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Keyboard surfing


I assume you know you can use the [tab] key to move from link to link in most browsers. With Opera you can press shift and use the arrow keys to move from link to link on a page. Enter still opens em just like with tab, shift enter opens the link in a new tab. Pressing enter holding down shift + ctrl opens the tab in the background! Just navigate down the links (holding shift) and also press control as you "Enter" em. Now use the keys "2" and "1" to navigate from page to page. Google sometimes gives huge pages for search results. CTRL+F pops up a search box where you can type a few letters of the word your looking for. Escape closes the search box but you can still press F3 to jump to the next instance of the text. Even if the text is on the page 20 times you will find it. Can set it to work from the toolbar with:"use inline find in page" Now ctrl+f puts the cursor in the search box but enter no longer opens the page (giggle) you have to use tab to get out of the search box to get enter to work. We do not want this because closing the search popup with escape is easier and after that Enter opens the page just the same way. Only navigating with shift you can Press ctrl+M to obtain the right click popup thingy. You don't really need it as you can press shift to get it a new tab and ctrl to prevent it getting the focus. Ok, lets go to google and try that Spatial navigation>>