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+title: using the surfingkeys browser extension
+date: 2025-03-05
+tags:
+- browser-extension
+- surfingkeys
+- websites
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+[Surfingkeys](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys) is a cool browser extension.
+
+It does many, many things, but I mainly use it to click links and browser between webpages without using a mouse.
+
+With it installed, I can visit a webpage like:
+
+```text
+Celeste is a 2018 platform game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_game…
+
+…developed and published by Indie studio Maddy Makes Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddy_Makes_Games.
+
+The player controls Madeline, a young woman with anxiety and depression who endeavors to…
+
+…climb Celeste Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Celeste.
+
+During her climb, she encounters several characters, including a personification of her self-doubt named Badeline, who attempts to stop her from reaching the mountain's summit.
+```
+
+…press `f`, and all the clickable links are highlighted with letters (here "a", "s", and "d"). I can then press these letters to "click" the corresponding links.
+
+```text
+Celeste is a 2018 platform game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_game…
+                                                       a
+…developed and published by Indie studio Maddy Makes Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddy_Makes_Games.
+                                                                                    s
+The player controls Madeline, a young woman with anxiety and depression who endeavors to…
+
+…climb Celeste Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Celeste.
+                                                 d
+During her climb, she encounters several characters, including a personification of her self-doubt named Badeline, who attempts to stop her from reaching the mountain's summit.
+```
+
+It is super neat.
+
+It has a lot of other features that I don't use; lots of them are based on [Vim](https://www.vim.org/) keybindings (which I don't use). But, the things I do use are:
+
+- `f` to highlight all clickable elements and links, then the corresponding highlights to click them
+- `i` which is the same as `f` but only for `input`s like text forms
+- `gu` (go up one subdirectory) or `gs` (go to page source) or `g#` (go to page without hashlink) to modify the URL
+- `ya` to highlight all links on the page, and the shown keys copy the links
+- `zv` to select an element, to copy it with `CTRL+V` (this enters `Vim` cursor/select mode, which I've not used, so mainly just confuses me)
+
+Sometimes Surfingkeys interferes with the keybindings or JavaScript of a website, and makes it weird. These times, I turn it off with `Alt + s`.
+
+Overall, I find it pretty neat.