Tool Time Friday | Mouseless Browsing Anyone?

Mouseless Browsing (MLB) means id-based browsing.  Major goal of this extension is to enable browsing only by using the numpad keys.

Neato!

HOW DOES IT WORK…
Mouseless browsing bases on marking all links, form elements and frames with ids. If you do not like to see all of them, you can configure this in preferences dialog of MLB. You can trigger an action (e.g. following the link) by simply entering the id and depending on the configuration confirming it by pressing Enter. When the checkbox “Execute automatically…” is checked the action is automatically triggered after the specified delay for auto-execution.
* You can configure to use the numpad exclusively for Mouseless Browsing. In that mode you can trigger actions even the focus is on a textfield or selectbox. The output is suppressed. If you not use the exclusive mode then triggering actions by typing ids don’t work if the focus is on a textfield or a selectbox. Entering the id while holding the CTRL-Key triggers the action in any case. You can toggle between the two modes by pressing the num-key twice within 1 sec.
* Entering an id for a link results in navigate the browser to that link, entering an id for a form element results in clicking resp. selecting that form element. Entering an id for a frame results in focusing the frame so you can scroll the content. The ids for frames are always place in the top left corner of the frame and they have a different background color.
* By default links are opened in the same tab. If you press the ALT-key while entering the id the link is opened in a new tab. The same happens when you press the configurable postfix key (default: +) after you have typed in the id of the link.
* If you would like to select a link you have to press the configured postfix-key (default: shift) after you’ve typed in the id of the link.
* There are also the following non-visible ids which you can enter: “0″ focuses the address field, “00″ the web search field and “0″ + [1-9] activates the appropriate tab.
* Finally there are shortcuts for navigating back an forth in the history (default: divide/multiply-keys) and for scrolling up/down (default: minus/plus).

Go, man, go!

MorganLighter