As far as I know, the closest thing to what you want is the Navigate Up add-on.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/navigate-up/
  • Alt + Up Arrow goes up one level.
  • Double-clicking the toolbar icon goes up to the root level.

I dont think that my requirement should be very difficult for a Add On developer. What the shortcut needs to do is to truncate the web page url upto the first "/" and redirect the page . This should work for most of the websites, I presume.

Thanks. Almost meets my expectation. Just hoping to have a shortcut key which will take me directly to the Home page and not just one level up.

Is it that hard to click on the BBC logo in the upper left corner of each web page on that website to to go back to the index page?

"I don't think that my requirement should be very difficult for a Add On developer ...."
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Building_an_Extension

Use the below link for short cut keys

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?redirectlocale=en-US&as=u&redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&utm_source=inproduct#w_navigation

@ the-edmeister These days a number of website designs involve adding content to the web page as you keep scrolling down. Soon you will reach so far down that it will take you ages to scroll back up and then click on the logo. So then your best bet is do a Ctrl+Home and then click on the logo.

You can assign this code to a specific shortcut key:

window.location.replace(window.location.protocol+"//"+window.location.hostname);

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_extension
• http://dorando.emuverse.com/projects/mozilla/readme.html

@lalithashalini I had browsed this page before posting my query, but didnt find the shortcut I was looking for. Were you able to find the shortcut that I want? If yes, then please let me know which is it.

The way I would surf the BBC main page is that when I want to read a listed article, I would middle-click that article to have it open in a new tab. When I finished reading that article I would close that tab and return to the main or index page in the original tab, hopefully with that page in the same position as I left that page.

akrsrivastava wrote:

I dont think that my requirement should be very difficult for a Add On developer.

You can contact the developer of Navigate Up and suggest adding a keyboard shortcut for navigating to the root of the site. See the "Support E-mail" link on the right side of the aforementioned page:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/navigate-up/

akrsrivastava wrote:

I had browsed this page before posting my query, but didnt find the shortcut I was looking for.

There's no built-in keyboard shortcut for navigating to the root of a site. You can use the keyconfig add-on mentioned above to define your own keyboard shortcuts for custom actions.

• https://support.mozilla.org/questions/987690#answer-538024