Comments on: Mac Keyboard Shortcuts in Firefox

By: davyia

davyia — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:44:14 +0000

Wow…. had a couple of “aha” moments just now – thanks for the list!

By: Arjan

Arjan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:26:38 +0000

The problem: within some editors, such as TinyMCE, Firefox (on a MacBook) will handle Cmd-Left as “go back one page” rather than “go to the start of the current line”. Likewise, Cmd-Right will take you forward a page, but as in most cases there won't be a page to forward to, this often results in moving the cursor to the end of the current line after all.

To see the effect: go to http://tinymce.moxiecode.com and from that page go forward to Examples, and then forward to Documentation. Now, go back one page. Back in the Examples change some text and hit Cmd-Left while the cursor is still within the editor. Firefox will take you back yet another page, loosing any changes you made. Here Safari would set the cursor to the start of the current line. Likewise, for Cmd-Right Firefox takes you forward to Documentation, where Safari would move the cursor to the end of the current line.

The solution is simple: use the add-on “keyconfig” from http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=7... After installing go to menu Tools, Keyconfig and choose Disable for the combination “Back: Cmd + Left Arrow”. Likewise disable “Forward: Cmd + Right Arrow”. That's all. To navigate use Cmd-[ and Cmd-].

And if you don't want Delete/Backspace to take you the previous page when your cursor happens to be outside a textbox: see http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/change-... (which you could probably also do using keyconfig by disabling the combination “Back: Backspace”).

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:14:33 +0000

Servireee: Fn + Opt + left-arrow
This gets you to your home page

By: zemm

zemm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:00:04 +0000

Or use Fn-Up/Down for Page Up/Down!

BTW a few of these are wrong. eg, Control-Tab switches between tabs

By: Dispencer

Dispencer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:53:03 +0000

CalGal, use the spacebar to page down, SHIFT+spacebar to page up.

By: Servireee

Servireee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:53:31 +0000

Hey! Can anyone exlain to me how and where I can find the home key?! To go back to the home page it says press “alt/option + home”. I don’t know which key the home key is on the mac keyboard.
Thanks a lot!

By: Cal Gal

Cal Gal — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:57:16 +0000

What a pity Firefox doesn’t have page up/down shortcuts that work with the standard Mac keyboard. I personally don’t want to carry an extra extended keyboard with the pageup/pagedown keys.

But much thanks for pulling together the list.

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:24:31 +0000

Does any one know how to turn off the Cmd-Left Arrow to go back in the history? This kills me when I’m editing a Wiki page and loose my data.

By: evden eve nakliyat

evden eve nakliyat — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:48:15 +0000

very nice informations…thanks..

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