You can shave significant time off your various viewing and navigational tasks in Firefox if you know a handful of keyboard shortcuts. A quick toggle (say, the History pane or Downloads dialog) or a speedy key combo that changes text size or jumps to your Home page is almost always going to be more efficient than searching for a button or menu command to do the job.
This is just a small, somewhat arbitrary selection of useful shortcuts. A comprehensive list of more than 70 Firefox shortcuts is available as a PDF download.
The shortcuts
| Action | Shortcut |
| Open the Home page | Alt + Home |
| Stop downloading a page | Esc |
| Increase text size | Ctrl + + (plus sign) |
| Decrease text size | Ctrl + – (minus sign) |
| Restore normal text size | Ctrl + 0 |
| Switch between full-screen/normal view | F11 |
| Refresh (override cache) | Ctrl + F5 |
| Open/close the Bookmarks pane | Ctrl + B |
| Add a bookmark (defaults to the active page) | Ctrl + D |
| Open/close the History pane | Ctrl + H |
| Open/close the Downloads dialog box | Ctrl + J |
| Refresh | Ctrl + R |
| Open a new tab in the current Firefox window | Ctrl + T |
| Add “www.” to the beginning and “.com” to the end of the text in the Location bar | Ctrl + Enter |
| Add “www.” to the beginning and “.org” to the end of the text in the Location bar | Ctrl + Shift + Enter |
| Add “www.” to the beginning and “.net” to the end of the text in the Location bar | Shift + Enter |
