Comments on: How to be more keyboardy https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Anonymous https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9476 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:51:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9476 I tried Ctrl-[plus] or Ctrl-[minux], and it only scrolls the page up and down for me (I used Firefox on a Windows computer). (But the other ones work, and are really useful)

]]> By: Ben Harder https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9475 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:00:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9475 Good to know about F11 and Ctrl-L. I’ve always been a big fan and user of keyboard macros, but I clearly have a few more handy ones to learn…

]]> By: nighthawk808@hotmail.com https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9474 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:05:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9474 Another prob with Opera is that when I open it it restores the pages from my last session. That’s not always a good thing when I move from my private place to surf to public places to surf.Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | June 9, 2008 7:00 PMMike, that’s an option, not a mandate. You can turn that off in the preferences with a simple click of the mouse.

]]> By: Dave https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9473 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:18:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9473 > Ctrl-f is fine for opening the search window, but why in the > heck isn’t there a shortcut for CLOSING it!?!?!? (pet peeve)BobN, you can close the search window by hitting Esc, but as someone already said, / is good to know also.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9472 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:36:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9472 Epistatis: I don’t use adblock because I think it is too much trouble, and I want to see the ads on my own blog (basic blogging ethics). Otherwise, I actually visit very few commercial sites. So, since the Esc key is already installed, this is good.

]]> By: iceman https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9471 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:24:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9471 firefox rules my roost because of the add ons likeadblock plusfilterset g updater (a list for adblock plus)noscript (stop javascript mischief and allow it selectivelyand customize google, i love the options of remove ads, switch to https or secure, stream search results and rewrite image link to point directly to imageother add ons i loverepaginationremove it permanentlybugmenotgoogle text to phoneavailable herehttp://www.google.com/tools/firefox/sendtophone/all addons are herehttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

]]> By: otmar https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9470 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:27:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9470 Closing the current tab within firefox is done by CTRL-F4.

]]> By: Epistaxis https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9469 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:09:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9469

To Stop the stupid flashing ad (if the stupid flashing ad is a moving GIF file): Hit the Escape Key!

I’m sorry, the answer we were looking for was “install Adblock Plus”.

]]> By: I hope my boss isn't searching by name but just in case https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9468 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:20:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9468 > Google shellI love it. And it’s going to make using Google at work far more, er, subtle.Now if someone would implement the whole WordStar cursor diamond, in Firefox I could bring out my old IBM-AT keyboard, the one with the Ctrl key where God intended it to be, just left of the A key, and forget the damned mouse almost all the time.

]]> By: SuzyQueue https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9467 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:46:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/09/how-to-be-more-keyboardy/#comment-9467 Ctrl-P is from WordStar, a word processing program from the late 70’s-early 80’s. The other programs for word processing that were available at the time were TeX and LaTex which were programmed in a similar manner to HTML.

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