Again, RTFM - ctrl-enter opens a link in a new tab, and shift-enter opens it in a new window. You still count that as "two" keystrokes, but Firefox is quite usable without a mouse.

Also, I reworded my above post - you only need one keyboard combo to close a window or a tab (ctrl-w or ctrl-F4 alternatively).

I have read the manual. I know you can use shift-enter. But that takes too much time - you'd need to tab through the links to get the focus to the link you want to follow before you can shift-enter it. Works OK on simple pages with a couple of links, but not on the majority of pages - including here on Perlmonks. Too many links. Note that I never indicated I wanted to use the browser without a mouse. I know you can do that - it's just not always the most efficient way to navigate.

I like my F3 key. Which kills the window having focus. Any window, including a window that happens to be a browser. (Or rather, hitting F3 asks the application to remove the window - if the application is unresponsive - like browsers often are - shift-F3 kills it).

I don't understand why you want to get me hooked on Firefox though. It's the son of the son of Netscape. And whether it's called Netscape, Mozilla or Firefox, it sucks.

You misunderstand me - I'm not interested in converting anyone over to Firefox, I'm merely pointing out the inaccuracies in your statements, for the education of others reading this, and maybe for your own. For example, it is not necessary to use the tab key to navigate through the links. You can either enable the so called caret browsing mode by pressing F7, which is well suited to keyboard-only navigation and scrolling, or, as I prefer to do, use the / or ' to jump to text respectively links in the page by entering parts of the text.