Going from or migrating from IE to Firefox can be a little tricky when you don’t understand the terminology and a few other key aspects that will simplify your navigation experience.  To put this all simply, you will find resources in this post that will help you to familiarize yourself with Firefox.  Get used to a more secure internet!  Get into it every Friday at http://www.jenniferkorol.com!

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Migrating From Internet Explorer To Firefox (Your Tour Guide)

Source for information found here:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/For+Internet+Explorer+Users?style_mode=inproduct

Terminology Differences

About Your IE Favorites and Settings

When you first install Firefox, it will let you import your existing Internet Explorer settings, including your Favorites, cookies, stored passwords, and a variety of other data. This saves you time customizing Firefox to fit your needs. Note that you can always import your Internet Explorer settings again in the future by clicking on the File menu and selecting Import.

Keyboard Shortcuts

You will notice that Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox share many of the same shortcut keys. For a full list of shortcut keys, see the List of Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts

This is a list of keyboard shortcuts in Mozilla Firefox. If you have enabled Emacs-style text editing shortcuts in GNOME, they will also work in Firefox. When an Emacs text editing shortcut conflicts with the default shortcuts (as occurs with CtrlCmd+K), the Emacs shortcut will take preference if focus is inside a textbox (which would include the location bar and search bar). In such cases you should use the alternate keyboard shortcut if one is listed below.

Command	Shortcut
Navigation
Back	AltOpt+Left Arrow BackspaceAltOpt+Left Arrow CtrlCmd+[CtrlCmd+[ CtrlCmd+Left Arrow Delete
Forward	AltOpt+Right Arrow Shift+BackspaceAltOpt+Right Arrow CtrlCmd+]CtrlCmd+] CtrlCmd+Right Arrow Shift+Delete
Home	AltOpt+Home
Open File	CtrlCmd+O
Reload	F5 Ctrl Cmd+R
Reload (override cache)	CtrlCmd+F5 CtrlCmd+Shift+R
Stop	CtrlCmd+. Esc
Current Page
Go to Bottom of Page	End
Go to Top of Page	Home
Move to Next Frame	F6
Move to Previous Frame	Shift+F6
Page Info	CtrlCmd+I
Page Source	CtrlCmd+U
Print	CtrlCmd+P
Save Page As	CtrlCmd+S
Zoom In	CtrlCmd++
Zoom Out	CtrlCmd+-
Zoom Reset	CtrlCmd+0
Editing
Copy	CtrlCmd+C
Cut	CtrlCmd+X
Delete	Delete
Paste	CtrlCmd+V
Redo	CtrlCmd+YCtrlCmd+Shift+Z
Select All	CtrlCmd+A
Undo	CtrlCmd+Z
Search
Find	CtrlCmd+F
Find Again	F3 CtrlCmd+G
Find As You Type Link	‘
Find As You Type Text	/
Find Previous	Shift+F3
Web Search	CtrlCmd+K CtrlCmd+E Ctrl Cmd+J
Windows & Tabs (see Tabbed Browsing )
Close Tab	CtrlCmd+W Ctrl+F4
Close Window	CtrlCmd+Shift+W AltOpt+F4
Move Tab Left (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+Left Arrow CtrlCmd+Up Arrow
Move Tab Right (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+Right Arrow CtrlCmd+Down Arrow
Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused)	Ctrl Cmd+Home
Move Tab to End (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+End
New Tab	CtrlCmd+T
New Window	CtrlCmd+N
Next Tab	Ctrl+Tab CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Right Arrow Cmd+} Ctrl+Page Down
Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar)	AltOpt+EnterReturn
Previous Tab	Ctrl+Shift+Tab CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Left Arrow Cmd+{ Ctrl+Page Up
Undo Close Tab	CtrlCmd+Shift+T
Select Tab (1 to	CtrlCmdAltOpt+(1 to 8)
Select Last Tab	CtrlCmdAltOpt+9
Tools
Bookmark All Tabs	CtrlCmd+Shift+D
Bookmark This Page	CtrlCmd+D
Bookmarks	CtrlCmd+B CtrlCmd+I
Caret Browsing	F7
Downloads	CtrlCmd+JCtrlCmd+Y
History	CtrlCmd+H CtrlCmd+Shift+H
Clear Private Data	CtrlCmd+Shift+Del
Error Console	CtrlCmd+Shift+J
Miscellaneous
Complete .com Address	CtrlCmd+EnterReturn
Complete .net Address	Shift+EnterReturn
Complete .org Address	CtrlCmd+Shift+EnterReturn
Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry	DelShift+Del
Toggle Full Screen	F11
Help	F1Cmd+?
Select Location Bar	Alt+D F6 CtrlCmd+L
Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused)	AltOpt+Up Arrow AltOpt+Down Arrow F4