alifeee's notes - using the surfingkeys browser extension

using the surfingkeys browser extension # source

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

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.