14 keyboard shortcuts to boost your productivity on a Web Browser [PC]

Web browsing is best done on a computer (or laptop). The nifty keyboard shortcuts that work universally on all the browsers on a computer can’t be matched by any gesture controlled shortcuts, or any similar thing on a tablet or a smartphone. Listed below are the keyboard shortcuts that make me claim everything above.

Note: I have tested the below shortcuts on Google Chrome v33, Opera v18, Firefox v16 (outdated, but I rarely use it) and Internet Explorer v11. (Almost all of) These shortcuts are universal and should work fine on other web browsers and different versions of the browsers I mentioned.

1. Control + Left Click on a link to open it in new tab (Or pressing middle mouse button (or left and right touchpad buttons simultaneously, if configured correctly) on a link).
2. Control + 1 or 2 or 3 …..9 to jump to the first or second or third... ninth tab, Control + 0 to switch to the last tab. (Doesn’t work on Opera 18, works on Chrome, Firefox, IE 11)
3. Control + W to close tab.
4. Control + Tab or Control + Shift + Tab to switch tabs clockwise or anti-clockwise (respectively).
5. Control + T to open a new tab.
6. Control + Shift + T to open the last closed tab (twice to open the last two tabs and so on…)
7. Control + J to open Downloads Page.
8. Control + H to jump to the History page.
9. Control + O to open a document, Control + S to save the current page.
10. Alt + Left Arrow to go back one page (like backspace), Alt + Right arrow to go forward one page. (Works even in File Explorer)
11. Control + L to jump to the address bar (omnibox/url bar, whatever you call it), start typing an address and visit it right away!
12. Control + U to view the page source of any web page.
13. Control + Shift + N for private (or incognito) browsing on Chrome and Opera, Control + Shift + P for the same on Firefox. This feature doesn’t exist on Internet Explorer.
14. And obviously, Control + F to find something in a page.

I know you won’t be able to put all these to use right away. Bookmark this page for easy access to this page later on so that you can revise all these shortcuts at will. Also, if this helped you even a tad bit, your friends might also find it useful. Share this story on your social networks to let them know.