I've only started seriously using Mozilla's keyboard-based navigation features recently, but just as it was for tabs I am now completely lost when it doesn't work and when it's not there. I always looked funny at people that over-used their mice (eg going to "File" then "Quit" instead of the keyboard shortcut to kill/close or at least the corresponding window decoration), now I look weird at people that use them to surf the Web. I can't help thinking they must have some kind of problem.
The principle is simple: you hit some keys and it matches them within any link. Hitting enter will activate the link (Ctrl+Enter for a new tab if that option is set). Starting with "/" will make it search throughout the entire text, which is less innovatively useful but more natural than Ctrl+F. You will quickly realise that two letters is what is needed at most for the better part of your browsing. Otherwise, F3 is your friend.
I wish they had something similar for forms, I still have to use my mouse to get to those when they're too many tabs away...
Here's my new meme: Tell programmers that you heard? this one time at band camp? that if you break keyboard bindings between versions (i.e., if what worked in version N doesn't work anymore in N+1), then you get AUTOMATICALLY INDICTED under the A.D.A. and then you get sentenced to community service that consists of people with wheelchairs running you over with their big custom vans. And it's true because it happened to a guy you knew at your last job's friend!
Re:Keyboard shortcuts
darobin on 2003-04-01T11:50:07
Yes yes yes! We need to start spreading the urban myth!
I also don't understand why all apps don't have a way to configure shortcuts to your liking. Most KDE apps have that (though there needs to be a named action for things that you want to configure). I think there is little that I want more DEAD than Ctrl+Q in Mozilla. Each time I hit it by mistake it kills my twenty open tabs, the mail I was writing/reading, and all my IRC sessions. It's HELL!
