A little known feature about Firefox 3.0
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If you are a ardent web surfer and you use firefox mostly for web browsing,then this article could be interesting for you.
It is very common for a web surfer to open more than 9 sites in a firefox in the same window, it happens to me as when I browse through large number of blogs and web sites opened in different uncountable tabs.
Switching across these tabs becomes more and more difficult when as number increases, so there a key board shortcut associated with each tab starting from left as ctrl+1 for first tab, ctrl+2 for the second tab and so on..
But these shortcuts are limited up to ctrl+9 to access the opened tab the 9th position but if you want to access the last opened tab with a keyboard shortcut you can’t do this in any version lesser then Firefox 3.0
But in Firefox 3.0, if you press ctrl+9 you can access 9th tab if their are less or equal to 9 tabs opened else you will get to the last tab opened in firefox 3.0 irrespective of how many tabs are opened.
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Nice find, but I generally use CTRL + TAB to switch between tabs.
Well this works in both Firefox 2 and 3 -> If you wanna open the last tab, just go to the first tab and then press Ctrl+Shift+Tab
@abhijeet – thanks buddy…really gud to know this.
@nirmal – ya nirmal even i use ctrl+tab for switching across tab but this post is about how can you access the last tab in firefox
or you could just use ctrl tab..
hi…
if i’m not mistaken….bfore Firefox 3, as u hit CTRL+9…you will go to the last tab….not only firefox3…i’m saying this bcos i’m using it all the time with the previous version of firefox….
p/s: sorry for my poor english…
WOW, I knew about Ctrl + 1, Ctrl + 2.. But didn’t knew that we’ll jump to the last tab when we press Ctrl + 9. Thanks for sharing the tip
In Linux, replace Ctrl+ for Alt+ with the numbers trick. And it has worked with Firefox for quite some time, not just version 3.
Also, if you have trouble counting (
), take a look at this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4346