Standard Browser Keyboard Shortcuts.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer Blog recently posted a great list of keyboard shortcuts for the upcoming IE7. What makes it even greater, however, is that almost all of the shortcuts work identically in Firefox.
In the interest of brevity, I tested every shortcut and pared down the
list to only the keyboard shortcuts that work the same in both
browsers:
Standard toolbar buttons
Alt +  , or Shift + Mousewheel up
Back
Alt +  , or Shift + Mousewheel down
Forward
F5
Reload
Ctrl + F5
Force Reload (no cache)
Esc
Stop
Alt + Home
Homepage
Address Bar
Alt + D
Set focus to Address Bar
Ctrl + Enter
Add "www." and ".com" prefix to Address Bar
Alt + Enter
Open Address Bar location in a new tab
Tabs
Ctrl + 1
Switch to n-th tab (1..9)
Ctrl + Tab
Switch to next tab
Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Switch to previous tab
Ctrl + W, or Middle Click tab
Close current tab
Ctrl + T, or double-click empty tab area
Open new tab in the foreground
Ctrl + Left Click, or Middle Click
Open clicked link in a new background tab
Ctrl + Shift + Left Click
Open clicked link in a new tab, and set focus to it
Reading
Ctrl + +, or Ctrl + Mousewheel down
Make font size larger (or Zoom in IE7)
Ctrl + -, or Ctrl + Mousewheel up
Make font size smaller (or Zoom in IE7)
Ctrl + 0
Set to default font size / zoom
Space
Scroll down
Shift + Space
Scroll up
Favorites
Ctrl + D
Add current site to Favorites
Ctrl + I
Open Favorites pane
Ctrl + H
Open History pane
Search
Ctrl + E
Set focus to search box
Alt + Enter
Perform search in new tab
Ctrl + 
Change search box provider
There
are only a handful of truly unique IE7 keyboard shortcuts. It's good to
see the IE7 team adopting the keyboard shortcuts already in Firefox
rather than making up their own.
[Coding Horror]
11:15:43 AM 
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