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Mouseless Browsing in Firefox - Today's Browser Tip
by Jordan Running Jan 27th 2006 at 7:00AM
Lifehacker's Adam Pash made a nice post
last year about using
Firefox without a mouse. Firefox has a lot of handy keyboard shortcuts, but in the end it's hard to be as efficient
without a mouse as with. Regular readers know where I'm headed with this: An extension to remedy that. Mouseless Browsing is an extension for Firefox that aims, in
the words of its developers, to "enable browsing only by using the numpad keys." It does this by displaying
uniqued ID numbers next to important elements--links, form fields, and so on--that you can punch in on the numeric
keypad. This reminds me of browsing in text-mode from the console.
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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
rfcn said 9:12AM on 1-27-2006
woah, i get redirected to paypal when i follow the link from the picture!
but i looked it up on the ff-site..
good find!
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geek said 2:52AM on 1-28-2006
Oh please, mouseless browsing in ff sucks bigtime. What if you have to open a page in the background, or in a newtab? You can't.
Now if you are using Opera, then that s god! Just press ctrl+b to get a list of all keyboard shortcuts and the spatial navigation guide. shift+arrow to move in links
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ezuk said 8:45AM on 1-29-2006
Hit-a-Hint (HaH) is another FF extension which does the same thing, but much better. The main advantage is that it hides the hints when you don't need them -- "mouseless browsing" allows you to toggle, but it's clumsier.
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