Handy Hotkeys: F6 (In IE, FireFox, or Chrome)

Hitting F6 while you are in the Mozilla FireFox, Google’s Chrome, or Internet Explorer browser will snap the cursor up into the URL address field.

I find this so handy. Having to move my hand off the keyboard over to the mouse in order to place the cursor up in the URL address bar so I can enter a new site URL is so annoying. My hands are on the keyboard and I want to go to another URL I have thought of, so I have to grab the mouse, move the cursor up to the URL address bar, click it up there, then put my hands back on the keyboard as I am a two-handed touch-typist, and then enter the new URL (Web address) I want to go to.

So much easier to hit F6 with my right index finger, cursor snaps to the URL field, then enter the new URL. So much easier.

It is a pity that Opera, my third favourite browser after FireFox and IE, does not follow this ‘standard’. I have no idea what the shortcut key is in Opera to do this, or even if Opera has one. Hence I find I am using Opera less and less.

I have tried F6 with the new v9 beta release of IE (IE9) and it works with that as well; thank goodness.