Simple clear advice in plain English

Use keyboard shortcuts in Mozilla Firefox

Master Firefox with these helpful shortcuts

Alt and Home
Return to your home page

F5, Ctrl and F5
F5 reloads the page, Ctrl and F5 forces Firefox to download every part of the page again

Ctrl and +, Ctrl and ­–
Zoom in and out of a document

’ (apostrophe)
Find links in a page. Start typing and Firefox will show matches as you do so

Ctrl and T
Open a new tab

Ctrl, Shift and D
Bookmark all the open tabs

Ctrl and J
Open the Downloads window to see the progress of downloads and find old downloads

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