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control mouse with keyboard and web browsing

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I have lost my mouse functionality, and I have to work without it on my Ubuntu PC for a couple of days. I am OK with doing my stuffs without it on my computer. But I'm having no good time with web browsing at all. If I want to select a link I have to press tab several times, If I control mouse with Numpad then mouse moves really really slow (and it is useless). So, at the moment I do my stuffs on my PC and do web browsings with my laptop. Is there any way to solve this? I am using Ubuntu 12.10

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answered 1 Year ago rialhirt · Accepted Answer

After all I found an add-on for firefox named VimFx and one for chrome named Vimium. You can do a lot without mouse, easily. Here are its shortcuts, that if you are a vim user, then most of them you already know!

Dealing with URLs

o       Focus the Address Bar

O       Focus the Search Bar

p       Navigate to the address in the clipboard

P       Open new tab and navigate to the address in the clipboard

yf      Copy link url to the clipboard

vf      Focus element

yy      Copy current page link to the clipboard

r       Reload current page

R       Reload current page and all the assets (js, css, etc.)

ar      Reload pages in all tabs

aR      Reload pages in all tabs including assets (js, css, img)

s       Stop loading current page

as      Stop loading pages in all tabs

Navigating the Page

gg      Scroll to the Top of the page

G       Scroll to the Bottom of the page

j,c-e   Scroll Down

k,c-y   Scroll Up

h       Scroll Left

l       Scroll Right

d       Scroll half a Page Down

u       Scroll half a Page Up

c-f     Scroll full Page Down

c-b     Scroll full Page Up

Working with Tabs

t       Open New Blank tab

J,gT    Go to the Previous tab

K,gt    Go to the Next tab

c-J     Move current tab to the Left

c-K     Move current tab to the Right

gh      Navigate to the Home Page

gH,g^   Go to the First tab

gL,g$   Go to the Last tab

x       Close current tab

X       Restore last closed tab

Browsing

f       Follow a link on the current page

F       Follow a link on the current page in a new tab

af      Follow multiple links on the current page

[       Follow the Previous page link on the current page

]       Follow the Next page link on the current page

gu      Go up one level in the URL hierarchy

gU      Go up to root of the URL hierarchy

H       Go Back in history

L       Go Forward in history

Misc

/       Enter Find mode

a/      Enter Find mode to highlight all matches

n       Go to the next Find match

N       Go to the previous Find match

i       Enter insert mode: Ignore all commands

?       Show this dialog

:       Open Developer Toolbar

Esc     Enter normal mode (remove hint markers, exit insert mode) or blur/close active element