Firefox shortcuts

Firefox shortcuts

As per my promise to give shortcut tips for Firefox in my previous post I am here with a list of shortcut keys and few useful tips that can enhance your Firefox experience.

As always I use these shortcuts to just save the time as gamers save the time to win the game with cheats. Here it’s not like cheat but it’s just a way to save the time. After these shortcuts your life would be very simple but I am not claming at all that these shortcuts will replace your mouse for browsing but I can assure you for this that these shortcuts will give you a different browsing experience that you have never before and your mouse use will reduce by 50 percent.

Firefox is itself a very big tool in itself so I am dividing it in few separate parts.

For starting firefox user windows+r then typefirefox and press enter. Firefox will get open.

For more run command and windows shortcut and keys visit my previous post

Toolbar Navigation

Alt+D or Ctrl+L = select the address bar type and go
Ctrl+K = select search bar in Firefox just type and search
Backspace or Alt+ left arrow = Back
Shift+Backspace or Alt+ Right arrow = Forward
Ctrl+up or down arrow = Change search engine ( this option would work after highlighting search engine option so before changing search engine please press Ctrl+k).
Up and down reflect next and previous.
Alt+Enter = open search in new tab.

Add com,org,net
I am too lazy to type full url like www.xyz.com so I just type xyz and I press ctrl+enter it takes me to www.xyz.com, we can use the same for .net and org domain also.
Ctrl+enter=.com
Shift+enter=.net
Ctrl+shift+enter=.org


Book Mark
Ctrl+D = book mark current tab page.
Ctrl+shift+D= bookmark all open tab.
Ctrl+shift+B= Organize bookmark It will open a new window to organize the bookmark tabs.
Ctrl+B = Show the bookmark search side bar.
Alt+B= Show the bookmark in menu.

Tabs
Ctrl+T = Open a new tab.
Ctrl+w = Close the front tab
Ctrl+f4 =Close the front tab.
Ctrl+shift+t= Undo last close tab (very useful if you closed a tab by mistake)
Ctrl+tab= Switch to next tab.
Ctrl+ (1-9) = Select tab from one to nine.
Ctrl+u = open source of the tab.

Find
Ctrl+F= find the word in page.
(Alt+N=Move to next match
Alt+P=Prvious Match
Alt+A=Highlight All Match) these three option work after Ctrl+F.
/ = find the link in the page and at hit of enter it will open up in new tab or same tab. If it’s not opening in new tab and you want to open it in new tab use
Ctrl+Enter to open link in new tab.
‘ = find the link.


Few shortcut those cant be in any category
Ctrl+j=show downloads bar
Ctrl+shift+del=clear private data
F11 =view in full screen mode
Esc=stop loading page

I hope this was useful

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Make a shortcut for shutdown logoff and restart on Desktop

Make a shortcut for shutdown logoff and restart

Many people have a question why they cannot get a shortcut for shutdown or restart or for logoff my question is who said you cannot get it. You can get it, and it’s as easy as making a shortcut of your folder or file from any location. Here is the method for shutdown, restarts and hibernate shortcuts. You can call these options from your run panel also.


1) Process for making shortcut.
a. Rite Click àNewàShortcut.

b. It will open a shortcut window
c. In its location name type the following commands for shutdown, restart or logoff and click on next. It will create a desktop shortcut and you can simply use these shortcuts to restart, logout or shutdown your pc.

2) Commands are
a. For shutdown: “shutdown -s –t 0 –f”.
b. For Restart: “shutdown –r –t 0 –f”
c. For logoff : “logoff”
Here
–s stand for shutdown
-r stand for restart
–t stand for the time
0 stands for 0 second you can change your seconds to shutdown default is 30 second
-f stand for forceful execution of the command if anything is running background it will close that without asking to you.


3) You can call these shortcuts from your run panel also so no need of click on desktop twice its procedure is very simple. Here is a detailed post for making any file,folder and program shortcut
a. Give a desired name to these shortcuts. (Make sure these name are not commands already there you can test those name by running on run panel.)
b. Copy these shortcuts in C:\Windows\System32.
c. Call these commands from run any time.


4) You can change these shortcuts icon also in very simple way.
a. Rite clik on shortcut and go to properties
b. Slect shortcut tab
c. Change icon and choose your desired icon.
d. It’s done


I would recommend you to test these shutdown icons only when you are not running anything serious so if you shutdown your computer in temptation of testing these shortcuts you will not lose any working data.

