Mozilla Firefox keyboard shortcuts
Updated: 09/12/2023 by Computer Hope
Below is a listing of all the major shortcut keys for Mozilla Firefox on a Microsoft Windows computer. See the computer shortcut page if you are looking for other shortcut keys used in other programs.
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If the following list is too overwhelming, see: Top 10 Firefox shortcut keys everyone should know.
Shortcut keys | Description |
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F5 | Refresh current page, frame, or tab. |
F11 | Display the current website in fullscreen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode. |
Esc | Stop page or download from loading. |
Spacebar | Moves down a page at a time. |
Alt+Home | Open your homepage. |
Alt+Shift+B | Open the bookmarks in the file menu. |
Alt+↓ | Display all previous text entered in a text box and available options on drop-down menu. |
Alt+← | Back a page. |
Alt+→ | Forward a page. |
Ctrl+- | Zoom out of a web page and decrease font size (if supported). |
Ctrl++ | Zoom in on a web page and decrease font size (if supported). |
Ctrl+0 | Reset browser zoom to default. |
Ctrl+A | Selects all text. |
Ctrl+B | Open the Bookmarks in a sidebar, to view all bookmarks in Firefox. |
Ctrl+C | Copies selected text. |
Ctrl+D | Add a bookmark for the page currently opened. |
Ctrl+E | Move the cursor to the search box. |
Ctrl+F | Access the Find option, to search for any text on the currently open web page. |
Ctrl+G | Advance to the next result of a search performed with Ctrl+F. Press Ctrl+Shift+G to return to a previous search result. |
Ctrl+H | View browsing history in sidebar. To open the history in a window press Ctrl+Shift+H. |
Ctrl+I | Display the Page Info window about the web page currently being viewed. |
Ctrl+J | Display the download window. |
Ctrl+K | Move the cursor to the search box. |
Ctrl+L | Move cursor to address box. |
Ctrl+N | Open New browser window. |
Ctrl+O | Access the Open File window to open a file in Firefox. |
Ctrl+P | Print current page or frame. |
Ctrl+T | Opens a new tab. |
Ctrl+U | View a web page's source code. |
Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W | Closes the currently selected tab. |
Ctrl+F5 | Refresh the page, ignoring the Internet cache (force full refresh). |
Ctrl+Enter | Quickly complete an address. For example, type computerhope in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to get https://www.computerhope.com. |
Ctrl+PgDn | Open the browser tab to the right. |
Ctrl+PgUp | Open the browser tab to the left. |
Ctrl+Tab | Moves through each of the open tabs (left to right). Doing Ctrl+Shift+Tab reverses the direction (right to left). |
Ctrl+Shift+Delete | Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private data. |
Ctrl+Shift+B | Toggle the bookmarks bar between hidden and shown. |
Ctrl+Shift+H | Open the history in a window instead of a sidebar like Ctrl+H. |
Ctrl+Shift+J | Open the Browser Console to troubleshoot an unresponsive script error. See:How to fix an unresponsive script error. |
Ctrl+Shift+M | Open responsive mode in the Firefox developer tools. |
Ctrl+Shift+O | Open Other Bookmarks in a separate window. |
Ctrl+Shift+P | Open a new private browsing window. |
Ctrl+Shift+T | Undo the close of a tab. |
Ctrl+Shift+W | Close the Firefox browser window. If multiple tabs are open in the Firefox window you'll get a prompt before Firefox closes. |
Shift+spacebar | Moves up a page at a time. |