Firefox and other Browser Keyboard Shortcuts (Comparison Table)

Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

1. The area with red text under Mouse Shortcuts can be reversed to match other Browsers, select Tools → Options → Tabs → [x] When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately.  This is the same setting that can be changed by setting browser.tabs.loadInBackground to False to set focus on new tabs opened from links (load in foreground)
   So that bookmarks open the same way as links, these about:config settings should be *same* as each other:
   - browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground (default is False), controls focus of bookmarks opened in new tab
   - browser.tabs.loadInBackground (default is True), controls focus of links opened in new tab
2. Suggest not setting Middle-click to any Firefox or other browser specific behavior.  Best if middle-click is set in your system to Enter.  Works well from dialogs, and from entry areas such as search bar and Location (/address) Bar.  (Click on "Enter test").  See mouse.
3. See all Firefox and user added shortcuts with the "keyconfig" extension (Ctrl+Shift+F12) and to resolve conflicts, such as new in Fx3.1 Private Browsing (Ctrl+Shift+P conflicts with Adblock preferences).
4. The above table should be a complete list (close to 120) of built-in Firefox keyboard and mouse shortcuts, and about as many for each of the other browsers as well. 

Mouse shortcuts: Highlighting a word or sentences (double-click, triple-click) varies quite a bit depending on extension and possibly options.

For another day, find which browser and what options for showcase tab, show thumbnail of window, on link or tab, and how to remove it. Fx 3.6 drops tab dropdown list for horrid showcase as in some other browsers. One of the Firecase options is nglayout.enable_drag_images for image of a link.

Special Characters (#special)

SYMBOLS for HTML and Excel Use, includes an ASCII table.

Help Files -- Keyboard Shortcuts (#help)

• Firefox
• Keyboard shortcuts Firefox only (support.mozilla.com),  [compare to vintage Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts from 2008-02-12 with multiple browsers]
• See New Tab (David McRitchie), on Tabs Page (Tabbed Browsing in Firefox)
• Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts (Otto de Voogd)
• keyconfig extension allow you to see all keyboard shortcuts, and resolve conflicting keyboard shortcuts.  (author's site, and Documentation)
• Mouse Usage in Firefox (David McRitchie)
• Mouse tips (mozillazine.org)
• Mozilla Firefox Cheatsheet (Leslie Franke), one page PDF list of keyboard shortcuts plus a few other features.  [HTML version]
• Keyword Shortcuts (David McRitchie), create your own bookmarked keywords
• Planet Mozilla (pm:), Firefox bloggers.
• MAC only: On the trackpad (3 finger multi-touch), Mozilla includes multi-touch support in Firefox 3.1b2 for Macs (I guess Macs still only have one key)
• Firefox 3.1 Restricts, Matches, Keywords | edilee, in the Smart Location Bar such as restricting results to show only your history (and not your unvisited bookmarks) or matching only in the URL instead of also in the title.
• Internet Explorer
• Internet Explorer 7 Quick Reference Guide
• IEBlog : Keyboard Changes in Beta 3
• IEBlog (Internet Explorer Team Blog)
• IE7Pro, an all-in-one add-on for both IE7 and IE8 can add keyboard shortcuts and may remove/change others.  If installed Ctrl+Shift+T must be restored via IE7Pro.
• Opera
• Opera Help:  Keyboard shortcuts (opera.com)
• Safari
• Safari Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows): Safari Books Online
• Desktop Team - by Opera Desktop Team (blog)
• Google Chrome browser
• Google Chrome Shortcuts | Google Chrome
• Google set to introduce its own Web browser | Reuters
• Blog: Gaurav Mishra Insights, see Sept 12, 2008
• The Complete Guide to Make You An Ultimate Google Chrome Jedi Warrior
• Firefox can be made to look and act like Chrome see Featured Download: Turn Firefox into Chrome with ff2gchrome – I Stuff, Make?
• To find more blogs for your browser, do a Google Search...
    <your browser> blog bloggers

Additional Browser Comparisons (#compare)

• Bookmarklets - Browser support

Firefox Extensions (#ext)

Firefox Extensions can add quite a number of keyboard shortcuts, two listings were grabbed on 2008-07-12 in Firefox 3.0 both were created with the "keyconfig" extension and placed into text files with help from SnagIt® Software.  The list without extensions can be compared to the same listing with extensions (these are both text listings).

The Launchy extension can be used to look at the page you are viewing in Firefox on a Windows system with another browser or other applications from context menu, tools menu or from a Toolbar button.  I prefer the toolbar button if it's the page I want to see elsewhere, but for objects within the page you would have to access Launchy through the context menu.

The PageDiff extension can be used to compare the two text listings, one without extensions, to the other with extensions, both text listings are in alphabetical order by keyboard shortcut.

You can use the Split Browser extension to place an alphabetical by shortcut listing (without extensions) to the right hand side of this listing, so you can see two different views.

TableTools allows you to sort a table such as on this page by any column, and to filter the table.  Table2Clipboard allows one to select and copy rows, columns or the entire table to paste into Excel, OpenOffice, or CSV for plain text.

The extensions I use are listed on my home page, and you can get an idea of which are probably in use from my InfoLister Listing.

Related   (#related)

• Firefox Customizations (Notes)
• Keyboard shortcuts for Windows (KB 126449)
• Tab Capacity Test and other Tab related tests, can be used to test "Tab" related keyboard shortcuts.