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Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Lifehacker reposted a few Firefox keyboard shortcuts, but one is misleading (or just plain wrong depending on how you interpret it) and another is redundant. Because they don’t allow comments over there at Lifehacker, which is a fine blog in many respects, I’ll make my corrections here.

First, on a PC, why bother using Alt+D to bring focus to the addres bar when you can just click F6? In fact, F6 is what Internet Explorer users would be familar with, thus, we have another reason why it’s easy to switch from IE to Firefox.

Second, they claim you can substitue Alt with the Apple key on OS X. Not true in the case of Alt+D. If you type Apple+D in Firefox on OS X, you open the Add Bookmark dialog. Try Apple+L and you’ll bring focus to the address bar.

Also, it doesn’t appear to me that Command+Enter appends ‘www’ and ‘.com’ to whatever you type into the Firefox address bar on OS X.

In Browsers, Web on 28 March 2005 with 3 comments

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