Re: [OT] A new web browser‽

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I installed the eww-lnum package right away, as that provides the main
>> functionality I liked from Conkeror: hit a key, and pick a link to do
>> something with. Rather strangely, the KeySnail plugin for Firefox seems
>> to do everything *but* this, which I thought was weird since, if you're
>> going to control your browser through the keyboard, following links is
>> generally the main thing you want to do. I've only had it for a few
>> hours, though, so maybe I'm missing something.
>
> IIUC, Firefox actually has this behavior out of the box: press ' (single
> quote) and start typing the link text.  I was surprised and pleased to
> learn about that when I first found it.  That may be why it isn't
> included in KeySnail.

Clearly I've been away from the "normal browser world" for too long -- I
had no idea Firefox did this...