Navigating a page in Firefox using the keyboard

Did you know you can search link text in Firefox - which is an easy way to navigate a page from the keyboard?

Just type the apostrophe key:

'

(between the semicolon ;   and the Return key)

and type a few letters of a link. Once Firefox highlights the link you want, press return to open that link.

 

I like to do everything from the keyboard, as much as possible. (The mouse - or in my case, the trackball - is fine, and great - it's a wonderful invention. But it's so much faster to use the keyboard, in so many cases.)

I constantly find myself on Wikipedia pages or Rotten Tomatoes, wanting to jump straight to a particular subtopic - for example, looking at a TV show or movie in Wikipedia, I usually want to jump to the Reception heading.

With this trick, I can just type

'

rec

return

to jump straight to the section I want to read.

This is my new favorite thing.

 

I found out about it at the California Department of Consumer Affairs, thanks to their handy list of Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox.