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.