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Website

A website, or web site, is a central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser. For example, the Computer Hope website address is: http://www.computerhope.com. To the right is an image example of how the Computer Hope website looked in the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 browser in 2005.
Additional information about creating a web page and web site on the can be found on our How to start in HTML / Web design section

Windows shortcut key

How do I create a Windows shortcut key?

Question

How do I create a Windows shortcut key?

Answer

Create a shortcut

1. Open the folder or directory that contains the program you wish to create a shortcut for.
2. Right-click on the program and click Create Shortcut.
3. This will create a shortcut named "Shortcut to <your program>" in the directory you are in. If you wish to rename this shortcut, right-click the file and click rename.
4. Once the above steps have been completed, you can copy or cut this shortcut and paste it anywhere to execute this program.

Assign shortcut key to that Windows shortcut
Once the shortcut has been created to assign a shortcut key to that Windows shortcut follow the below steps.

1. Right-click the shortcut and click Properties.
2. Click the Shortcut tab.
3. Click in the Shortcut key box and press a letter. For example, if you press "p" the shortcut key will automatically be made Ctrl + Alt + P. Which means if saved when pressing Ctrl and Alt and "P" all at the same time will run that shortcut.

Additional information

• How do I create a Windows shortcut?
• Create a shortcut key for Internet web pages.
• See the shortcut key definition for further information and related links.

Top 10 Firefox shortcut keys everyone should know

Below is a listing of our top 10 favorite Firefox keyboard shortcuts. Learning these shortcuts will greatly improve your productivity and overall experience with Mozilla Firefox.
Ctrl + T and middle-click

Pressing Ctrl + T will open a blank new tab or if you want to open any link in a new tab press your middle mouse button (often the scroll wheel) to open that link in a new tab.

Ctrl + Shift + T

Oops, close a tab you didn't want closed, simply press Ctrl + Shift + T to undo any tab close. Pressing this multiple times will undo multiple closes.

F6

Quickly get to the URL address bar by pressing this function key.

Ctrl + F or /

Pressing Ctrl + F will open the find feature. Using this you can quickly find text within the same page. If you wish to do a quick find and have Firefox scroll to the text location as you type press forward slash (/) instead while in the browser.

Ctrl + W

Close the tab you're currently in.

Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Move between open tabs.

Ctrl + D

Open bookmark window for page currently viewing.

Ctrl + <plus>, Ctrl + <minus>, and Ctrl + 0

Pressing Ctrl + <plus symbol> will increase the font size, pressing Ctrl + <minus symbol> will decrease the font size, and if you wish to reset the font size back to the default press Ctrl + 0.

F11

Make the screen full screen, removing all toolbars and status bars.

Ctrl + J

Open the Download Manager window.

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