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Another tweak: If there's a very unique string close to the thing you want to click, you can press / to open "Quick find" (for all text). Search for the string, then use Tab and Shift-Tab to jump to your thing.

Back in the old days, I used the Vimperator and Pentadactyl extensions for even more keyboard awesomeness, don't know what's the current state of the art there?

But the ' key is… just always there! I wanna practice using it a lot!

Like 11 June at 17:27 | Open on chaos.social

8 comments

Smoljaguar

@blinry / works similarly to ctrl-f, but if there are multiple occurences then ctrl-f lets you choose which one you want to go to, which is why I generally prefer it

11 June at 17:30 | Open on spacey.space

Smoljaguar

@blinry another tip: if ctrl-f is blocked on a website, ctrl-g also works as an equivalent.
One trick I use a lot is * in the address bar to search bookmarks, % to search tabs

11 June at 17:45 | Open on spacey.space

Hugo 雨果

@Smoljaguar @blinry Another tip: if a website hijacks ctrl+f, focus the address bar and then press ctrl+f.

11 June at 20:28 | Open on fosstodon.org

Matthias Schmidt

@blinry '/' is also a nice shortcut! 👍 websites match their internal search functions to this key so ' seems to be the safer choice.

11 June at 17:34 | Open on cybervillains.com

Moravian Kaleidoscopy Ltd🇺🇦

@blinry there's Tridactyl and Vim Vixen (last updated 3y ago). But ' might replace the former for me, thanks.

11 June at 17:43 | Open on witter.cz

Ilkka Tengvall

@blinry except when it's not. Greetings from nordics layout where it's not.

11 June at 18:19 | Open on mementomori.social

ScriptFurax ⏚ ⸫

@blinry
Oh way vimperator, I remember. Those were the days

11 June at 21:55 | Open on maly.io

gunstick

@blinry as an old vim user (like forever, I mean 30+ years) I use always / to search. You may be surprised in how many other programs this is an alias for ctrl-F

11 June at 22:32 | Open on mastodon.opencloud.lu