Navigating Google search results using keyboard shortcuts

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talsibony picture talsibony · Feb 15, 2015 · Viewed 35.4k times · Source

Some will think this is not related to programming but I think it is, because most of the time when I encounter programming issues I search on Google to find solutions or ways to do what I plan to do before I start writing it from scratch. Let's face it, we all copy pasters...

I don't like to remove my hands from the keyboard. Google had a feature after you submit a query and press Tab it will start navigating within the search results. Most likely because they had a tabindex attribute which was was removed.

Does anyone know why sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't? I'm starting to think I should create a Chrome app that will add the tab index to the results, but I don't want to do it before I am 100% sure this feature was removed.

Answer

infokiller picture infokiller · Aug 4, 2017

As of 2017-07-31, Google removed this feature entirely from search.

I created the open source Web Search Navigator extension to fix this and add extra features (like configurable keyboard shortcuts).

See installation instructions.

Hope you find it useful, but in any case - feedback is welcome!

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