How to use keyboard navigation in nautilus when sidebar is hidden?

When sidebar is enabled and I launch Nautilus, I can navigate on entries of sidebar with up and down keys and If I press right key focus is shifted to files pane and then I can use arrow keys to navigate over files. But I want to hide sidebar by default with the given setting. Now if I launch focus is on the top bar which has different buttons. left-right arrow keys changes focused item but I cannot use down key (or any other key) to get focus on files pane. I have to click inside files pane for it (and I want to avoid this). How can I navigate to files using only keyboard?

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Ubuntu 19.10
GNOME nautilus 3.34.1 To clarify the question I want to use navigation just after launching a new nautilus window (I have already disabled sidebar).

edit2: keyboard is standard (layout) keyboard of my Lenovo laptop.

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Use the Tab key (repeatedly) to switch focus from the title bar to the files pane.

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