Open Search Result using Your Keyboard In Firefox

If you are a keyboard fanatic you must have found it annoying to switch to your mouse every time you search anything with Search Engines if yes then you are the right place, I came across this post over at Firefox mastery site and I think it is useful for keyboard obsessed peoples.

There are many extensions built for this purpose one of them being the Search Keys Extension which hasn’t been updated for one and a half year and I don’t expect it to be updated for FireFox 3 either.

When you search something on On search engine the first result would be labeled 1, the second result is labeled 2 and so on, pressing the corresponding key on your keyboard will open that search result in the same tab. Pressing ALT+the corresponding number will open it in a new tab and pressing SHIFT+the corresponding number will open it in a new FireFox window

The keys comma and period are used to navigate between the search results pages. This doesn’t seem to work in all search engines. A quick test revealed that all keys are still working when searching Google while the comma and period shortcuts are not working in Yahoo.

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts To Make Your Life Easier

Before Heading On make sure you have enabled keyboard shortcuts in Gmail Settings, you will find the Settings tab at the top right corner of your screen where you will see this page

Shortcuts:

Browse through mails

K: to move the black arrow upwards.

J: to move the black arrow downwards.

enter key: this is to open the mail which is indicated by black arrow

While reading the email

R: to reply to the mail

F: to forward the mail

!: to mark the mail as spam

s: to star the mail

#: to delete the mail

How to get back to inbox once mail is read

U: this brings you back to inbox if you were reading your mail

How to send an email

C: this takes you to compose the email