Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts for Windows

These are the keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Windows.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

The following tables show the various keyboard shortcuts for Windows. Where there is no equivalent keyboard shortcut, the field contains a dash. If there is no corresponding feature in the browser, the field is labeled "Feature not available."

General
SHORTCUT	WINDOWS FIREFOX	INTERNET EXPLORER	OPERA
Copy	Ctrl+C	Ctrl+C	Ctrl+C
Cut	Ctrl+X	Ctrl+X	Ctrl+X
Paste	Ctrl+V	Ctrl+V	Ctrl+V
Select all	Ctrl+A	Ctrl+A	Ctrl+A
Delete	Delete	Delete	Delete
Redo	Ctrl+Shift+Z	Ctrl+Y	Ctrl+Shift+Z
	Ctrl+Y		Ctrl+Y
Undo	Ctrl+Z	Ctrl+Z	Ctrl+Z
Help	F1	F1	F1

Moving Around the Screen
SHORTCUT	WINDOWS FIREFOX	INTERNET EXPLORER	OPERA
Go down one line	Down	Down	Down
Go up one line	Up	Up	Up
Go down one page	PageDown	PageDown	PageDown
Go up one page	PageUp	PageUp	PageUp
Go to the bottom of a page	End	End	End
Go to the top of a page	Home	Home	Home
Go to the next field or link	Tab	Tab	Tab
Go to the previous field or link	Shift+Tab	Shift+Tab	Shift+Tab

Browsing
SHORTCUT	WINDOWS FIREFOX	INTERNET EXPLORER	OPERA
Back	Backspace	Backspace	Backspace
	Alt+	Alt+	Alt+
			Ctrl+
			Z
Forward	Shift+Backspace	Shift+Backspace	Shift+Backspace
	Alt+	Alt+	Alt+
			Ctrl+
			X
Bookmark the current web page	Ctrl+D	Ctrl+D	Ctrl+T
View bookmarks in sidebar	Ctrl+B	Ctrl+I	F4
	Ctrl+I		Ctrl+Alt+B
			Ctrl+1
View history in sidebar	Ctrl+H	Ctrl+H	Ctrl+Alt+H
			Ctrl+4
Go to a web address	Ctrl+L	Alt+D	F8
	Alt+D	F4
		Ctrl+Tab
Complete an address with .com. This shortcut works only in the address bar.	Ctrl+Enter	Ctrl+Enter	Enter
Complete an address with .net. This shortcut works only in the address bar.	Shift+Enter	Feature not available	Feature not available
Complete an address with .org. This shortcut works only in the address bar.	Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Feature not available	Feature not available
Print the current web page	Ctrl+P	Ctrl+P	Ctrl+P
Stop loading the web page	Esc	Esc	Esc
Reload the web page from the cache	F5	F5	F5
	Ctrl+R	Ctrl+R	Ctrl+R
Reload the web page directly from the server (override information in the cache)	Ctrl+F5	Ctrl+F5
	Ctrl+Shift+R
Downloads	Ctrl+J	Feature not available	Ctrl+Alt+T
			Ctrl+5
Start a new mail message	Ctrl+M
Caret browsing	F7	Feature not available	Feature not available
Save page as	Ctrl+S		Ctrl+S
Save link target as	Alt+Enter
Delete individual form auto-complete entry	Shift+Delete	Delete
Select next autocomplete entry in text field	Down
Select previous autocomplete entry in text field	Up

Searching
SHORTCUT	WINDOWS FIREFOX	INTERNET EXPLORER	OPERA
Find in this page	Ctrl+F	Ctrl+F	Ctrl+F
Find again	Ctrl+G		F3
	F3
Find as you type link	,	Feature not available	,
			Shift+/
Find as you type text	/	Feature not available	/
			.
Find previous	Ctrl+Shift+G		Shift+F3
	Shift+F3
Select next search engine in search bar	Ctrl+Down
Select previous search engine in search bar	Ctrl+Up
Web search. Web search moves the cursor to the Search bar and works only if the Search Bar is visible. If the Search Bar is hidden, this keyboard shortcut has no effect.	Ctrl+K		Shift+F8
DOM Inspector	Ctrl+Shift+I	Feature not available	Feature not available

Window Manipulation
SHORTCUT	WINDOWS FIREFOX	INTERNET EXPLORER	OPERA
Open new window	Ctrl+N	Ctrl+N	Ctrl+Alt+N
Close window	Ctrl+Shift+W	Ctrl+W	Ctrl+W
	Alt+F4	Alt+F4	Alt+F4
Open new tab	Ctrl+T	Feature not available	Ctrl+N
Close tab	Ctrl+W	Feature not available	Ctrl+W
	Ctrl+F4		Ctrl+F4
Go to tab [1 to 9]	Ctrl+[1 to 9]	Feature not available
Open file	Ctrl+O	Ctrl+O	Ctrl+O
Open link	Enter	Enter	Enter
Open link in new tab	Ctrl+Enter	Feature not available
Open link in new window	Shift+Enter	Shift+Enter	Shift+Enter
Open address in new tab. This shortcut works only in the address bar.	Alt+Enter	Feature not available	Shift+Enter
Toggle fullscreen mode	F11	F11	F11
Go to the home page	Alt+Home	Alt+Home	Alt+Home
Move to the next frame	F6
Move to the previous frame	Shift+F6
Zoom in text	Ctrl++		0
Zoom out text	Ctrl+0		6
Go to the next tab	Ctrl+Tab	Feature not available	Ctrl+Tab
			Ctrl+PageDown
			Alt+PageDown
			Ctrl+F6
			2
Go to the previous tab	Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Feature not available	Ctrl+Shift+Tab
	Ctrl+PageUp		Alt+PageUp
			Ctrl+Shift+F6
			1
View the page source	Ctrl+U	Ctrl+F3	Ctrl+F3

Mouse Shortcuts for Windows

The following table shows you the mouse shortcuts for Windows.

SHORTCUT	WINDOWS FIREFOX	INTERNET EXPLORER	OPERA
Back	Shift+Scroll down	Shift+Scroll down	Shift+Scroll down
Forward	Shift+Scroll up	Shift+Scroll up	Shift+Scroll up
Scroll line by line	Alt+Scroll
Open new tab	Double-click tab bar	Feature not available	Double-click tab bar
Close tab	Middle-click tab	Feature not available	Shift+Left-click
Open in background tab	Ctrl+Left-click Middle-click	Feature not available	Ctrl+Shift+Left-click
			Middle-click
Open in foreground tab	Ctrl+Shift+Left-click	Feature not available	Shift+Left-click
	Shift+Middle-click		Shift+Left-click
Open in new window	Shift+Left-click	Shift+Left-click
Zoom in text	Ctrl+Scroll down	Ctrl+Scroll down	Ctrl+Scroll down
Zoom out text	Ctrl+Scroll up	Ctrl+Scroll up	Ctrl+Scroll up
Reload the web page directly from the server (override information in the cache)	Shift+Reload button	Shift+Reload button
Save page as	Alt+Left-click

Clicking a link while holding down Ctrl (Ctrl+Left-click) opens the link in a background tab. This is useful for quickly opening several links that will take time to load from a main page without having to jump back and forth each time you create a new tab. Clicking a link while holding down Shift and Ctrl (Shift+Ctrl+Left-click) opens the link in a foreground tab. You can reverse the way these two shortcuts work by going to Tools | Options | Advanced and clicking the Select new tabs opened from links checkbox under Tabbed Browsing.