General browsers have six skills that are rarely known.

General browsers have six skills that are rarely known.

Although we do not have a high sense of presence, the browser is undoubtedly a window for us to access the World Wide Web. The selection of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and other solutions depends on your actual needs. However, no matter what the results are, they all have some general skills and tricks to use.

From shortcut key combination to security settings, we will try our best in today's article. The most important thing is to regularly read the content and integrate it into your habits for a better browser experience.

Use common shortcut key combinations

Whether you use a browser or other programs, understanding the shortcut key combination can significantly improve efficiency. Especially in browsers, you will find that these tips can make your daily life better.

The total number of common shortcut key combinations is quite large, so here we only propose the most important part. You are often used to placing your right hand on a mouse or touchpad. Therefore, the shortcut keys that are suitable for left-hand operations include:

• Esc: stops page loading.
• Ctrl + Tab: Go to the next tag
• Ctrl + Shift + Tab: return to the previous tag
• Ctrl + 1, 2, 3... 9: Go to the first, second, and ninth tags.
• Ctrl + T: open a new tab
• Ctrl + Shift + T: Restore the last closed tab
• Ctrl + L: Go to the address bar
• Space: Scroll down one page
• Shift + Space: Scroll up one page
• Ctrl + D: save this page as a bookmarks

You can easily master these combinations without investing too much energy. In addition, as long as you are familiar with the above operations, the execution efficiency is much higher than moving the mouse. If you are interested, click here to view the list of standard shortcut keys of the browser and tab.

Similar to the keyboard combination, there are also many mouse shortcuts for you to use.

• Click the tab to close it.
• Click or Ctrl + Left click a link to open it in the new tab.
• Ctrl + scroll up to zoom out the current page
• Ctrl + scroll down to enlarge the current page

Tab operations and options

Tab operations are very important, but the number of tabs in actual use may be quite large, which means we cannot see the title content of each tab-or even it is difficult to close a specific tab correctly.

Right-click any tab to view the menu options displayed, as shown in:

Fixed tab: If a tab is fixed, it means it is always displayed before other tabs. The fixed tab is automatically opened every time the browser is started. Of course, different browsers have different designs for whether fixed tabs can be closed.

Close the tab on the right: after using the fixed tab project, you will find this feature very useful. In general, you should fix the tabs that need to be opened and viewed all the time, such as the inbox or Facebook page. If you have many frequently used tabs, you can right-click the last fixed tab and select "Close the right tab ".

Close other tabs: similar to "Close the right tab", this option closes all unselected tabs.

Create a simple set of bookmarks

The bookmarked column is definitely an important but easily overlooked treasure in the browser. Although all browsers provide new tabs for ease of use, the role of the Bookmarks Bar is irreplaceable:

Some websites are frequently accessed. You can add them to the Bookmarks Bar to complete subsequent accesses more quickly.

For example, you can press Ctrl + D or Cmd + D to add the bookmarks. In the displayed window, save it in the "bookmarks" folder. Right-click the bookmarks and select edit ". Remove the name of the bookmark and retain the blank space, so that the address is still useful but not too messy.

Now, you can use this bookmarks. Click Open to open the current page, and click the key to open the new page.

Use more bookmarks and less extensions

Expansion does provide more functions and features for modern browsers, but we recommend that you use this solution as little as possible.

The best practice is to use small bookmarks instead of extensions. Small bookmarks consume less resources, so you can avoid performance degradation caused by excessive browser extensions.

The fundamental difference between bookmarks and extensions is that the former remains static in the browser and does not occupy any resources before clicking. The latter is always valid, regardless of whether you click it or not.

Now you know how to control the Bookmarks Bar and use bookmarks to keep your browser running at high speed.

Enable click execution for all plug-ins

Would you like to make your browser safer, load webpages faster, reduce data consumption, and reduce power consumption? The answer is to enable the "click to execute" option for all plug-ins in the settings.

As we all know, Flash and Silverlight are the most well-known plug-in options. They process a large amount of data and occupy resources. In addition, Flash plug-ins also have many security problems. Most importantly, these plug-ins are automatically executed on most sites.

By enabling "click to execute", you can prevent automatic loading and limit that it only applies to the content you want to watch. This means that we can run Flash games or watch videos as needed, instead of being controlled by websites.

View any webpage offline

Pocket and other digital Bookmarks allow you to save articles for future viewing, and even download these articles to your smartphone for offline access. However, in a desktop system, you still need a valid Internet connection to open the page. So, how can we access important pages without network availability?

This is a long-standing feature, but it is surprising that few users use it. First, create an Offline Pages directory on the disk. You can select any location. Then open the required page in the browser and click File> Save the page ...... And save it in the above directory as a "webpage, full format" file type. Remember to give it a name that is easy to recognize!

In this folder, you will see an HTML file with this name. Double-click the file to open it in the browser, even if the file is unavailable. Is it convenient?

In this main folder, we will also find a sub-folder with the same name as the HTML file-do not tamper with it, where the images and other data related to the page are saved.

This is what we share today. If you have your own experiences and experience, please share it with us in your comments.

Original article title: 6 Universal Browser Tips That You Probably Aren't Using, by Mihir Patkar

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