i am a tabbed browser junkie, yea that's what you can call me. i totally love the hassel free and cluster free browsing that the browsers today provide, quite unlike the ealier one i used ie 6 a pain to have so many windows open at one and the navigation was just too patethic.

i do know that there was netscape but i hated for its junk looks also mozilla which i didn't use much earlier, but with firefox and later ie7 and flock i can't live with those tabbed browsers, they make my life so easier.

i thought to share some of the shortcuts which has made my life a bit easier with the tabbed browsing.

i have generalized the shortcuts into three categories firefox and flock only, ie7 only and all tabbed browsers.

here are those keyboard shortcuts for all tabbed browsers

open links in a new tab in the background   ctrl+click  
open links in a new tab in the foreground   ctrl+shift+click  
open a new tab in the foreground          ctrl+t  
switch between tabs                  ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab  
close all tabs                  alt+f4
close other tabs                  ctrl+alt+f4  

firefox specific only

switch to a specific tab number            ctrl+n (n can be 1-9) (over 9 it does not work in firefox and flock)
close current tab  ctrl+w

ie 7 related

open a new tab from the address bar         alt+enter
open a new tab from the toolbar search box  alt+enter
open quick tabs (thumbnail view)            ctrl+q
switch to a specific tab number             ctrl+n (n can be 1-8)  
switch to the last tab                      ctrl+9  

mouse shortcuts

open a link in a background tab          middle mouse button on a link  
open a new tab                      double click on empty tab row space  
close a tab                      middle mouse button on the tab  

so here is to enjoying a better browsing experience, i couldn't cover opera as i actually don't use it, but will try and use it soon.