Look ma, no mouse: Vimium
Repeatedly reaching for your mouse slows you down in the short term, and in the long term brings on health problems (RSI). To stay fast and healthy, keep your hands on your keyboard. To keep your hands there, this series, “Look ma, no mouse!” will guide you through easy to use tools to use your keyboard to control your computer instead of your mouse.
In this piece, we’ll discuss how to use your keyboard for one of the most mouse intensive activities: web browsing.
Why is web browsing so mouse intensive?
Links.
Links form the backbone of the web make it a connected, cohesive entity instead of a large pool of disconnected sites. there’s three ways to follow a link:
1 - Move your mouse over the link and click.
2 - Press tab over and over again until you see a dotted outline around the link and click. This works OK for google.com, but on github, there might be over 50 links for a given repo.
3 -Install the Vimium plugin for your favorite browser