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Back	Alt+Left Arrow Backspace
Forward	Alt+Right Arrow Shift+Backspace
Home	Alt+Home
Open File	Ctrl+O
Reload	F5 Ctrl+R
Reload (override cache)	Ctrl+F5Ctrl+Shift+R
Stop	Esc

Current Page

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Go to Bottom of Page	End
Go to Top of Page	Home
Move to Next Frame	F6
Move to Previous Frame	Shift+F6
Page Source	Ctrl+U
Print	Ctrl+P
Save Page As	Ctrl+S
Zoom In	Ctrl++
Zoom Out	Ctrl+-
Zoom Reset	Ctrl+0

Editing

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Copy	Ctrl+C
Cut	Ctrl+X
Delete	Delete
Paste	Ctrl+V
Redo	Ctrl+Y
Select All	Ctrl+A
Undo	Ctrl+Z

Search

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Find	Ctrl+F
Find Again	F3 Ctrl+G
Find Previous	Shift+F3 Ctrl+Shift+G
Find As You Type Link	'
Find As You Type Text	/
Search bar	Ctrl+K Ctrl+E

Windows & Tabs

See also Tabbed browsing

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Close Tab	Ctrl+W Ctrl+F4
Close Window	Ctrl+Shift+W Alt+F4
Move Tab in focus Left	Ctrl+Left Arrow Ctrl+Up Arrow
Move Tab in focus Right	Ctrl+Right Arrow Ctrl+Down Arrow
Move Tab in focus to start	Ctrl+Home
Move Tab in focus to end	Ctrl+End
New Tab	Ctrl+T
New Window	Ctrl+N
Next Tab	Ctrl+Tab Ctrl+Page Down
Open Address in New Tab	Alt+Enter	- from Location Bar or Search Bar
Previous Tab	Ctrl+Shift+Tab Ctrl+Page Up
Undo Close Tab	Ctrl+Shift+T
Undo Close Window	Ctrl+Shift+N
Select Tab (1 to 8)	Ctrl+(1 to 8)
Select Last Tab	Ctrl+9
Tab Groups View	Ctrl+Shift+E

History

Command________________	Shortcut____________
History sidebar	Ctrl+H
Library window (History)	Ctrl + Shift + H

Bookmarks

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Bookmark All Tabs	Ctrl+Shift+D
Bookmark This Page	Ctrl+D
Bookmarks sidebar	Ctrl+B  Ctrl+I
Library window (Bookmarks)	Ctrl+Shift+B

Tools

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Downloads	Ctrl + J
Add-ons	Ctrl + Shift + A
Error Console	Ctrl + Shift + J
Web Console	Ctrl + Shift + K
Toggle Private Browsing	Ctrl + Shift + P
Clear Recent History	Ctrl + Shift + Del

Miscellaneous

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Complete .com Address	Ctrl+Enter
Complete .net Address	Shift+Enter
Complete .org Address	Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry	Del
Toggle Full Screen	F11
Toggle Menu Bar (when hidden)	Alt F10
Show/Hide Add-on Bar	Ctrl + /
Caret Browsing	F7
Select Location Bar	Alt+DF6 Ctrl+L
Select or Manage Search Engines	Alt+Up Arrow Alt+Down Arrow F4	- when Search Bar is focused

Media shortcuts (Ogg and WebM Videos Only)

Command________________	Shortcut____________
Toggle Play / Pause	Space
Decrease volume	Arrow down
Increase volume	Arrow up
Mute audio	Ctrl+Down Arrow
Unmute audio	Ctrl+Arrow up
Seek back 15 seconds	Left Arrow
Seek back 10 %	Ctrl+Left Arrow
Seek forward 15 seconds	Right Arrow
Seek forward 10 %	Ctrl+Right Arrow
Seek to the beginning	Home
Seek to the end	End

Understand (and Get Rid of) the Mysterious Small Partition

If you install Windows 7 on a clean disk with no existing partitions, it creates a System Reserved partition at the beginning of the disk and uses the remainder of the unallocated space to create your system drive.That small partition isn’t assigned a drive letter, so you won’t even know it exists unless you look in the Disk Management console or use a low-level utility, such as Diskpart, to inspect the disk structure.

