Hello everybody!
This video will tell you about hot keys or key sequences in such browsers as Google Chrome,
Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge.
I will show you the key sequences which I find most interesting and useful, where to
learn them, how to change and assign them.
Here we go.
In one of the previous videos we had a look at Windows key sequences and how to assign
or change them.
Find the link in the description:
Let’s start with tabs.
If you’ve opened many tabs while working in the browser, press Ctrl+1-8 to select the
one you need without using the mouse.
It switches the screen to the tab corresponding to the number of the key you press (1 takes
you to the first tab and so on).
Pressing Ctrl+9 will take you to the last tab.
Using Ctrl + Tab takes you to the next tab, that is, one step to the right.
To go one step back to the left, press Ctrl+Shift+Tab The shortcut Ctrl+W will close the current
tab.
If you closed a tab by accident and you want to have it back, the combination Ctrl+Shift+T
opens the last closed tab.
Or several of them, one by one.
The next step is navigation.
The most well-known navigation button in any browser must be F5.
You can use it to refresh the active page.
It is useful when expecting an update on a certain page, or an important email.
To return to the previous page, press Alt+Left Arrow.
Alt+Right Arrow is an opposite command that sends you to the next page.
If you want to stop the page that’s downloading, press Escape.
Loading the page will stop.
Key sequence Alt+Home quickly opens the browser homepage.
To zoom in or out, hold Ctrl and press + or -. You can also do it by moving the scrolling
wheel while holding down Ctrl.
Ctrl+0 (zero) takes you back to the original scaling.
Working with large webpages can turn using the scrolling wheel into a tiresome exercise.
Yet it can be avoided.
By simply pressing Page Down or Page Up, you can quickly move the page one screen up or
down.
All respectable websites usually have a button to take you back to the top of the page.
Just like our website.
If there is no such button, press Home.
The webpage will jump to the beginning.
In order to get to the bottom of the webpage, press End.
Sometimes links to webpages can be very long.
It makes it difficult to select them with a mouse.
To quickly select a link to an active page or any other text in the address bar, press
Alt+D. After that, you can copy and paste it by pressing Ctrl+С and Ctrl+V, accordingly.
One more thing about links.
If you are in a page which you wouldn’t like to close, but you want to open a link
in a new tab, put the mouse cursor on it and left-click while holding down Ctrl.
If there is no search field attached to your browser window, and you need to find a word
or phrase in this page, press Ctrl+F.
This shortcut starts a search tool in the current page.
Just enter the word you’re looking for in the search field and find the one you need
using arrow keys.
The browser history log is quite deep in the menu.
But to view history, just press Ctrl+H. The same applies to downloads.
Ctrl+J – Open downloads.
To start a tool cleaning history, cache and downloads, press Ctrl+Shift+Del
Another one is for advanced users.
Press Ctrl+U to view current webpage code.
This is only a small share of browser hotkeys.
I tried to show only those working with most browsers in the top list.
If you are interested, go to the description to find links to official webpages offering
all possible key sequences for the most popular browsers:
There are different ways to change the standard browser shortcuts.
In Google Chrome, these are extensions installed from the browser’s online store.
For example: Hotkeys or Shortkeys.
In the same way, key sequences can be changed in Mozilla Firefox.
Users often recommend: Key config or Dorando keyconfig.
You can find the links to the corresponding extensions in the description.
Opera features a built-in option to change or assign key sequences.
To do it: • Go to Settings / Browser / Shortcuts / Configure
shortcuts • In the menu that opens find the necessary
action and assign a shortcut you like.
• To do it, click on the field “Type a shortcut” and press the key sequence.
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