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Keyboard Shortcut to change tabs in Firefox

October 4th, 2008 by · 19 Comments


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!

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19 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

  • 9 Nithyanand // Aug 27, 2010 at 5:12 am

    Thank you very much.. i was looking for this for many days but i didn’t try to search on the web..

    it’s too good to know this. it’s working gr8 on the IE8.

  • 10 hidaz // Nov 5, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    thanks a lot. can we change the keys for this work? for example Ctrl+Arrow up or down?

  • 11 surinder // Jan 13, 2011 at 9:47 am

    thanx ya… i hve been wanting to know about it.. it’s a time saving..

  • 12 Lopavit // Jan 16, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    Thank you! It’s very useful.

  • 13 cecen // Mar 29, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    thanks guys…
    its really useful…

  • 14 SO // Apr 21, 2011 at 12:48 am

    thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
    You guys made my day!!

  • 15 Troy // Apr 28, 2011 at 1:32 am

    holy shit iv been serching the net 4 this for some time now like 2 years finally its like magic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 16 Neiti // May 17, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    Drop the shift and go through forward :)

  • 17 Jonathan Bobal // Jul 20, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Great. I was looking for a way to manipulate the Tabs and Windows in Windows… These techniques and shortcuts are an amazing asset and I really appreciate them being available to the public! And yes, they work great in Chrome!

  • 18 Miss behavin // Aug 28, 2011 at 6:48 am

    You are a star! Thank you ever so much

  • 19 Tyler Interlichia // Oct 7, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    Thank You! Exactly what I was looking for. Much appreciation.

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