This “stub” of a partition, which is new in Windows 7, serves two functions. First, it holds the Boot Manager code and the Boot Configuration Database. Sec¬ond, it reserves space for the startup files required by the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature. If you ever decide to encrypt your system drive using BitLocker, you won’t have to repartition your system drive to make it possible.

If you’re confident you’ll never use BitLocker and prefer to do without the additional complexity of this System Reserved partition, your best bet is to make sure it’s never created. For a truly clean installation starting from an unformatted hard drive, you must use a different disk-management utility, such as the setup disk available from many hard-disk manufacturers or a startup disk from Windows Vista. Create a single primary partition using all unallocated space, and then point the installer to the newly created partition as the setup location. (Note that you cannot use the graphical disk-management tools available from the Windows 7 DVD to perform this task.) After you use the alternative tool to create a partition on the drive, you can point the Win¬dows 7 installer to that location and it will proceed.

If you’re comfortable with command-line disk management tools, you can use the Diskpart utility from the setup program to create the necessary partition. At the begin¬ning of setup, before you select the location where you want to install Windows:

1. Press Shift+F10 to open a Command Prompt window
2. Type diskpart to enter the Diskpart environment
3. Assuming you have a single clean hard disk, use select disk 0 and create partition primary to manually create a new partition
4. Proceed with the Windows 7 setup, using this new partition as the setup location

REPARTITION YOUR HARD DRIVE WITHOUT FORMATING IT

If you are logged in as an administrator, you can repartition your hard disk by using the Shrink feature in Disk Management. You can shrink an existing partition or volume to create unallocated disk space, from which you can create a new partition or volume. (Note that the terms partition and volume are often used interchangeably.)

1. Open Computer Management by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Security, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Computer Management.‌  If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
2. In the left pane, under Storage, click Disk Management.
3. Right-click the volume you want to shrink, and then click Shrink Volume.
4. Follow the instructions.

Connect Two Computers Using A Crossover Cble

If you need to connect two computers but you don't have access to a network and can't set up an ad hoc network, you can use an Ethernet crossover cable to create a direct cable connection.

Generally speaking, a crossover cable is constructed by reversing ("crossing over") the order of the wires inside so that it can connect two computers directly. A crossover cable looks almost exactly like a regular Ethernet cable (a "straight-through" cable), so make sure you have a crossover cable before following these steps.

Before buying a crossover cable, check your network adapter. Some newer network adapters automatically "cross over" when they detect that they are connected directly to another network adapter using a regular Ethernet cable.

To connect two computers with a crossover cable

This works best if both computers are running this version of Windows.

1. Plug each end of the crossover cable into a network port on the back of each computer.
2. On one of the computers that is running this version of Windows, do the following:
   Open Network and Sharing Center by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Network and Internet, and then clicking Network and Sharing Center.
3. In the network map at the top of Network and Sharing Center, double-click the Unidentified network‍ icon. (If you have more than one network, this icon will be labeled Multiple networks.)
4. If network discovery and file sharing are turned off, in Network, click the Information bar containing the following message: "Network discovery and file sharing are turned off. Network computers and devices are not visible. Click to change...," and then click Turn on network discovery and file sharing.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
5. In the Network discovery and file sharing dialog box, select one of the following options:
   • No, make the network that I am connected to a private network
   • Yes, turn on network discovery and file sharing for all public networks
   The first option is usually the best choice because it only affects the network that you are connected to.

Notes

• Networks created with crossover cables are automatically set up as "Public place" networks, which means that network discovery, file sharing, and printer sharing are off by default.
• For Gigabit Ethernet or token ring networks, you will need a slightly different kind of crossover cable. For more information, contact a cable manufacturer.

Icons for both computers should now be visible in the Network window. Double-click each computer icon to share printers and other resources.

Note

If one of the computers is running Windows XP, it can take some time for that computer to appear in the Network window. You might need to move both computers to the same workgroup. You can do that by changing the workgroup on either computer. To change a workgroup, see Join or create a workgroup. You might also need to turn on file and printer sharing on the computer running Windows XP.