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 Tip 3: Internet Explorer and Firefox shortcuts
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Internet Explorer and Firefox shortcuts
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  1. Ctrl+D adds the current page to your Favorites/Bookmarks file.

  2. Alt+Home takes you directly to your home page. (IE and Firefox)

  3. Use the Tab key to jump your cursor to the next entry in a form or the next section of a Web page. (IE and Firefox)

  4. Ctrl+F launches Find for the page you're on. (IE and Firefox; Firefox's implementation is particularly cool, as it scans the page for the term you want as you type)

  5. F11 shifts between regular and full-screen views of your browser window. (IE and Firefox)

  6. F5 or Ctrl+R refreshes the page you're on. (IE and Firefox)

  7. ESC stops downloading a page. (IE and Firefox)

  8. Ctrl+T opens up a new tab and puts your cursor in the URL field, in Firefox. Ctrl+L puts your cursor in the URL field and highlights the current text, while Ctrl+Tab does the same for IE.

  9. Ctrl+W closes a tab in Firefox or the current window in IE.

  10. Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- increases or decreases the text size in Firefox.

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Patrick Norton Submitted by:
Patrick Norton
Former tech-help show host
 Patrick Norton has written more than 500 product reviews for print and online. For fun, he loves to sit in hot corners of the desert waiting to fuel and repair off-road race trucks. He's best known for answering tough tech questions, helping folks avoid awful products, and smashing dead PCs with a sledgehammer during a four-year stretch cohosting TechTV's The Screen Savers.
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