Share your web browsing shortcuts

nrg_alpha

We all have our web browsing workflow. Many common keyboard / mouse shortcuts seems to work well across many browsers...

More out of curiosity than anything else.. what kind of shortcuts do you use? Sure, we can list all the shortcuts browsers are capable of.. but I'm curious as to those you actually use on a daily basis.

Here is a small list of mine:

Obviously, Ctrl + c and Ctrl + v for cut and paste (this is a no-brainer).
Instead of Ctrl + LMB to open a link in a new tab, I simply middle mouse click the link.
Instead of using 'Page Up' or 'Page Dn' to jump straight to the top or bottom of pages respectively, I use 'Shift + space Bar' and 'Space bar' alternatively.
I used to use 'Backspace' to go back one page, now I simply use 'Alt + left arrow' instead. ('Alt + right arrow' to go forward in your history).
Ctrl + T for a new tab.
'Tab' to jump fields and 'Enter' to submit.
'Esc' in the event something seems to be taking a while (a stuck loop perhaps?..Admittedly, this is not a key used daily)

Cheers,

NRG

cahva

Those are the shortcuts I also use. One that I've added is a bookmark shortcut to php manual. This works atleast in Firefox:

Address: http://www.php.net/%s
Shortcut: php

So when I write "php fopen" it opens manual page for fopen for example. Very handy 🙂

nrg_alpha

cahva;10888910 wrote:
Those are the shortcuts I also use. One that I've added is a bookmark shortcut to php manual. This works atleast in Firefox:

Address: http://www.php.net/%s
Shortcut: php

So when I write "php fopen" it opens manual page for fopen for example. Very handy 🙂

Ah, nice idea 🙂 I have grown fond of chrome though.. so at the moment, I am not using FF. Is that link supposed to point to a valid location on it's own? I get a 400 Bad Request error... Perhaps I'm missing something?

cahva

That might be a firefox thingie only. Well in firefox when you add a bookmark, you can specify shortcut to the url and %s is replaced whatever you write after "php ". So when I write "php fopen", that link will become http://www.php.net/fopen