I am a lazy guy. I hate moving my hand away from the keyboard to the mouse and back. So I try to use as much keyboard shortcuts as possible. Here’s 2 ways I improve my productivity by avoiding device switches in Firefox:
Keyboard shortcuts
Here’s my personal Top 5 of keyboard shortcuts:
| 1. Ctrl+L | Move the focus to the location/URL field |
| 2. Ctrl+K | Move the focus to the search field |
| 3. Ctrl+H | Open the history |
| 4. Ctrl+F / F3 | Open the search. F3 repeats the last search |
| 5. Ctrl+T | Open a new tab |
You’ll find a lot more useful shortcuts here
Keywords for your bookmarks
To access my bookmarks quickly I usually use Ctrl+L and then type a keyword. n is our Nagios problem overview. c is our confluence homepage.
Combined with the search variable %s I have extremely fast wikipedia searches (wiki foo) or translations from German to English (leoe fahrvergnügen).
How to set it up? micrux.net tells you more.
Thanks, Patrice, for showing me this. You helped me save hours switching between mouse and keyboard.
Wicked!
I will try to keep them mind 🙂