Firefox Tips

This collection of Firefox tips will help you to make the most of your browsing experience. Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source web browser that claims nearly 24% market share. Firefox has hundreds of extensions and features beyond the traditional web browsing experience.

Tips

Maximize screen space: press F11 for full screen view.
Reduce icon size: improve room on the page by going to the menu item - View - Toolbars - Customize and select the “Use small icons” check box
Find anything quickly on the page: CTRL-F (Windows, Linux) or CMD-F (Mac), type the text you're trying to find and press enter.
Go to a new URL super fast: CTRL-L (Windows, Linux) or CMD-L (Mac), type your new URL and press enter.
Increase text size: CTRL plus = (Windows, Linux) or CMD plus = (Mac). Can be increased multiple times.
Decrease text size: CTRL plus - (Windows, Linux) or CMD plus - (Mac). Can be decreased multiple times.
Quickly reload a page: F5 refreshes the page.
Zoom to your home page: Alt-Home
Keyboard tabbing: If you have multiple tabs open, you can tab through them quickly by using CTRL-Tab (Windows, Linux) or CMD-Tab (Mac)

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