Search Keys Firefox extension for the accessibility and the keyboard-loving

Jesse Ruderman has just rolled out the amazing Search Keys Firefox extension that:

lets you go to search results by pressing the number of the search result instead of clicking

Its premise is simple, but it’s so darn useful to people like me. I’m a keyboard- and keyboard shortcut-loving person, so this is another extension I’ve added to my must-install list (of extensions). I can imagine this does heaps for accessibility as well.

It works in “Google, Google News, Google Groups, Google Desktop Search, del.icio.us, and Bugzilla” at this time (most important being the Google support of course). You can see the numbers next to the links in Google search results pages, and you can open the link you want in a new tab by pressing Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2 and so on.

Screenshot of Google search results with Search Keys in action


It also works for del.icio.us bookmark links.

Screenshot of del.icio.us page with Search Keys in action


A big pat on the back for Jesse.

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Michael Fagan's Gravatar

Have you tried http://labs1.google.com/keys/ ?

Posted by: Michael Fagan on October 16, 2004 3am

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Groovy Links's Gravatar

Search Keys extension for Firefox
http://blog.codefront.net/archives/ 2004/10/16/search-keys-extension/

Posted by: Groovy Links on October 16, 2004 4am

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Cheah Chu Yeow's Gravatar

Hmm… Google Keys looks great! But I couldn’t get it to work right now (searching gives a blank page, in both Firefox and IE). Will check back later.

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on October 16, 2004 12pm

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rem's Gravatar

Out of curiosity - what is your list of must-install extensions for Firefox?

Posted by: rem on October 17, 2004 2am

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Marc's Gravatar

The latest version supports several types of Yahoo! searches as well (I know because I added those features). Other extensions to check out if you are a keyboard lover: hit-a-hint and conkeror (makes Firefox Emacsish - quite amazing).

Posted by: Marc on April 18, 2005 2pm

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