Mouse Shortcuts

This is a list of the most common mouse shortcuts in Firefox, and the equivalents in Internet Explorer and Opera. The shortcuts are for Windows, but most of the Firefox shortcuts should work in Linux too.

Command	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera
Back	`Shift`+`Scroll down`	`Shift`+`Scroll down`	`Shift`+`Scroll down`
Close Tab	`Middle-click` on Tab	Feature Not Available	`Shift`+`Left-click`
Decrease Text Size	`Ctrl`+`Scroll up`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll up`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll up`
Forward	`Shift`+`Scroll up`	`Shift`+`Scroll up`	`Shift`+`Scroll up`
Increase Text Size	`Ctrl`+`Scroll down`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll down`	`Ctrl`+`Scroll down`
New Tab	`Double-Click` on Tab Bar	Feature Not Available	`Double-Click` on Tab Bar
Open in Background Tab	`Ctrl`+`Left-click` `Middle-click`	Feature Not Available	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Left-click` `Middle-click`
Open in Foreground Tab	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Left-click` `Shift`+`Middle-click`		`Shift`+`Left-click`
Open in New Window	`Shift`+`Left-click`	`Shift`+`Left-click`
Paste URL and Go	`Middle-click` on Tab	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available
Reload (override cache)	`Shift`+Reload button	`Shift`+Reload button
Save Page As	`Alt`+`Left-click`
Scroll line by line	`Alt`+`Scroll`

A Middle-click on a tab closes it on Windows by default. However, in Linux it pastes whatever is currently in the Clipboard and visits that site (or performs a search). This can be changed by setting the middlemouse.contentLoadURL pref to either true (for the Content Load URL feature) or false (for closing the tab).

By default, Ctrl+Left-click opens the link in a background tab (which will keep you navigating on the page you clicked the link on) and Shift+Ctrl+Left-click opens the link in a foreground tab. In order to reverse this behaviour, select Tools > Options..., click on Advanced and check the Select new tabs from open links option.