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I am on NYT website second page , how do I get back to main page as key board short cut

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I have gone to another page on website ie NYT or medical journal on web , I have read the article now I want to go back to main menu, Any keyboard short cuts other than back back etc.

I have gone to another page on website ie NYT or medical journal on web , I have read the article now I want to go back to main menu, Any keyboard short cuts other than back back etc.

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How do I get back to my original page after reading several articles from that page {Mac user}

You've indicated a preference for keyboard shortcuts. There is no keyboard shortcut to go back a known or unknown number of pages within the same tab without using BACK, BACK, BACK ("Alt+left-arrow" {"command+left-arrow"}). There are a couple of exceptions to this.

Suppose NYT is your home page and you want to throw away everything in the tab with Ctrl+W {command+W} (was close the window but with tabs that is now close the Tab). So you do that and then you want to reopen your home page use "Alt+Home" {"Option+Home"}.

Another way of doing but without NYT being your home page, would be to make a bookmark with a keyword shortcut such as "NYT:" or "NYT". So you would do exactly the same time as before but instead of bringing up your home page use the keyword shortcut to bring your NYT page. I recommend "Add Bookmark Here ²" extension (60.4 KB) for working with keyword shortcuts and its additional bookmarking features (additional documentation).

If you change your method of browsing to try to keep Tabs with only one level in them then you can use keyboard shortcuts to close each tab after reading it. There are two main methods of reading reading articles. Say we start with a bunch of blogs in a bookmark folder and open that folder into tabs as a starting point.

One method is to read the main blogs without interruption except to open links in the background at the far right end of the tabs bar for later viewing (Firefox 2 method). Closing articles when finished and you can check the Back/Forward arrows to be sure you have nothing back or forward in a tab before closing it.

The other is to keep interrupting what you are reading, by opening into a new tab in the foreground and reading that before continuing where you left off (Firefox 3). As with the other method, closing articles when finished and you can check the Back/Forward arrows to be sure you have nothing back or forward in a tab before closing it.

You can read about setting up opening tabs at the far right as in Firefox 2, or opening tabs next to the parent article as in Firefox 3. The Firefox 3 method is going to present problems no matter how you work it, when dealing with sub articles next to the parent or to that of an offspring.

You can read more about opening tabs and Order of Tabs in Tabs Bar -- Tests.


Just want to make sure this question was not based on there being no drop-down on the Back/Forward toolbar buttons -- you now use right-click to provide you with the same list as before old stuff on button, new stuff on top (limit of seeing 15 items in list at a time).

You can make Firefox 5.0 look like Firefox 3.6.19, see numbered items 1-10 in the following topic Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 5.0, or 4.0.1, look like 3.6). Whether or not you make changes, you should be aware of what has changed and what you have to do to use changed or missing features.

A page on helping you with Research and Documentation:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Tools_for_copying_text_and_other_content_from_web_pages

Modified by David McRitchie