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Search Keys Firefox extension for the accessibility and the keyboard-loving
In: Mozilla
16 Oct 2004Jesse 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.
It also works for del.icio.us bookmark links.
A big pat on the back for Jesse.
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5 Responses to Search Keys Firefox extension for the accessibility and the keyboard-loving
Michael Fagan
October 16th, 2004 at 3am
Have you tried http://labs1.google.com/keys/ ?
Groovy Links
October 16th, 2004 at 4am
Search Keys extension for Firefox
http://blog.codefront.net/archives/ 2004/10/16/search-keys-extension/
Cheah Chu Yeow
October 16th, 2004 at 12pm
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.
rem
October 17th, 2004 at 2am
Out of curiosity – what is your list of must-install extensions for Firefox?
Marc
April 18th, 2005 at 2pm
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).