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Rockstarsid · 1 year ago

I am in caret browsing mode :D Great post!

Nihar · 1 year ago

I am surprised to know about this. Thanks for this tip.

I will sometime in future do caret browsing when my mouse goes crazy and doesn't work

Anonymous · 1 year ago

I guess "caret browsing" is nice if you are disabled or have "mouse-issues". What I would like, is some way of turning off the "feature" ("mis-feature" IMHO) that you can at all use the tab-key to "navigate" (ie. links) in the page. I would LOVE to be able to use the tab-key in a "sensible" manner (again, IMHO) - Which is to say for switching between text-fields, most notably to get the cursor back in the address-bar and/or the search-box (I guess it would also be ok if you could tab-key to text-fields in input-form pages) - However, since the tab-key not only wants to tab through ALL links on a page, but somehow doesn't even behave "predictably" after you have pressed [ENTER] in the address-bar (one should think that either a single [TAB] or [ALT-TAB] would bring the cursor back to the address-bar (or where ever it was before you pressed [ENTER]), but alas, it doesn't (or at least I never seem to get this result).

Wouldn't it be quite reasonable to relegate the [TAB]-based link-browsing to the list of optional accesibility-features, and have the normal (or optional) behaviour of the [TAB] key restricted to the most commonly used "locations" (ie. the aforementioned address- and search-bars and/or whatever other input-bars/boxes/fields in the interface, possibly with an option to include form-fields).

Am I completely wrong in assuming that 99% of (non-disabled) users are rarely, if ever, using the [TAB] key to go through the (typically lots of) links in a page, in order to get to the right one? It's not like it will make browsing faster than using the mouse (quite the opposite I should think), which is the usual argument for having any kind of "keyboard-shortcut"?!?

Well, just my 2 cents anyway.

P.S. If anyone knows of a way to do this, or something to the same effect (preventing the [TAB] key from moving the caret inside a page), such as some obscure about:config setting, an extension or..? Then please post the solution here!

daiLyFeed · 1 year ago

great tips and information.. thanks for posting this one!

Minnesota Attorney · 1 year ago

Very interesting. I had never heard of this. I wonder what types/groups of people commonly use this feature. For those who want to skim websites by sliding the page with a mouse, it probably isn't very useful.

Ferry · 1 year ago

Thank you, for this very useful article, it's very interesting. As for me, FireFox - the best browser...

wikifan · 1 year ago

Wow. Rare stuff. I didn't know about this. Thanks a bunch for sharing it.

teraOm · 1 year ago

This mode works well if you want to copy text, else it is really annoying,
any idea of how to turn this on for firefox on mac?

SoLinkable · 1 year ago

I've never actually tried caret browsing, though I keep meaning to try it.

Hicham Maged · 1 year ago

It's the first time for me to hear about it because it's listed under 'Accessibility' in Firefox. This is nice and I wonder if this option is availabe in Opera Browser?

Eugene · 1 year ago

I had never heard of this - will try right now.

TechNald · 1 year ago

wow this is cool! thanks for sharing!

ArpitNext · 1 year ago

surprised! I never know about this...

Thanks for sharing .. i must try this!

Live Wire · 1 year ago

will this same feature be available for the google chrome browser?
-jack

Mr Li · 1 year ago

Wow. This is unheard of stuff. Never knew it was possible. Useful.

Informixx · 1 year ago

Great tips and information! Thanks for this!

Paul Thompson · 9 months ago

This Caret Browsing suck..
When I click in free space in web page to make window of IE active. It always move me somewhere to the end of the page..