I spend a solid majority of my day, every day, online. I use no fewer than five different browsers on a reasonably regular basis, use all kinds of different web apps, and somehow feel naked if I’m not connected to the Internet. Sad? Nah.

As such, I’ve started to find some ways to make surfing the Web easier, faster, and generally better. Though every browser has its own shortcuts and tips, there are also many that work regardless of what browser you’re in.

Here are 10 tips for improving your browsing experience, no matter what browser you’re using.

1. Backpedal Want to go back, but three pages? Instead of clicking the “back” button over and over, right-click it. You’ll get a list of your recently visited websites, and you can go back as far as you need to.

2. Back to the Future I love keyboard shortcuts; they just make browsing faster and easier. It’s easy to go backwards and forwards in your browser, among your recent pages, using the Alt key (next to the spacebar). Hit alt-left (the directional button) to go back, and alt-right to go forward

3. Just the Basics Most websites start with “www” and end with “.com”. Your browser knows this. For some browsers, all you need to do is type the page title (try “the20life”). For others, though, type the website name and hit control-enter. This loads the www and the .com automatically, saving you the annoyance of doing so.

4. Try New Things I don’t like going back and forth, particularly to and from Google search results. Instead, right click on the link you want to open. Your browser will give you the option to open the link either in a new window or a new tab. It makes using tabs easier, and saves you the hassle of constantly moving around your history.

5. Where’s It At? Press control-F. Then start typing the word you’re looking for. Your browser will find instances of that word on the page, and navigate around them. Particularly if you’re looking for one specific thing, using Find is better than scanning the whole page to find what you’re looking for.

6. Go Big Computer screens are limited, and sometimes you need all the space- for a large game, long article, etc. No problem- just hit F11, and everything gets removed from the screen except the content of the page. Press it again, and it restores the browser as it was.

7. Resizification I occasionally get complaints from people saying “the text is too small, I can’t read it!” To avoid making an age joke, I’ll solve the problem, and it’s something you do. Type control-+ to make text in the browser bigger, and control-dash (-) to make text smaller. It works on almost any page, in almost any browser.

8. Administrative Assistance The Web is full of forms to fill out. Instead of clicking around from box to box, fill in one box and press Tab. It’ll go to the next box, and let you fill out forms faster. To go backwards among the boxes, press Shift-Tab. Filling out pages without the mouse is a huge time-saver for me.

9. Open and Close Sesame What Firefox and others started, most browsers now support: tabs. You don’t need 10 windows open to be on 10 sites at once- just open them in tabs! And, using the keyboard, that’s even faster to do. Control-T opens a new tab, with the cursor in the address bar. When you’re done, control-W closes the current tab.

10. Tab Jumping Tabs are a major part of how I browse, and I bet are for many others. I tend to often have a lot of tabs open, dealing with a number of things at once. To navigate them even better, flip through your Tabs using Control-Tab. To go backwards through your tabs, or back to the one you went past too quickly, type Control-Shift-Tab.