Keyboard shortcuts are a smart way of improving your productivity while surfing. Check this post: why keyboard shortcuts are important.
Bookmarks: If you love bookmarks just press CTRL+I to open or close the bookmarks sidebar
To go to your default browser home page (the page that displays when Mozilla Firefox is launched) press ALT + Home. If for instance Google Kenya(http://www.google.co.ke) is your homepage, this image shows what shortcut will revoke.
Downloads: almost everyone who surfs needs to download a file or two..press CTRL+J to access Mozilla download manager which a displays a list of all files downloaded. Double click to open the file or right-click and go the containing folder.
Find: Ever thought of finding a single or a phrase within the current webpage? Comfortably press CTRL+F and the find tool bar(shown in the image below) will pop up, usually at bottom-left of your browser window. Further, press ALT+N to find next, SHIFT+F3 to find previous and F3 to find again.
Mozilla Firefox is integrated with a number of nice search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft’s Bing among others. Forget about moving your cursor to the search box then clicking then…all those tasks! Simply press CTRL+K to instantly jump to the search box and type your search keywords.
To toggle between your favorite search engine press ALT+DOWN /UP ARROW
Finally to access the menus and their dropdown lists on the menu bar press CTRL+(the first letter of the menu name) For example to open the file dropdown menu press CTRL+F, to access the edit menu press CTRL+E e.t.c.
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