Question

What are your favorite/useful/most used shortcuts for Firefox?

Mine: Ctrl-L and Ctrl-T

Any useful dark corners a very few know about?

Answer 1

Ctrl+T - Open new tab

Ctrl+W - Close tab

Ctrl + Shift + T - reopen last closed tab

See a total list of Firefox keyboard shortcuts here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts

Answer 2

i used the / a lot.

Answer 3

Space & SHIFT+Space
Page down and Page up for quicker scrolling.

Answer 4

Alt + left and Alt + right for forward and back.

Answer 5

Ctrl + J to show downloads list.

Answer 6

Ctrl+l - To go to the URL bar (location bar).

Ctrl+k - To go to the search box.

Ctrl+Shift+p - for PRIVATE browsing ;-)

Answer 7

For keyboard warriors F7 puts Firefox in Caret browsing mode.

Answer 8

Ctrl-L opens the location bar (address bar),
(while in the address bar) I use extensively (typing the first few letters and then) scrolling through suggestions,
or just type the domain and press Ctrl-Enter (for .com) and Shift-Enter (for .net) to autocomplete it.

Ctrl-K opens the search bar,
(while in the search bar), Ctrl-Up/Down scrolls through the search engines.

Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown scrolls through tabs,
F11 gives me full screen

Answer 9

Not exactly not well known, but I love F5 for reloading the page. Ctrl + F5 for a complete reload.

Answer 10

CTRL + 1 to CTRL +9 to navigate tabs in order (alternate to CTRL + TAB )

Answer 11

F6 to focus the address bar.

Answer 12

Obviously alt with anything in the menu bar, but in particular alt-t-a to show addons list.

Answer 13

Ctrl + Shift + Del Clear Private Data

check here for more

Answer 14

Alt-F4 to help me get back to work :)

Answer 15

As a web developer, I use ctrl + u to view source.

Answer 16

Ctrl + F5 or Ctrl + Shift + R to reload and override the cache.

Answer 17

I like CTRL+SHIFT+t I always close the wrong tabs accidentally and then I need to get them open again.

CTRL+F to search in the browser text

CTRL+W to close the current tab

Answer 18

CTRL + + for Zoon In and CTRL + - for Zoom Out

Answer 19

Ctrl + Shift + T to reopen accidentally closed tab

Ctrl + Shift + N to reopen accidentally closed window

Answer 20

Ctrl + Enter to complete a .com address in the location bar.

Answer 21

Slightly off-topic but might be useful to the keyboard-lovers out there:

I use the Vimperator addon for Firefox. It adds Vim-like keyboard access to 98%* of your everyday browsing tasks. IMHO it's a must-have for Vim users and keyboard addicts.
_{* Special cases like Flash content or convoluted (multi-frame) layouts might force you to use your mouse.}

Vimperator, like Vim, tries to keep your fingers near the home row.
Here's a small sample of what it can do (preformatted text is typed exactly as shown):

Movement

j/k Scroll down/up
<Ctrl>f/<Ctrl>b Page down/up
<Ctrl>d/<Ctrl>u Half a page down/up
/ Search and highlight

Navigation

ogoogle.com<Enter> Open Google in the current tab
tgoogle.com<Enter> Open Google in a new tab
wgoogle.com<Enter> Open Google in a new window

Vimperator visually numbers all the links, buttons and controls on a page when you type f. You can then click a link by typing one of the numbers.

f30 Click on the 30th link
fcomments<Enter> Click on the first link containing 'comments'
fcomments2<Enter> Click on the second link containing 'comments'

Tabs

bgmail<Enter> Go to next tab whose title contains 'gmail'
gt Go to the next tab
3gt Go to the 3rd tab
d Close the current tab
3d Close the current tab and the next 2 tabs
u Undo close tab

Answer 22

Also Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to scroll tabs.