Effortlessly Browse the Internet on your Web Browser without

Effortlessly Browse the Internet on your Web Browser without a Mouse


Mouseless Browsing (MLB) is a Firefox-Extension (Add-On) which

enables you to browse the internet with the keyboard. The basic

principle is to add small boxes with unique ids behind every

link and/or form element. You just have to type in the id and

press enter (there is also an automatic mode available) to

trigger the corresponding action i.e. following a link,

pressing a button or selecting a textfield.

Mouseless Browsing Features:

# Supports numeric as well as character ids; character set

configurable
# Option to show ids before entire page is loaded
# Configurable modifiers to open link in new

tab/window/Cooliris Previews
# Configuration option to use numpad exclusively for

Mouseless Browsing
# Configuration options to define for which elements ids

should be shown (form element, links, pure image links, frames)
# Smart positioning of ids: Ids for image links, textfields,

selectboxes are placed in the right upper corner to minimize

the impact on the page layout.
# Possibility to configure URL specific behavior

(black/whitelist)
# Configurable shortcuts for all Mouseless Browsing actions

After installing the Mouseless Browsing plugin for Firefox,

every link or form element will have a unique number attached

to it. Let’s take the example image below. Mark wants to click

on the Ads by Google link which has a number 13 attached to it.

Instead of hitting the tab multiple times to get there, you can

just press and hold the CTRL key followed by number 1 and 3.

The Firefox browser will immediately and automatically access

or click the link that says “Ads by Google” for you… If you

want to open the link on a new tab, use the Alt key instead of

Ctrl. To enable/disable the numbers, just press the “.” or

“Del” key at the numeric keypad. If the keys doesn’t suit you it can be changed in the configuration window.
Link with numbers

Mouseless Browsing plugin is highly configurable to suit your

personal needs and preferences. Nearly everything on the plugin

can be customize including how the numbers, shortcut keys, URL

rules to disable MLB for certain webpages, and etc.

This excellent Firefox plugin is only 71.5KB in size and it

doesn’t increase the memory or CPU usage at all. All I can say

about this technique is brilliant and this is the first time

that I am seeing something like this. I bet soon programmers

would create something similar for other browsers such as

Opera, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Whether I have a

mouse or not, I will definitely use this Firefox plugin so I

can keep both of my hands on the keyboard and don’t need to

reach for my mouse so often.

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