Hopefully you have already downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5 on your PC, if not do yourself a favour and download it here. Even if you are a regular Firefox user am sure you do not know all keyboard shortcuts for all possible options. So to make your life easier, I present the complete list of all keyboard shorcuts in Firefox 3.5.

Here we go,

Navigation

• 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+F5, Ctrl+Shift+R
• Stop – Esc

Current Page

• Go to Bottom of Page – End
• Go to Top of Page – Home
• Move to Next Frame – F6
• Move to Previous Frame – Shift+F6

Page Info

• Page Source – Ctrl+U
• Print – Ctrl+P
• Save Page As – Ctrl+S
• Zoom In – Ctrl++
• Zoom Out – Ctrl+-
• Zoom Reset – Ctrl+0

Editing

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

Search

• Find – Ctrl+F
• Find Again – F3, Ctrl+G
• Find As You Type Link – ‘
• Find As You Type Text – /
• Find Previous – Shift+F3
• Web Search – Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E

Windows & Tabs

• Close Tab – Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4
• Close Window – Ctrl+Shift+W, Alt+F4
• Move Tab Left (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Left Arrow, Ctrl+Up Arrow
• Move Tab Right (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Right Arrow, Ctrl+Down Arrow
• Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused) – Ctrl +Home
• Move Tab to End (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+End
• New Tab – Ctrl+T
• New Window – Ctrl+N
• Next Tab – Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Page Down
• Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar) – Alt+Enter
• Previous Tab – Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+Page Up
• Undo Close Tab – Ctrl+Shift+T
• Select Tab (1 to – Ctrl+(1 to
• Select Last Tab – Ctrl+9

Tools

• Bookmark All Tabs – Ctrl+Shift+D
• Bookmark This Page – Ctrl+D
• Bookmarks – Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I
• Caret Browsing – F7
• Downloads – Ctrl+J
• History – Ctrl+H
• Clear Private Data – Ctrl+Shift+Del
• Error Console – Ctrl+Shift+J

Miscellaneous

• 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
• Help – F1
• Select Location Bar – Alt+D, F6, Ctrl+L
• Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused) – Alt+Up Arrow, Alt+Down Arrow, F4

Hopefully you know most of these already and have learned a few along the way.

Wanna see how many users are downloading Firefox 3.5 right now?

Mozilla launched http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/ so users can see in real-time how many downloads are happening of the new Firefox 3.5 release. What it does is display the amount of Firefox 3.5 downloads per second happening, grouping it by country aswell. It also shows the total amount of downloads completed per country.

By the time I posted this entry there was already 747000 downloads completed, from which South Africa contributed 1300. Not bad considering the download is only available for a few hours now. Go check out the live stats at http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

Firefox 3.5 was released today. Firefox 3.5  is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.

Some of the noteable features are:

• Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try it here!)
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. (Try it here!)
• Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

I have been running the beta version of Firefox 3.5 for some time now and have been very impressed to date, especialy performance wise. So if you’re a Firefox fanboi go ahead and download the Firefox 3.5 now. Download available here or locally here.