Tricks to make life easy on the internet

Pressing Alt + D or F6 in any major Internet browser will move the cursor into the address bar. This is a great way to quickly enter an Internet address without having to click the mouse cursor in the address bar.

For clumsy fingered folks, if you accidentally close a tab on Google Chrome, press Control+Shift+T and it’ll come back from the dead.

Control+F or Command+F will allow you to find specific terms on a page. If only life had a version of this for when we lose our keys, phone, dignity, etc.

Press the backspace key or hold down the Alt key + left arrow to go back a page.

Want to surf the web in private with no recording of your web habits? For Firefox users, press control+shift+p, or for Chrome it’s control+shift+N, and you’ll be browsing off the record. This isn’t just for porn watching purposes as one might think, but for several other benefits such as websites that track your cookies and use ‘em to their advantage (I’m looking at you, hotel & airline companies). This simple incognito window defeats their swindling ways.

Press F11 to make the Internet browser screen full screen. Press F11 again to return back to the normal view.

If you put define: in front of a word and Google it, you’ll get that word’s definition.

What you type into the URL bar can be surrounded by www. & .com by pressing control + enter.

Press Ctrl + B to open your Internet bookmarks.

If you’re too lazy to lift a finger and click on your desired tab, control+tab (or control+shift+tab) will switch you between ‘em. As a lethargic tab hoarder, this is a great way to minimize hand movement while allowing that article from three weeks ago, that you swear you’re going to read, to remain open.

Too lazy to get up and grab your glasses? Control + or control – will allow you to adjust text sizes larger or smaller.

Press F5 to refresh or reload a web page.

Press Ctrl + F to open the find box in the browser to search for text within the web page you're looking at.