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I use these two shortcuts just about every single day of my life. They help me move about the web quickly and efficiently, and I thought you might like to use them, too.

Shortcut #1: To the Next Site in the Blink of an Eye
Ctrl + L. Holding down the Ctrl key and then tapping the L key jumps my cursor up into and highlights the text in the address bar.  This allows me to immediately start typing the address of the next site I want to visit. No need to click in the address bar, no need to highlight the current URL with my cursor, no need to hit the Delete or Backspace keys to clear that text out. I just hit Ctrl + L, type the address of the next site I want to visit, hit Enter, and I’m at the next site in the blink of an eye.

Shortcut #2: Start Your Search with Lightning Speed
Ctrl + K. Like many web users, I have a Google search box in my browser’s toolbar so that I can conduct Google searches from whatever page I’m looking at; I don’t need to go to www.google.com every time I’d like to search the web. As I search many, many times a day, I find it wonderfully convenient to hold down the Ctrl key and then tap the K key to get my cursor sitting in the search box – no mouse necessary!