Please shoot me. As long as I have been using Firefox, I only today tripped across this Lifehacker post from November of 2005: Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox Whoa.
One of my most bemoaned activities in life was browsing the internet because I always thought it had to be so damned inefficient. Yeah, I could get to the address bar (CTRL + L), use a keyword for any bookmarks (right-click a bookmark, enter a keyword into the Keyword field, type the keyword into the location bar + Enter), or launch a Google search in a new tab from the toolbar (modify about:config together with CTRL + K), but I still had to use the mouse to click links. Yuck!
I normally don’t do short posts, but I’m banking on the fact that some of you may not have seen it either. Very cool stuff!
September 10, 2007 at 7:42 pm
It was published on Tue Nov 29 2005, that’s why I’ve never seen it. But cool find regardless.
September 10, 2007 at 8:18 pm
EB,
I can’t use that excuse since I only subscribed to Lifehacker 3 months ago. I’m just glad I found it at all. It’s always like finding treasure when you discover features for something you already use!
Thanks for reading,
mark
September 13, 2007 at 6:10 pm
This is a nice find. I love firefox and keyboard shortcuts.
September 13, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Gameswag,
Thanks! Same here.
I’ve only within the last few months really re-dedicated my efforts to using more shortcuts, and it’s made a real improvement in my productivity.
mark