alexgibson / firefox-shortcuts

A curated list of useful Firefox shortcuts 🔥🦊

Firefox Shortcuts

A curated list of useful Firefox shortcuts 🔥🦊

Browsing

• Focus Location bar: cmd + L or f6.
• Reload (override cache): cmd + shift + R.
• Stop loading: cmd + . or esc.
• Find in page: cmd + F or / for quick find.
• Back: cmd + [.
• Forward: cmd + ].
• Screenshot: cmd + shift + S ✨

Tabs & windows

• Close tab: cmd + W.
• Undo closed tab: cmd + shift + T (saves my 🥓 every day!).
• Undo closed window: cmd + shift + N.
• Cycle through tabs in recently used order: ctrl + tab (enable in about:preferences).
  • Cycle backwards: ctrl + shift + tab.
• Open new Private Window: cmd + shift + P.

Awesome Bar

• Add ^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
• Add * to search for matches in your bookmarks.
• Add % to search for matches in your currently open tabs ⚡️.
• Add # to search for matches in page titles.

Dev Tools

• Open Dev Tools: cmd + shift + I or f12
• Open Web console: option + cmd + K.
• Open Inspector: option + cmd + C.
• Toggle Responsive Design view: option + cmd + M.
• View source: cmd + U.

Page Inspector

• Toggle edit as HTML: f2 when highlighting a DOM node.
• Scroll the selected DOM node into view: s.

CSS Inspector

• Open MDN reference page about currently highlighted property 🔥: f1.

Reference

• Full list of developer shortcuts: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Keyboard_shortcuts