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Keyboard Navigation for Google
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nontroppo:
There is a pretty cool experimental feature for Google search enabling keyboard navigation. To enable this in Opera's search term, Preferences > Search > Google > Edit and change the URL to (note &esrch=BetaShortcuts is all I've added):
--- ---http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&esrch=BetaShortcuts
Then after doing a "g searchterm", you use:
--- ---Key Action
--------------------------------------------
J Selects the next result.
K Selects the previous result.
O Opens the selected result.
<Enter> Opens the selected result.
/ Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc> Removes the cursor from the search box.
I normally use Opera excellent spatial navigation and fast-forward and back, but this is a nice addition. You can make this change in Firefox at least though I've forgotten how.
Test it here...
nontroppo:
And if you want the Alternate views enhancement, add &esrch=RefinementBarTopViewTabs to the search URL.
http://www.google.com/experimental/#RefinementBarTopViewTabs
nontroppo:
By the way, for Opera users not wanting to use the Google-specific keyboard options here are the analagous functions in the default keymap:
--- ---Key Action
-----------------------
Shift+Down Selects the next result.
Shift+Up Selects the previous result.
<Enter> Opens the selected result.
Tab Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc> Removes the cursor from the search box.
icekin:
Neat work. On Firefox, I use <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6575">Google Ctrl+Arrow</a>, which loads as a Greasemonkey script. Haven't tried it on Opera.
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