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using the surfingkeys browser extension # prev single next top

tags: browser-extension, surfingkeys, websites • 391 'words', 117 secs @ 200wpm full width

Surfingkeys is a cool browser extension.

It does many, many things, but I mainly use it to click links and browser between webpages without using a mouse.

With it installed, I can visit a webpage like:

Celeste is a 2018 platform game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_game…

…developed and published by Indie studio Maddy Makes Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddy_Makes_Games.

The player controls Madeline, a young woman with anxiety and depression who endeavors to…

…climb Celeste Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Celeste.

During her climb, she encounters several characters, including a personification of her self-doubt named Badeline, who attempts to stop her from reaching the mountain's summit.

…press f, and all the clickable links are highlighted with letters (here "a", "s", and "d"). I can then press these letters to "click" the corresponding links.

Celeste is a 2018 platform game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_game…
                                                       a
…developed and published by Indie studio Maddy Makes Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddy_Makes_Games.
                                                                                    s
The player controls Madeline, a young woman with anxiety and depression who endeavors to…

…climb Celeste Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Celeste.
                                                 d
During her climb, she encounters several characters, including a personification of her self-doubt named Badeline, who attempts to stop her from reaching the mountain's summit.

It is super neat.

It has a lot of other features that I don't use; lots of them are based on Vim keybindings (which I don't use). But, the things I do use are:

• f to highlight all clickable elements and links, then the corresponding highlights to click them
• i which is the same as f but only for inputs like text forms
• gu (go up one subdirectory) or gs (go to page source) or g# (go to page without hashlink) to modify the URL
• ya to highlight all links on the page, and the shown keys copy the links
• zv to select an element, to copy it with CTRL+V (this enters Vim cursor/select mode, which I've not used, so mainly just confuses me)

Sometimes Surfingkeys interferes with the keybindings or JavaScript of a website, and makes it weird. These times, I turn it off with Alt + s.

Overall, I find it pretty neat.