Simple browser extension that adds keyboard shortcuts to Google search™. Google search™ used to provide experimental keyboard navigation, but it was often broken, and seems to have been removed as of 2017-07-31. In addition, I wanted to add new keyboard shortcuts and the existing ones to be more vim like (j/k for navigation).
The extension is not available in the Chrome Web Store (see explanation below), so you will need to install it manually.
- Download the latest release from https://github.com/infokiller/web-search-navigator/releases
- Extract the zip file to any directory you'd like, though you need to make sure the directory is not deleted while you want to use the extension
- Go to extensions page in Chrome (URL:
chrome://extensions
) - Enable developer mode if needed
- Disable other existing instances of Google Search Navigator (from the store or from loading another unpacked version)
- Click "Load Unpacked" and select the directory you extracted the release zip into
The extension used to be available in the Chrome Web Store but was removed because of copyright issues (see issue #60 for background). As of 2018-10-01, it is pending a legal review from Google. Assuming it passes the review, it should be back in the store in this URL.
Install from the Add-ons for Firefox.
The extension is not in the store and needs to be installed manually because of the same issue mentioned in the Chrome instructions. Once it will be added to the store, you will be able to install it from here.
Note: All shortcuts can be customized to your liking via options.
↓
/j
: Select next search result↑
/k
: Select previous previous result/
/Escape
: Focus on input search boxEnter
/Space
: Navigate to selected resultCtrl+Enter
/⌘+Enter
/Ctrl+Space
: Open selected result in background tabCtrl+Shift+Enter
/⌘+Shift+Enter
/Ctrl+Shift+Space
: Open selected result in new window/tab←
/h
: Navigate to previous search result page→
/l
: Navigate to next search result pagea
/s
: Navigate to All tab (= default search tab)i
: Navigate to images tabv
: Navigate to videos tabm
: Navigate to maps tabn
: Navigate to news tabalt+s
: Navigate to shopping tabb
: Navigate to books tabalt+l
: Navigate to flights tabf
: Navigate to financial tabCtrl+Shift+h
: Filter results by past hourCtrl+Shift+d
: Filter results by past 24 hours (day)Ctrl+Shift+w
: Filter results by past weekCtrl+Shift+m
: Filter results by past monthCtrl+Shift+y
: Filter results by past yearCtrl+Shift+a
: Turn off filter (show all results)Ctrl+Shift+s
: Toggle sort by date/relevance (only when filtering)
We use yarn package manager for dependency management and gulp for build. Installing and building (deploying the web extension files) is as easy as:
yarn install && yarn build
The extension will be deployed directly to the src
directory. You can load this directory as an unpacked extensions to
your browser.
It would be better to deploy for example to build/deploy
and add gulp-watch
to update the deployed files
automatically. However when done so the browser's (Chrome) auto-reload extension gets broken and one has to reload the
extension manually on every change. Hence the src
directory is used for the convenience.
To deploy the production sources use:
yarn build --production
The automated build scripts are currently not implemented so manual process is required afterward.
- Add option for navigating "Top stories"
- Remove Keymaster dependency and add functions for validation user provided Keybindings
This project is not affiliated with Google LLC.
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