Here's another handy tip for using FireFox. You know the handy find-as-you -type thing? So for example you search for a recipe on say "grilled salmon" and it opens up into a long page with loads of different recipes, right? So you just start typing salmon and bingbangwang, it just straight to the first occurrence of salmon.
But then what? You want to look for the second occurrence of salmon. Well now there's a problem. Then you have to move your mouse down to the bottom of the screen, click Find Next and repeat through the document. It's a bit of a pain. What's the point of having a handy way of doing things with the keyboard if you need to use the mouse.
Well you don't and the answer was obvious. So obvious there was not much in the way of documentation or information telling you how to do it. Hit F3 and it take you to the next occurrence. The light is so bright is blinding.
Some other find-as-you-type shortcuts
- Ctrl+F or / opens the toolbar.
- Esc closes the toolbar.
- Enter finds the next match, if you are in the toolbar, search box. (Also F3, Ctrl+G.)
- Shift+Enter finds the previous match. (Also Shift+F3, Ctrl+Shift+G.)
There is also a "links-only" mode, which is intended to make it possible to follow links using only the keyboard:
- ' (single-quote) opens the toolbar in links-only mode.
- In links-only mode, Enter follows the found link because the link has focus.

1. Gordon
The sign of a good product, there is more depth there than you realise.
about:cache is my recent find.
2. abi
ooo, yes, so it does. that has been bugging me for a while.
cheers.
3. Chris
How do you turn OFF the single quote find feature. It’s driving me crazy. Every time I’m on certain forums, and I type any word that needs an apostrophe, I am suddenly typing in the find box!! It’s so crazy! Then, I have to close the find box, click back in the box I was typing a message in, and try to keep going. Can I change the single quote to some other keystroke?
4. Adrian
I bit of google searching gives the Mozilla, Find As You Type information pages.
Either hit escape or turn off find as you type.