Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 9 beta, the upcoming version of the most popular web browser in the world. We are totally impressed with the features of Internet Explorer 9. It’s lightweight, fast and easy to use. The efficiency of the IE 9 can be improved by using a set of keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts in Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 8 are almost the same. Here we have compiled a list of most commonly used shortcuts that will work with Internet Explorer 9.
Bookmark any website in Internet Explorer 9 – use Ctrl+D shortcut.
Open a new Tab in IE 9 – use Ctrl+T shortcut.
Search anything in a web page opened in Internet Explorer 9 – use Ctrl+F shortcut.
Open a new window Ctrl+N.
Close an existing window Ctrl+W.
Increase of decrease the text or page size in Internet Explorer 9 by pressing Ctrl++ or Ctrl- – until the desired size is achieved.
Delete browser history in Internet Explorer 9 – use shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Delete.
Use the private browsing feature in IE 9 with Ctrl+Shift+P.
Refresh a web page: F5
View the web page in full size: F11.
Open all browsing history, subscribed feeds and favorite in the IE 9 sidebar: Alt+C.
The keyboard shortcut to all developer shortcuts in IE 9 -F12
Open the new download manager introduced in Internet Explorer 9 – Ctrl+J.
Internet Explorer 9 has a special feature that lets you create a shortcut of any web page on to the Taskbar. To do this, just drag and drop the favicon of the desired website to the Taskbar and pin it.
There are a lot more keyboard shortcuts for Internet Explorer 9. This is only a random list of shortcuts that will also work with other web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome.
bryn_ieteam says
Thanks for sharing this post regarding Internet Explorer 9!
Have you used the Ctrl+T shortcut to visit the Beauty of the Web website? If not you should check it out:
http://www.beautyoftheweb.com
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Bryn
IE Outreach Team
Dwight L says
Thank you for listing important IE 9 shortcuts. There is some error in the list, it seems that the 4th and 5th ones are interchanged. When you type Ctrl+W in Internet Explorer 9, it will close your existing window, instead of opening one.
Neo says
thx
IE 9 seems cool
lets see when its out
john a werneken says
1. alt menu enabling as default should not require searching/findinbg/installing registry zip files. glad i found one, it works- can see file-edit-view-etc menu by default.
2. where is the browsing history to be found? so far, nbo idea
3. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories for example is a moderately long page where mouse scrolll is VERY slow, no idea why.
john a werneken says
aha. history = alt-c. this sux. but works.