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I don't know if it's helpful to you or anyone else here, but I started recently to mainly navigate the we with Ctrl-F and tab/shift-tab in my browser (Firefox so far but thit works with Chrome too). I find it's more convenient.

For example:

1. Open Google in a new private/incognito window.

2. Ctrl-F "accept all" or a substring of that.

3. Press escape.

4. Press tab/shift-tab to find out where you are (Chrome and Firefox would be focused at different but similar places right now) and navigate to the "accept all" button.

5. Enter to accept.

You can do the same for links (the Google website is just an example). If you type "json wikipedia" in Google search and press enter to go to the results page, you can:

1. Ctrl-F "json - w"

2. Press escape and then enter to go to the highlighted link (in this case, the Wikipedia article on JSON).

I still have to reach for the mouse sometimes, but I find it helpful for reducing reliance on it/context switching and you/others might too.



Like Quick Find? The apostrophe? '

I agree this style of navigation is great. I don't know if it's in Chrome, though.


Try surfingkeys. You'll likely like it.


Thanks! It looks interesting. I’ll try it out hopefully. I did try a Vim-style extension out once but don’t remember why I didn’t stick with it.




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