I have been frustrated for some time – having to click to change tabs in firefox as opposed to using a alt-tab like solution for changing tabs. However today whilst using my wifes laptop – with a slightly different keyboard layout than mine, i accidently discovered that Ctrl + tab will change the tab you are viewing in firefox!
Keyboard Shortcut to change tabs in Firefox
October 4th, 2008 by dcouper · 8 Comments
Tags: Web Browsers
8 responses so far ↓
1 Bill Hutchison // Oct 5, 2008 at 1:34 am
Hi Mate. Glad you finally figured this out. That key combo works in most other browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari.
It is certainly a convenient keyboard shortcut to change tabs…
2 David Couper // Oct 5, 2008 at 9:07 am
It has always annoyed me – cause I could never figure it out – no one I work with knew it either…we are probably all just slow!!
3 Alex Costa // Oct 13, 2008 at 11:05 am
Ctrl + F4 = Close tab
Ctrl + W = Close Tab
Ctrl + T = New Tab
Ctrl + N = New Window
Crtl + O = Open a local file
Crtl + P = Print
Ctrl + F = Search (find)
Crtl + G = Find Again
Ctrl + R = Refresh
Ctrl + U = Show Source Code
Ctrl + L = Select address bar to input URL
Ctrl + Shift + R = Clear cache and reload page
Ctrl + Shift + H = Show History
Ctrl + Shift + Delete = Clear private data
My 2 cents
4 Andrew // Nov 6, 2008 at 9:11 am
Hey M8 -
That really was a time saving tip that you could possibly even sell. Anyone know the shortcut for how to return to previous tab opened…
Cheers.
5 David Couper // Nov 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm
go to http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Printable.html for all firefox short cuts.
my favourite is Ctrl + 1-9 and it goes to that tab number.
6 Nick // Dec 18, 2008 at 1:51 am
Ctrl+Shift+tab shift through tabs backwards
7 renzon // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:34 am
wow. this was really work
8 gordon // May 18, 2010 at 8:02 am
Thanks a million times. i’va always wanted to be able to do this, it also works in IE8
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