The trouble with giving advice is people want to pay you back. - Alfred Neuman
I'm glad most of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Firefox 3 and IE 8 (Beta 2) are similar. Here is the list including some IE specific shortcuts:
| Command | Shortcut |
| Back | Backspace or Alt+Left Arrow |
| Forward | Alt+Right Arrow |
| New tab | Ctrl+T |
| Undo Close Tab | Ctrl+Shift+T |
| Switch between tabs | Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab |
| Reload/Refresh | F5 |
| Full Screen | F11 |
| Caret Browsing | F7 |
| Toolbar Search Box | Ctrl+E |
| Zoom In | Ctrl++ |
| Zoom Out | Ctrl+- |
| Clear Private Data | Ctrl+Shift+Del |
| Go to Location/Address Bar | Ctrl+L |
| Go to Search box | Ctrl+E |
| Find | Ctrl+F |
| Find Next | F3 |
| New Window | Ctrl+N |
| Close Tab | Ctrl+W |
| Open link in new background Tab | Ctrl+Left Mouse Button |
| Private Browsing (introduced in IE8 & Firefox 3.5) | Ctrl+Shift+P |
| Add "http://www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of text in address bar | Ctrl+Enter |
| Page down/Page up | Space/Shift+Space |
| Open Download Manager | Ctrl + J |
| IE specific shortcuts | |
| Developer Tools | F12 |
| Open Quick tabs | Ctrl+Q |
| Open new InPrivate Browsing window | Ctrl+Shift+P |
| Duplicate/Clone tab | Ctrl+K |
Did you know the keyboard shortcut to open a new tab in Opera was once Ctrl+N? It was changed to Ctrl+T on popular demand.
Talking of Opera, here is some trivia (source: Wikipedia) -
Håkon Wium Lie, chief technical officer of the Opera Software company is the creator of the CSS web standard.
With version 8.5 (released in 2005) the advertisements were removed entirely and primary financial support for the browser came through revenue from Google (which is by contract Opera's default search engine).
Opera technology is now found in Adobe GoLive, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, and other components of the Adobe Creative Suite
..a development build of Opera's layout engine, Presto, scores 100/100 on the Acid3 standards compliance test and renders the test correctly. However, it does not actually pass the test due to slow performanceAlso see:
My Favorite Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts