Webby Tips you prolly know already

June 30th, 2008

I’ve learned most of these “tricks” not so long ago. None of these are impressive, but maybe there’s a small chance you’ve been living under an e-rock like I have and didn’t know about it.

  • F5 refreshes the page. F6 highlights the address bar.
    F5 is something everyone should use, hands down. F6 has it’s obvious uses. You don’t have to struggle with trying to highlight the address yourself. (Sometimes the icon at the address bar works funky.)
  • Shift+Clicking on a link will open the link in a new window.
    I’ve prolly known about this and the one above the longest.
  • Clicking on a link with the mouse wheel will open a link in a new tab. Clicking on an existing tab will close it. (IE7, Firefox2+)
    This is something I actually found out within this past year. Yeah, I know it’s silly, but I’ve been using just IE6 for the longest time, and never really used tabs in browsers. E-fail.
  • Shift+Tab takes you to the previous option.
    Everybody knows what the Tab key does. This, on the other hand, I’ve found that some people were unaware.
  • Ctrl+Enter adds “http://www.” and “.com” to what you type in the address bar.
    I don’t use this quite so often, but it has it’s uses. For example, you could type “soursprite” in the address bar, and Ctrl+Enter will bring you to this website. Saves you an entire three keystrokes!
  • Very unimpressive, I know. But there are people who actually don’t know these things. Hey! Don’t look at me like that.

    3 Responses to “Webby Tips you prolly know already”

    1. Brian Says:

      I usually do the Ctrl+L for the highlighting the hyperlink, although that doesn’t quite work the same in IE over Firefox.

    2. NOT Andy Says:

      I’m pretty sure you don’t need the Ctrl+Enter anymore. Nowadays, if you just type in “soursprite”, it’ll take you to the site. Or, you know, the closest match. Or, you know, the google search for it.

    3. t. hubb Says:

      since i use a mac, naturally all these tips + infinity more are controlled by cerebral impulses. suck it.

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