Scroll back and forward through visited Firefox pages

Oct 19, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I just discovered that holding Control and Option, and then moving the scroll wheel on my mouse moves me forward or back through the pages I've visited in Firefox.

[robg adds: It took me a bit to figure this one out, as I thought it was referring to Firefox's history. It's not. Instead, it works to scroll through the pages you've loaded within one tab of Firefox. So if you go from hints to apple.com to cnn.com, you can then use Control-Option-scroll to cycle between all three of those sites.

The other reason I had trouble testing is that I was originally in Firefox 2 beta -- I switched a month or so ago, and had forgotten about it. Control-option scrolling in the beta just resizes text on the current page. A bit of brief experimentation, though, shows that Command-Option and scroll does the forward/back trick in the beta.]

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