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hey guys I'm Sharon Vaknin frissina comm with an easy guide to customizing your own Firefox keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures with these tricks you can do things like make ctrl K close the browser window instead of ctrl W or a zigzag your mouse to open up a new tab to make custom keyboard shortcuts install the customizable shortcuts add-on from the Firefox add-on site when you restart Firefox head to tools then options and click the new tab to the right labeled shortcuts in this window you can start customizing your keyboard shortcuts just double click on any shortcut you want to change and type out the new key combination on your keyboard for example I'll change undo close tab to ctrl shift Z when you're done hit OK and test out your new shortcut so now when you close the tab by accident ctrl shift Z will open it back up gestures are a little different they let you drag your mouse in a specific pattern to complete an action for example dragging your mouse to the left will take you back a page to start using gestures you'll need it install the all-in-one gestures add-on search for it here install it and restart Firefox then head to tools add-ons extensions and click options next to the new add-on head to the gestures customization tab and you'll see a full list of Mouse gestures for example down left minimizes Firefox which means that you right-click your mouse and drag it down into the left the add-on already has dozens of preset gestures but if you want to create your own just select a shortcut click Edit gesture and type in the new motion you want to use or click draw to draw it out with your mouse you'll notice that by default a red line is drawn each time you perform a gesture to change the color or remove the line completely head back to options and change it here in the first tab now go ahead and customize your shortcuts and tell me about any other cool Firefox add-ons by tweeting me and for more awesome how to's visit how to see Netcom first seen it I'm Sharon Backman and I'll see you on the interwebs