Basic Google Chrome And Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts 2105

Friends, in this post I will be sharing the about the basic Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts. I thought that these shortcut keys will surely help you all in many ways, therefore, I am sharing these shortcut keys you all. See, the main purpose of sharing the shortcut key is to save your precious time and help you all in doing more and more work in less time. By this way, you will work faster on the internet.

What are shortcut keys?

See, first of all, you all should know what are shortcut keys. Shortcut keys are generally the keys of the keyboard. The work done with the mouse can be done by pressing these keys in a combination. As for an example if we want to close any running application on windows, then if we click on Alt+f4 key then the program will be closed. This way there are many of them, which will surely save our time. Secondly, shortcut keys are generally associated with the combination of two or more than two keyboard keys. Also, generally Ctrl and ALT keys are used as one of the keys in the combination.

How are the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox shortcut keys will be beneficial?

Now, you all will think that how these shortcut keys will help us more. You all can say that why we will use these keys. We are okay with the mouse and the time taken by the mouse is almost the same with respect to the shortcut keys. But, let me tell you that if you use these shortcut keys then you will surely see the difference. Also, I will tell you a major advantage of these shortcut keys with a very good example. 

Suppose, I am surfing the internet and I have opened many tabs and doing different works on them. Then, by mistake I have closed one of the tabs that are in use and I have to open it again. So, I have two options or two choices. Either I will open history and then search the desired page and will open it or we have another smart and quick option. I will press the keys ctrl+shift+t. By pressing it, the page which was accidentally closed by us will open. Well, isn't this interesting and good?  Well, many of us didn't know the above shortcut used. But still there is no problem. Now onwards, you will know all the shortcut keys of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Shortcut keys of Google Chrome

Shortcut Keys	Description
Alt + Home	Open your home page.
Backspace or Alt + Left Arrow	Back a page.
Alt + Right Arrow	Forward a page.
F5	Refresh current page, frame, or tab.
F11	Display the current website in full-screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode.
Esc	Stop page or download from loading.
Ctrl + (- or +)	Zoom in our out of a page '-' will decrease and '+' will increase. Ctrl + 0 will reset back to default.
Ctrl + 1-8	Pressing Ctrl and any number 1 through 8 will move to the corresponding tab in your tab bar.
Ctrl + 9	Switch to last tab.
Ctrl + Enter	Quickly complete an address. For example, type trickaholic in the address bar and press CTRL + ENTER to get http://www.trickaholic.com.
Ctrl + Shift + Del	Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private data.
Ctrl + D	Add a bookmark for the page currently opened.
Ctrl + Shift + O	Open the Bookmark manager.
Ctrl + J	Display the download window.
Ctrl + K or Ctrl + E	Move the cursor to the browser address bar.
Ctrl + N	Open New browser window.
Ctrl + Shift + N	Open a new window in incognito mode.
Ctrl + P	Print current page or frame.
Ctrl + T	Opens a new tab.
Ctrl + F4 or Ctrl + W	Closes the currently selected tab.
Ctrl + Shift + T	Undo the close of a window.
Ctrl + Tab	Moves through each of the open tabs.
Spacebar	Moves down a page at a time.
Shift + Spacebar	Moves up a page at a time.
Alt + Down arrow	Display all previous text entered in a text box and available options on drop down menu.

Shortcut keys of Mozilla Firefox

Shortcut Keys	Description
Alt + Home	Open your home page.
Alt + Left Arrow	Back a page.
Alt + Right Arrow	Forward a page.
F5	Refresh current page, frame, or tab.
F11	Display the current website in full screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode.
Esc	Stop page or download from loading.
Ctrl + (- or +)	Increase or decrease the font size, pressing '-' will decrease and '+' will increase. Ctrl + 0 will reset back to default.
Ctrl + Enter	Quickly complete an address. For example, type trickaholic in the address bar and press CTRL + ENTER to get http://www.trickaholic.com.
Ctrl + Shift + Del	Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private data.
Ctrl + D	Add a bookmark for the page currently opened.
Ctrl + I	Display available bookmarks.
Ctrl + J	Display the download window.
Ctrl + K or Ctrl + E	Move the cursor to the search box.
Ctrl + N	Open New browser window.
Ctrl + P	Print current page or frame
Ctrl + T	Opens a new tab.
Ctrl + F4 or Ctrl + W	Closes the currently selected tab.
Ctrl + Shift + T	Undo the close of a window.
Ctrl + Tab	Moves through each of the open tabs.
Spacebar	Moves down a page at a time.
Shift + Spacebar	Moves up a page at a time.
Alt + Down arrow	Display all previous text entered in a text box and available options on drop down menu.

You will notice that the shortcut keys of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the almost the same. Still, there are some of the changes. Use them and also share your views about the shortcut keys. If you will find any difficulty, then you all can comment below and ask your problems. I advise you to use these shortcut keys and make a habit of using them. Trust me, you will surely feel the difference. 

Final Words 

In the end, I just want to sum up the post. This post was about the basic shortcut keys of mozilla firefox and google chrome. The shortcut keys are really helpful and benificial for the people who spend most of theie time on internet or any tech geek. I hope you all liked this trick and you must share your views regarding this trick. Also if you have any confussion regarding this trick then your are free to ask. Thanks for visitng our site and stay tuned.