In these days of Laptops, people may find it very difficult to control the cursor by touchpad specially when you are migrated from a desktop. Look at me! it took me about 6 months to get used to the touchpad and still I have some problems.

I was looking for some way where I don’t have to use the touchpad while browsing the internet. As I use Mozilla Firefox 3 (I don’t hate IE :p) for all of my browsing needs, I was looking for some solutions like an addon or plugin.

I found this on the official mozilla plugin site and find it really interesting. I though I should give it a try and installed it. It really a wonderful plugin if you get used to it (I hope, as I am still trying to learn the basic functions). What it do is fragment the entire webpage into small boxes with a unique id to each of them. If you want to navigate, you just have to type the id of the corresponding link you want to navigate and hit enter. Nice Tool, indeed.

But, it doesn’t cover the basic needs of the browser like opeing a new tab or navigate through tabs, open a new window etc. So, I was again looking for help and find some keyboard shorcuts for FireFox 3. Here are some of them which comes handy while surfing.

1. Ctrl+N : Opens up a new Window
2. Ctrl+T : Opens up a new Tab
3. Alt+Tab : Navigates trough the Opened Windows
4. Ctrl+Tab : Navigates through the Tabs in a Window
5. Alt+D : To go to the location/address bar
6. Ctrl+K : To go to the default search bar after opeing a new window or tab
7. Ctrl+F : To bring out the Inpage Search box to quickly find something in the opened webpage
8. Ctrl+D : To Bookmark a webpage
9. F5 : To reload a page (Ctrl+F5 : To reload a page overriding the cache)

These shotcuts are really helpful for quick browsing without using mouse ot touchpad.

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