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Shortcut keys and Commands for Windows

Shortcut keys and Commands

Many of my friends ask to me how could I work so fast and they ask this because they don’t know many shortcut commands or they don’t use it. My simple answer to them is shortcuts, but sometimes they ask me what shortcuts are they and I have no answer because I cannot name each and every shortcut at a time. Before few time someone asked me that I should go ahead and post it on my blog and I said ok because I found it good and useful for my blog and I feel happy when I am giving some good content over my blog for my readers.

Before one month back I posted a list of few very useful network commands now I am here with some shortcut with details for day to day usage. Hope It would be useful for all.

It took me almost 2 hour to write this post as it was very difficult to get from my hundreds of commands which one is useful for all.

All Windows basic keyboard shortcut
1) Alt+f4 : Close the windows
2) Alt+space+n : Minimise current window
3) Alt+space+c : Close this window
4) Alt+space+m : Move this window ( after this command with the help of arrow key you can move the window anywhere in the screen without touching mouse).
5) Alt+space+r : restore the windows ( with this you can restore the window in half screen view)
6) Alt+space+x: maximize the window to full screen mode.
7) Ctrl+shit+esc : windows task manger
8) Ctrl+c : to copy some thing
9) Ctrl+x: to cut some thing
10) Ctrl+v : to paste some thing
11) Alt+tab : Move to next window.
12) Alt+shift+tab: Move to last window
13) Windows+d: show the desktop (if you press same button again all window will come back to its original state. Keep in mind it’s not minimised its hidden).
14) Ctrl+z: undo the last change that you do( how many undo you can do is program dependent.
15) Ctrl+y: redo the last undo that you did.
16) Alt+enter: properties window of selected item.
17) Windows+e : explorer view for my computer.
18) Ctrl+p: print the document
19) Alt+print screen: screenshot capture of only selected window
20) Ctrl+end : reach to end of the document
21) Ctrl+home: reach to the start of the document
22) Ctrl+arrow : move one word ahead or back
23) Ctrl+tab: move to next in internal window
24) Ctrl+shift+tab: move to back in internal window

For Opening programs in windows from run penal few commands are here
1) Winword: open MS word all version
2) Excel : open MS Excel spreadsheet
3) Outlook: open MS outlook
4) Powerpnt: open MS power point
5) Msimn: open outlook express(in windows XP or 2003)
6) Iexplore: open internet explorer
7) Firefox: Open Firefox
8) Calc: open calculator
9) Mspaint: open mspaint
10) Notepad : open notepad
11) Regedit: open registry editor
12) Control : open control panel
13) Appwiz.cpl: open add remove program window.
14) Ctrl+shift+esc: open task manager
15) Windows+pasue/break:Open Sytem Properties
16) Esc : for closing yahoo chatting window
17) Cmd: open command prompt
18) Msconfig : open system configuration utility
19) Wmplayer:open Windows Media player

These are most useful commands that I shown here other than these command I use ample amount of other commands also that are not very useful for day to day simple user but for those who are computer admin I will post a long list for that would cover lot more than this.

Along with this I would like to take you back to my previous post where I explained how to make a program shortcut to start from run panel. Please visit here for how to make run shortcut

I will soon come with shortcut keys for Firefox users that could make internet browsing life easier.

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Start application from Run panel

It’s always good to open a program in Windows XP by just pressing ctrl+r à program command and enter, but it’s not applicable for all the programs like yahoo messenger or Google talk pr any program that you use. If it’s not their by default but we can make a shortcut easily to create shortcut of those applications. Here is process for creating a shortcut to start application from run command.

1) Make a short cut of application that you want to use from run.

2) For making shortcut either use create new shortcut wizard of windows or go to the exe location of that particular program. Suppose you want to use yahoo messenger than go to C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger rite click on YahooMessenger.exe and click on send to desktop option.

3) It will create a shortcut of yahoomessager.exe on your desktop. Rename it to your desired name. I gave name AP yahoo.

4) Now copy this shortcut and paste it into c:\windows\system32

5) Press windows and then type APyahoo and enter. It will start your yahoo messenger.

6) You can make shortcut for any program that you want even for your particular file by this method

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