What's Your Most Essential Firefox Keyboard Shortcut?


	What's Your Most Essential Firefox Keyboard Shortcut?

Scattered_Fusion

3-9-2008 3:56 AM

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3-9-2008 6:05 AM

merrie

I use U to return to Inbox (Gmail) and Y for archive the
email.

3-9-2008 12:58 PM

Rustee

For me it's prolly just Ctrl + F, but that's not totally Firefox unique.

3-10-2008 11:46 AM

maheshcha

CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER = http://WWW and .ORG to word in URL bar

ALT + SHIFT + ENTER = http://WWW and .NET to word in URL bar

ATRL + ALT + ENTER = to open typed address in new tab

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