{"id":9162,"date":"2009-09-15T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts-for-web-browsers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:22","slug":"keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts-for-web-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts-for-web-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard and mouse shortcuts for web browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We briefly mentioned a few keyboard shortcuts for Firefox<\/a> a while ago, but there are many others I’m sure you already know – and which usually work across all main browsers, like Ctrl+T to open a new tab or clicking the mouse’s wheel on a link to open it in the background.<\/p>\n

However today we won’t focus on keyboard-only shortcuts; we’ll talk about mouse and keyboard combinations<\/strong>, which enable you to perform different tasks by pressing a given key while clicking with your mouse.<\/p>\n

Firefox\"Keyboard<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ctrl + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link a new tab in the background
\nCtrl + Shift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new tab in the foreground
\nShift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new window
\nShift + Alt + Click<\/strong>: Forces the link to open in the current tab
\nAlt + Click<\/strong>: Saves link as…<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer\"Keyboard<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ctrl + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link a new tab in the background
\nCtrl + Shift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new tab in the foreground
\nShift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new window
\nCtrl + Alt + Click<\/strong>: Saves page as…<\/p>\n

Opera\"Keyboard<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ctrl + Shift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link a new tab in the background
\nShift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new tab in the foreground
\nCtrl + Click<\/strong>: Saves image as…<\/p>\n

Google Chrome\"Keyboard<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ctrl + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link a new tab in the background
\nCtrl + Shift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new tab in the foreground
\nShift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new window
\nAlt + Click<\/strong>: Saves page as…<\/p>\n

Safari\"Keyboard<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ctrl + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link a new tab in the background
\nCtrl + Shift + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new tab in the foreground
\nCtrl + Alt + Click<\/strong>: Opens the link in a new window<\/p>\n

[Via: OnSoftware Spain<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We briefly mentioned a few keyboard shortcuts for Firefox a while ago, but there are many others I’m sure you already know – and which usually work across all main browsers, like Ctrl+T to open a new tab or clicking the mouse’s wheel on a link to open it in the background. However today we … Continue reading “Keyboard and mouse shortcuts for web browsers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335376,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions\/335376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}