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massimoto
Control + Enter worked on the first three test elements for me on Chrome + Mac. I got alerts and redirects.
dannyfritz07
I'm using Firefox and the links were activated when I hit enter in the quick-find prompt. Not sure why the behavior is different than what the author is seeing.
CodeMage
When you press Enter in the search box, Firefox finds the next occurrence of your search pattern. An easy fix that doesn't require an extension is to press Esc first, which closes the search box, and then you can press Enter.
jwr
Incidentally, I've been trying to use the keyboard to scroll webpages recently, and it's a disaster. Nobody does it, apparently.

PageUp/PageDown do not work correctly on sites that have a permanent topbar (some of the content is never shown). Cursor up/down often does something unexpected (for example in Mastodon, if you use PageDown several times and then cursor down, you will get yanked back).

I think it is a sad regression. Not everybody is able to use the mouse and its scrollwheel!

makeitdouble
Mapping mouse events to key shortcuts might be the only way forward that could realistically work. Something like moving the mouse where the cursor/selection is, and sending scrolling events from there.

The lenovo keyboard with its trackpoint and mouse buttons is a kind of solution to this, but IME scrolling is still a PITA as it needs two inputs (switching to scroll mode while moving the trackpoint)

maest
Before adding the AI summary, google required:

    Tab+tab+enter
to highlight the first link result.

Now, with the summary, it's:

    Tab+tab+enter+tab+tab
Just wild lol
blacklight
Or just use the Surfingkeys extension - it has a bit of a steep learning curve to customize it, but it's worth every piece of effort.
ashwinsundar
I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/

Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

iLemming
I no longer use vimium, I use vimium-c, but these should work in both, add these to your custom mappings - you'd thank me later:

    map gf LinkHints.activateOpenInNewTab count=999999
    map go LinkHints.click direct="focused" mode="newtab-active"
    map gb LinkHints.click direct="focused" mode="newtab"

    map gm toggleMuteTab
I would typically do something like this - I'd press "/", search for an occurence, it navigates to one, if it's a link, pressing "go" - opens it in a new tab, "gb" - opens it without switching to it. I promise you, you'd love this.

Share your interesting options.

HankStallone
I use Qutebrowser, a keyboard-driven browser built on the Chromium engine. The controls are mostly vi-like (search with /), but easy to configure.
OGEnthusiast
FWIW, using Chromium on Linux, I was able to use Ctrl+F + Escape + Enter to find and click on all of them except for the "span with an onclick handler".
butz
With more websites shrinking their scrollbars or removing them outright, keyboard navigation seems to be the last resort.
lolive
For people using keyboard a lot, and who HATE to have focus going out of the HTML rendering panel, you can simply Ctrl-F Esc and you are back on focus. Best hint I read on the Internet since 1967 !
WhyNotHugo
> Just press ' and start typing.

This doesn't seem to work with English International keyboard.

arp242
If you have dead keys you need two quotes, like everywhere else.
garbagepatch
Pressing ' twice places one ' in the search box and then you have to delete it. You can press ' <space> to get the search box empty.
high_priest
Recently, I had written a post mentioning basics of my fully keyboard oriented workflow on Windows.

https://amun.pl/blog/post/working-on-windows-with-keyboard-o... (Sorry for missing images, I accidentally deleted them when messing with containers backups)

I mention the BrowseCut chromium plugin over there, which made navigating all kinds of pages, a total breeze.

Expecting questions if the BrowseCut extension works with Duolingo. It does not. Although, I have not had issues on any other pages.

lelanthran
Thos small snippet is a great thing to add to your site if you have all your links as buttons.
apparent
Pressing down-arrow on WSJ articles unmutes the auto-playing video. This may have happened by mistake, but surely they've kept it this way on purpose. I hate it.
Leo-thorne
I’ve always found Firefox’s / quick find feature incredibly useful. But having to click on a link after selecting it always felt awkward and interrupted my flow. This little tweak is brilliant because it removes that extra step with just a few lines of code. If browsers allowed links to activate automatically once selected, navigating with a keyboard would feel so much smoother. I sincerely hope that becomes a standard feature one day.
myfonj
Just chiming in with recommendation of yet another hints extension, this one is called »Yet Another Hints Extension (YAHE)« and is really minimal and nice. Signed, happy long-time user.

(YAHE) https://gitlab.com/jpallari/yahe

(BTW, does anyone here remember extension called »Hit-A-Hint«?)

mudkipdev
The battery link is more interesting
b0dhimind
yeah seriously wth, I just did powercfg /requests and it says an audio stream is in use... so many web apps open I wonder how much power its been eating.