Open your bookmarks/favorites sidebar with CTRL+I.
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a shortcut a day keeps the mouse away
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One of the first posts on this site was about Alt+D and the address bar – when you’re in the address bar in IE or Firefox, just press F4 and the menu will drop down and you’ll see previously typed addresses.
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You can view your history in Firefox and IE by pressing CTRL+H.
Don’t forget, if there’s something in your history that you don’t want there – you can clear out your history using Firefox and CTRL+SHIFT+Delete
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Go to the address bar in IE7 or Firefox — type the address of the site you’re wanting to visit (e.g., http://www.google.com) and press Alt+Enter to have it opened in a new tab.
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To refresh a page, just press F5 or CTRL+R.
(firefox only) To override your browser’s cache and ensure you’re getting the most current copy of the page, press CTRL+SHIFT+R (or CTRL+F5)
*In Firefox on Mac refresh is accomplished using Apple+R or F5 (fn+F5 on the macbook).
*Apple+SHIFT+R or Apple+F5 (Apple+Fn+F5 on macbook) overrides the browser’s cache.
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Surfing another site and want to hit your “home” site?
Don’t click the house icon, just press Alt+Home. It will take you to your browser’s “Home” page.
(For those of you using a Mac the equivalent would be Option+Home or if you’re on a Mac laptop/notebook/preferred nomenclature it would be Option ⌥ +Fn+<-Home “thats the left arrow/home key for those of you in the audience confused by that last part”.)
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From the Firefox Address Bar there’s a gem to be unlocked.
* Type “yahoo” and press CTRL+Enter you will be taken to http://www.yahoo.com (this also works in IE)
* Type “yahoo” and press CTRL+SHIFT+Enter and you’ll be taken to http://www.yahoo.org
* Type “yahoo” and press SHIFT+Enter and you’ll be taken to http://www.yahoo.net
Exchange “yahoo” for any site you’re wanting to visit. My favorite? Typing “bofe” and then pressing CTRL+SHIFT+Enter. 
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You’ll soon start noticing that adding the SHIFT key onto any shortcut usually does the inverse. If CTRL+TAB moves us from left to right in our tabs, then CTRL+SHIFT+TAB will move us from right to left.
This works in almost any Windows application that uses tabs. Including those places in the Control Panel like “Display Settings”.
Note, it does not work in gAIM. You’ve gotta use CTRL+PageUp and CTRL+PageDown for gAIM tabs. Stupid gAIM.
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CTRL+A will work in most GNOME/Windows applications that have areas for text to be entered.
Need to clear everything out? CTRL+A followed by a backspace or delete.
⌘+A on a Mac
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In Firefox and IE7, CTRL+T will take you to a new tab.
CTRL+W will close the tab.
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