Found: Firefox Caret Browsing

Firefox Caret Browsing

Being a big fan of Firefox, I use it around 80%* of my web time. And being a photoshop fan, I belong to the type of people that loves to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse. In Firefox, I recently found a way to:

• Browse, a webpage full of text,
• Select a text link with ease,
• Select text,
• and copy the selected text from a webpage into the clipboard

And all that without using the mouse.

It can be done by turning on the Caret Browsing that enables the Caret navigation which is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as “text cursor”, “text insertion cursor”, or “text selection cursor”) is used to navigate within a text document (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_navigation).

F7 for Firefox Claret Browsing**

As stated in the screenshot above, F7 needs to be typed to turn on and off this browsing. And after it is turned on, I just type and hold the SHIFT key with the arrow keys to select a portion of text.

(* estimated figure)

(** Click on image to see bigger size)

Another discovery -.-