Scroll With Your Space Bar

Who knew your space bar could be so much fun? Well maybe fun isn’t the right word in this situation. It is handy though for those of use who kind of sit funny at the keyboard and don’t always have the mouse handy. You can scroll down a Web page quickly by using your space bar in Firefox.

Yeah, that is pretty much it. When you are on a Web page that is very long, just click your space bar button when you want to go down. Click it again to go down a little more. Click it some more, and you will find yourself at the bottom of the Web page in no time at all. Want to know what Wikipedia has to say about the space bar key?

Space bar is a key on an alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row, significantly wider than other keys. Its main purpose is to conveniently enter the space, e.g., between words during typing. Users typically use their thumbs to press it. It is large enough so that a thumb from either hand can use it easily.

Depending on the operating system, the space bar used with a modifier key such as the control key may have functions such as resizing or closing the current window.

In computer games and other applications the key has myriad uses in addition to its normal purpose in typing.

See you got a two for one deal here. I gave you a Firefox tip and a good definition for a key on your keyboard you use everyday. Have any other Firefox tips worth mentioning? Let me know!