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Been using uzbl on Arch for a few months now. Great little browser! The biggest selling point for me was the keyboard-centric control. I use a keyboard-centric

Been using uzbl on Arch for a few months now. Great little browser! The biggest selling point for me was the keyboard-centric control. I use a keyboard-centric window manager and I use vim for code editing, so everything I do on my Linux install is with the keyboard and uzbl makes web browsing keyboard based too.

StavrosK 14y ago
I have to say, of all the browsers I tried, Opera's keyboard control was the best. I tried Uzbl for a bit, but I can't say it was very easy to navigate links with its keyboard controls.
- brabram 14y ago
  Maybe you should give a try at pentadactyl (vimish behavior of firefox) http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
- iamapipebomb 14y ago
  What does opera use for link navigation? I just see link step/cycling in the opera documentation [1]. Is there a better paradigm than link hitting [2]? Opera always seems to have impressive hidden tricks. [1] http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAWfqwzxck#t=9m15s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAWfqwzxck#t=9m15s
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    Hum, I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl, but I might say I prefer Opera's mode: Pressing shift and the arrow keys allows you to navigate links visually, i.e. as they appear on the page. Since this scrolls the page too (to the next link), this is faster when you have to scroll around to find the links. It might not be faster than hitting one key per link, but it's more intuitive than the link-cycling all the other browsers do. Give it a shot, you might like it.
    - dkersten 14y ago
      I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl Oh.. I figured that link hinting is the way of navigating links in uzbl, so if you did not discover that (the cheat sheet lists it!) then you really missed out. As for page scrolling, hjkl does that just fine IMHO (actually, I use AltGr+u/j/k/l because hjkl is not convenient on my keyboard layout).
      - StavrosK 14y ago
        I'll give it another shot, I basically just installed it and played around a bit with it, I didn't give it an extensive look...
  - tveita 14y ago
    One technique I use is to search to get focus on the link, and press enter. So for instance, to follow your first link I'd type ".tut[enter]", or for your second, ".tube[enter]" This works in Firefox too, if you dismiss the search box first. Not really better than link hinting, but good enough that I haven't felt the need to find an extension that does it.

StavrosK 14y ago

I have to say, of all the browsers I tried, Opera's keyboard control was the best. I tried Uzbl for a bit, but I can't say it was very easy to navigate links with its keyboard controls.

brabram 14y ago
Maybe you should give a try at pentadactyl (vimish behavior of firefox) http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
iamapipebomb 14y ago
What does opera use for link navigation? I just see link step/cycling in the opera documentation [1]. Is there a better paradigm than link hitting [2]? Opera always seems to have impressive hidden tricks. [1] http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAWfqwzxck#t=9m15s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAWfqwzxck#t=9m15s
- StavrosK 14y ago
  Hum, I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl, but I might say I prefer Opera's mode: Pressing shift and the arrow keys allows you to navigate links visually, i.e. as they appear on the page. Since this scrolls the page too (to the next link), this is faster when you have to scroll around to find the links. It might not be faster than hitting one key per link, but it's more intuitive than the link-cycling all the other browsers do. Give it a shot, you might like it.
  - dkersten 14y ago
    I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl Oh.. I figured that link hinting is the way of navigating links in uzbl, so if you did not discover that (the cheat sheet lists it!) then you really missed out. As for page scrolling, hjkl does that just fine IMHO (actually, I use AltGr+u/j/k/l because hjkl is not convenient on my keyboard layout).
    - StavrosK 14y ago
      I'll give it another shot, I basically just installed it and played around a bit with it, I didn't give it an extensive look...
- tveita 14y ago
  One technique I use is to search to get focus on the link, and press enter. So for instance, to follow your first link I'd type ".tut[enter]", or for your second, ".tube[enter]" This works in Firefox too, if you dismiss the search box first. Not really better than link hinting, but good enough that I haven't felt the need to find an extension that does it.