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Show HN: We built a Chrome extension to use J/K to navigate popular sites

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Sounds like Vimium, but with interactions for popular sites built in.

It's faster and easier to use than Vimium for common use cases as there is no need to enter a two digit link code to open a link.

You could also use the Vimium extension that already exists: http://vimium.github.com/

Great work! I made a similar extension a few months ago but only for Craigslist (https://github.com/yonran/craigslist-shortcuts), but it’s great that your one works on many different websites. I still prefer simply focusing the link instead of also adding a background-color, though.

I think the focus is not enough, though I have to say it also took me some time to get used to the pink. We could actually make that into a pretty easy setting... Maybe I'll do it sometime when the pink pisses me off too much.

Looks great!

An alternative interface for navigating links with your keyboard in Chrome is DeadMouse: http://chetan51.github.com/deadmouse/

With it, you can simply start typing out the text of any link you see on the page to go to it.

Just tried it out. This extension "highlights" the links in the most annoying way possible I've seen since the introduction of the blink tag :). Looks like it also could conflict with many sites if they use shortcuts. Are you using this extension on a regular basis?

That's pretty cool. How have you worked around issues such as breaking keyboard shortcuts for Gmail?

Why do you like this approach better than what vimium does? that was already to complicated for me.

Also: I love the way you demo the functionality on the site!

I'm using gleebox[1]. It has "ESP visions" - you define selector for elements on certain website whic are tab-able. You can also hit 'g' and write text of link/alt of image and that element would be highlighted. [1] http://thegleebox.com/

Indispensable comment about Opera having fully customizable page and browser keyboard navigation that works with every site built in since prehistorical ages (in Chrome timeline 8-). http://imgur.com/I2Vpk

When I try to make an entry for 'hackerne.ws' (using same selector as news.ycombinator) it saves but then resets the regex after I visit the site and it doesn't work. Any ideas? Otherwise, I'm a fan - will keep using.

Help me understand this ⌘ + return. This "⌘".....don't know it? explain more...cant be able to open a new in a new tab using that short cut

It's the command key on the Mac and the control key on Windows. What OS are you using?

Thanks so much. It has worked. I am using windows 7. May be developers of this application should consider simply including the full words.

I especially like using this on FB. It allows me to efficiently go through every post without missing any. Much better than scrolling!

This worked for me in the main page of hacker news, but I could not get it to work for moving between comments.

All good, except I hate the pink. You should make the CSS customizable in Options.

Google results get a new dimension. Same for Reddit.

You should check out http://redditenhancementsuite.com/. I wish there was something similar Hacker News, or there is?

Err, is there any way to get to the comments in HN?

Currently you have to hit tab three times to highlight the comments link, then press return. Not ideal, but should still be faster than having to use the mouse.

It'd be great to just steal opera's shift arrows to move to the next link in that direction on screen. (or hjkl)

I use this to browse HN, it's great.

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