Alt KEY

Alt+C – Opens the Favorites, History window, Feeds. Alt+X – Opens the Tools menu. Alt+Left – Moves back through your history. Alt+Right – Moves forward through your history. Alt+M – Takes you to the homepage. Alt+X – Open Tools. Alt+5 – Force IE 5 rendering mode. Alt+7 – Force IE 7 rendering mode. Alt+8 – Force IE8 rendering mode. Alt+9 – Force IE9 rendering mode. Alt+N – When downloading Alt+N put focus in the new Notification bar, you can then the Run/Open, Save, or Cancel button to interact with what you are downloading.

  Ctrl KEY

Ctrl+D – Adds the current page to your Favorites ( or bookmarks). Ctrl+B – Organize your Favorites. Ctrl+K – Duplicates your current Tab. Ctrl+J – Opens the Download Manager. Ctrl+Alt+P – Opens an InPrivate browsing session. Ctrl+L – Sets focus to the address bar (One Bar), and selects the current URL. Ctrl+Tab – Switch between Tabs. Ctrl+Shift+L – In the case that you have a URL or any content in the clipboard, this keyboard shortcut will load it and if it was a URL will take you to the site and if it was a search term will use your default search engine to look for the term, pretty handy!

  F KEY

F12 – Opens the developer console. F5 – Refresh. F11 – Full screen. F7 – Caret browsing. ESC – Stop loading the web page.

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