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Going (almost) mouseless: browsers

Bartosz Gordon on January 19, 2019

In this post, I'm going to use the Firefox browser's shortcuts as an example. Most of them should work in other — webkit based — browsers too. Pr...
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Andrew Bone

CTRL + SHIFT + T is useful it reopens the last closed tab

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Bartosz Gordon

Definitely, I like it so much. It deserved the LEVEL 1 section :)

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Eakan

Not sure if the following shortcuts you mentioned with Alt is something operating system specific.
But on windows 10 for me, it is definitely Ctrl and not Alt.

Go to the n-th tab — Ctrl+ N (works for 1st-8th tab)
Go to the last tab — Ctrl+ 9

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Bartosz Gordon

As far as I know, prefixes may differ based on the operating system. I added an additional info about this particular problem to the beginning of the article :)

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Jérémy Lal

Seconded. While i hate learning odd shortcuts (think vim) i am totally fond of not having to move the arm to get that mouse to do a trivial task like click "ok". The more i get old, the more i understand how one can go from "that's cool" to "that's necessary". Accessibility rules !

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Nans Dumortier

Hey! Great article :)
Do you plan to write other articles, like "Going almost mouseless: code editor" or something like that ? I think it would be nice !

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Bartosz Gordon

Hi, thank you! Yes, that's the plan, the next article is going to be about editors :)

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Nans Dumortier

Alright, you earned a new follower 😁

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Porkopek

I'm like you, I hate to interrupt my productivity by grabbing the mouse. That's why I've created an extension (well, a little js snippet) that helps me to focus on search text boxes by pressing the Esc key. Works on most sites

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

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Andrei Gatej

Here's another one: ALT + D + ENTER - duplicate tab

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Akash Agarwal

I'm telling ya Vimium is the way!

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Bartosz Gordon

You got me, Vimium 4 life :) I've been using it for 2 months, ever since I entirely switched to VIM. There's no place like home row :)

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Bartosz Gordon

Thank you. I added an additional info about this particular problem to the beginning of the article :)

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Jérémy Lal

For example ctrl+enter works here...