Control address bar access in Firefox with the old shortcut [F6](Firefox)

               So far, you could jump directly to the entry in the address bar by pressing the [F6] key. However, from version 4 onwards, pressing F6 takes you to the current active tab.

               With [F6], the focus always shifts to the topmost element in the window. As it is the tab bar, the active tab is selected. However, pressing [Tab] once again is enough to set the cursor in the address bar. In the newer versions of Firefox pressing F6 will focus on the active tab instead of the address bar. You can change this by deactivating the “Tabs on top” option. For this, right click in a free area in the tab bar and deactivate the “Tabs on top” option. After this address bar will become the top most element followed by the tab bar. So when you press F6 you will be taken to top most element that is the address bar. Another easier option to reach the address bar directly is using the key combination [Ctrl] + [L

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Underline key combinations and shortcuts for direct access(Windows Vista, 7)

                While operating menus throughout Windows, you are used to seeing the respective shortcut letters that are characterized by underlines, which help you learn how to quickly use keyboard shortcuts.

                Since Vista, the underlining of shortcut keys in menus for better readability is turned off as a standard setting. This practical and unobtrusive help function can be quickly activated again in the ‘Ease of Access Center’.
                For this, click in the Control Panel on ‘Ease of Access’ and then on ‘Ease of Access Center’. There, follow the link ‘Make the keyboard easier to use’. Activate the option ‘Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys’. Confirm the dialogue with ‘Apply’ and ‘OK’ one after the other (or ‘Save’ in Vista). The change is active without a restart. However, these underline hints are not present everywhere; they are mainly there in the classic menus and, for example, not in the Windows Explorer toolbar.

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Upgrade individual menus with important functions(Chrome)

              You hopelessly look for certain functions in the minimalistic menu of Chrome. You want easier access to some things and setup your own menu.

              Google itself offers the Chrome Toolbox that allows you to easily configure browser functions used most frequently. It can be downloaded and installed from 'chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fjccknnhdnkbanjilpjddjhmkghmachn'.
              Once installed, you can access the Toolbox via an icon in the menu bar. Using Toolbox, you can save form data, mute tabs, open last closed tabs, etc. There is also a key combination for every command. However, you will have to personally adjust the menu selection with the “Options” command. The settings required for that are given in the “Shortcuts & Menu” tab. Here you can find Chrome’s keyboard shortcuts and add them to the quick access drop down menu of the Toolbox. You can also define keyboard shortcuts for Boss Key, Quick Launch, Fill Form and Mute all Tabs. You can activate other useful options like moving icon bars for photos and videos from the “General Tab”. With the “Compare shortcuts with other browsers” option, you can use the extensive lists to directly compare and study the key combinations of the viewed browsers.

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Automatically display page breaks in Excel(Excel 2003, 2007, 2010)

                You would like to control the page breaks regularly for a printable configuration of tables and so you are looking for an option to turn on the page break display.

                In Excel you can easily view the page breaks by selecting the Page Break Preview option. You can also change to normal view again and see the dotted markings of the paging there. However, it remains only so long as the worksheet is open. Once you reopen the worksheet you will have to redo the Page Break Preview in order to see the page breaks. You can easily automate the Page Break Preview option with the help of a simple Macro.
               Open the relevant workbook and then VBA editor with the key combination [Alt] + [F11]. Now search the open file to the upper left in the project explorer and find “This workbook” in the structure below it.
               Open the related code window on it with a double click. If the code frame is no prepared yet, open via the upper combination fields “Workbook” and “Open”. Then enter the code as under:

Private Sub Workbook _ Open()
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.
Sheets.Count
Sheets(i).
DisplayAutomaticPageBreaks =
True
Next i
End Sub

Save the macro and close the workbook. Make sure that the Macros are active for the workbook, when you open the file next time the sheets will automatically have the page breaks. If you have added new sheets you will have to save the workbook and reopen them to see the changes. If the preview is not required later, remove the Macro from the workbook.

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Cancel hanging tabs or tools individually.(Google Chrome)

             Individual scripts or websites are sometimes defective and hang, or an add-on in the browser starts giving problems. Restarting the browser is what you usually need to do.

             Chrome is the first browser to introduce a consistent separation of individual tabs at the process level. You can check that when you start the task manager with many tabs open in the browser. Press the key combination [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Esc] and switch to the ‘Processes’ tab. For instance, if there are four tabs open, you will see the ‘chrome.exe’ process displayed at least five times. You can end the processes here itself but you cant see which process entry belongs to which tab.
              It is this information that the internal task manager of Chrome provides. You can call it up from the Chrome program window either by pressing the key combination [Shift]+[Esc] or by right clicking a free spot above the address bar and selecting the context command ‘Task Manager’. The following dialog shows the tab or plug-in to which the process is correlated. Select the desired entry and click ‘End process’.
              You can call up detailed information about memory usage of individual processes via the link ‘Statistics for nerds’ and thus identify which websites are low on memory. Moreover, the overview also shows the memory requirements of all other currently open browsers. You can thus end a hanging Flash Player without problems or close a tab with defective websites without affecting the remaining browsers. The closed page displays a message in the tab, thus enabling immediate reloading of the page.

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