If you use Firefox, you know there’s a handy little web search box in the top-right corner. And hopefully you know that you can press the Ctrl+K shortcut combination (on Windows) to put focus in the search box. You hit Enter to run the search in the current tab or Alt+Enter to run the search in a new tab. But did you know that you can press Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down to change the target search engine?
This is Derek Hatchard's blog. The general theme around here is "improving experiences" which includes managing technology, user experiences,
life hacking, and some business related stuff. Derek has a
software development blog at ardentdev.com, is co-founder of the product review
site wellrated.com,
and runs Crowd Space (a management tool for people, lists, and events).



I did not know this! Thanks man – you’ve just saved me 1-2 seconds x 100 times per day!