Comments on: A browser tip I should have known before…

By: Anon Ymouse

Anon Ymouse — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:55:16 +0000

Good tip, thanks for sharing!

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:21:39 +0000

I’ve got conkeror on one machine. It’s OK, but I think it lacked the middle-click URL pasting that Geoff describes and it was fiddly to copy the current page URL, so I don’t use it everywhere.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:19 +0000

Ctrl+K to jump the cursor into the search bar, selecting any/all existing text in the process, is one I only learned of a few months ago(and Ctrl+L to jump into the location bar too).

I also learned a bit earlier than I did about Ctrl+K, about how the Linux version of Firefox recognizes X’s selection buffer. Select the text of a URL and just middle click inside the page display area to go to that address. Text (ie: non-link) URLS that span multiple lines? Just select em and middle click, none of this select the first line and paste into the location bar before selecting the next line and appending it to the previous in the location bar. Just select and middle click!

Using apostrophe to search for links is in this list of shortcuts I found after first learning about Ctrl+K/L – it shouldn’t be news to me but I suppose I didn’t read it very thoroughly.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:14:55 +0000

You use emacs?
Try conkeror: http://conkeror.org/
I bet you will like it

By: secure

secure — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:46:41 +0000

Have a look at http://www.vimperator.org/ to make firefox finally usable.

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:41 +0000

I like accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart=true, and accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly=true so I don’t even have to press ‘ to start nagivating by links. It’s an old Mozilla feature that they kept but removed all the UI for, IOW you’re not supposed to find it.

Shell-wise I love Ctrl-R to search previous commands, and Alt-. to insert the last argument of the previous command. I recently discovered you can prefix that with Alt-number to get the n-th last argument.

By: ambrose

ambrose — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:45 +0000

Gone are the days when we could study the menus and have a fairly good idea of what commands are available. Modern GUI’s present us with a bewildering array of icons (many of which have no obvious meanings), keyboard “shortcuts” (that are shortcuts of nothing), inexplicable double clicks (that are, again, shortcuts of nothing), and an unknown amount of other magic. Sad.