Tabbed browsing, shortcuts to the rescue

5 May 2006

I am a tabbed browser junkie, yea that's what you can call me. I totally love the hassel free and cluster free browsing that the browsers today provide, quite unlike the ealier one I used IE 6 a pain to have so many windows open at one and the navigation was just too patethic.

I do know that there was Netscape but I hated for its junk looks also Mozilla which I didn't use much earlier, but with Firefox and later IE7 and Flock I can't live with those tabbed browsers, they make my life so easier.

I thought to share some of the shortcuts which has made my life a bit easier with the tabbed browsing.

I have generalized the shortcuts into three categories Firefox and Flock only, IE7 only and all tabbed browsers.

Here are those keyboard shortcuts for all tabbed browsers

Open links in a new tab in the background   CTRL+click
Open links in a new tab in the foreground   CTRL+SHIFT+click
Open a new tab in the foreground          CTRL+T
Switch between tabs                  CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Close all tabs                  ALT+F4
Close other tabs                  CTRL+Alt+F4

Firefox Specific Only

Switch to a specific tab number CTRL+n (n can be 1-9) (over 9 it does not work in Firefox and Flock)
Close current tab CTRL+W

IE 7 related

Open a new tab from the address bar         ALT+ENTER
Open a new tab from the Toolbar Search Box ALT+ENTER
Open Quick Tabs (thumbnail view)            CTRL+Q
Switch to a specific tab number             CTRL+n (n can be 1-8)
Switch to the last tab                      CTRL+9

Mouse shortcuts

Open a link in a background tab          Middle mouse button on a link
Open a new tab                      Double click on empty tab row space
Close a tab                      Middle mouse button on the tab

So here is to enjoying a better browsing experience, I couldn't cover Opera as I actually don't use it, but will try and use it soon.

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