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Make your browsing better with these shortcuts


Shortcuts make your life easier while you are on computer. Your work becomes more simple and fun when you use shortcuts while browsing the internet. You can do your job with ease and more efficiency if you make use of most of the shortcuts. And the best way to memorize these shortcuts is SIMPLY USING THEM. In the beginning you can create a list and put up that list on your Desktop. Whenever you are going to use Internet, go through these shortcuts and try to use at least two of the new shortcuts. In this way by using them everyday you will memorize them by heart easily. 

(These are common shortcuts for Chrome and Mozilla Firefox)

Ctrl + T:  Open new tab
Ctrl + N:: Open new browser window
Ctrl + F4: Close the current tab
Ctrl + Tab: Toggle among open tabs.
Ctrl + 1-9:
Pressing Ctrl and any number 1 through 9 will move to the corresponding tab in your tab bar.
Ctrl + H = Show history
Ctrl + J
= Open Downloads window
Ctrl + K/E = Move the cursor to Search Box
Ctrl + (+ or -): To zoom in or zoom out 
Ctrl + D: Add a bookmark
Ctrl + I: Display Available bookmarks

Spacebar: Moves down a page at a time.
Shift + Spacebar Moves up a page at a time.


Alt + Right Arrow: Go forward
Alt +Left Arrow: Go back.
Alt + Down arrow
Display all previous entered texts in a text abox and available options on
Alt + D: Select all text in the address bar
F6: Move cursor to Address bar.F5: To refresh the current page.
F11: To go to full screen mode and use it again to go back to normal mode.

Esc: Stop page from loading or stop downloading

If am missing any important shortcut, please write it in comment.

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