Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Simple comparison of main hotkeys in Firefox, Chrome & Safari in Mac OS

Let's compare shortkeys of 3 browsers:
Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X
Google Chrome for Mac OS X
Safari for Mac OS X


Clearing the history:
Safari: only manually by picking History / Clear history... from main menu
Firefox & Chrome: ALT (Option) + [Shift] + [Backspace]

Getting to the home page:
Safari: Command + Home
Firefox: ALT (Option) + Home
Chrome: Command + Shift + H

Works in all three browsers:
Control + R - reload page
Command + [,] (comma) - go to settings
Command + L - focus cursor to the address bar
Command + P - print the page


Useless hotkeys:
* Command + D - bookmark page. Useless, because everybody should use cloud bookmarklet services like Google Bookmarks.
* Control + Command + F - enter/quit full screen mode

The hotkeys supported only by one browser:
Safari Unique Hotkeys:
* Show All Tabs (in Mission Commander style): [Shift] + [Command] + \

Firefox Unique Hotkeys:
* Command + Enter - Automatically insert the ".com" at the end of typed word and open the page. E.g. you type only "google" then browser automatically adds ".com" to immediately open Google web-page for you.
* Command + [Shift] + T - Restore previously closed windows from pages "Recycle Bin"

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