I am curious, do very many people here browse the web using only their keyboard?<p>I like the idea, but the keyboard-only navigation is going to be bottlenecked by the actual web page.
I prefer vimperator. It's a firefox extension that modifies a lot of things (looks, key bindings, etc) to make it behave like vim: <a href="http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator" rel="nofollow">http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator</a><p>Together with Style Tree Tabs it looks pretty cool and minimalistic: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadsunrise/3501399270/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadsunrise/3501399270/</a>
Don't forget Conkeror, something like an "Emacs-erator" but without the whole Firefox, using xulrunner only: <a href="http://conkeror.org" rel="nofollow">http://conkeror.org</a><p>Its keybindings resemble the ones of vimperator in some respects ("f" = follow), but reminds you more of emacs regarding things like (mini-) buffers, M-x whatever, ...<p>// Edit:
Just stumbled upon another one: <a href="http://redmine.philpep.org/projects/show/cream" rel="nofollow">http://redmine.philpep.org/projects/show/cream</a> using C, GTK+, WebKit, vimperator-like interface
I use keyboard navigation for a longer time now because i cant stand browsing by touchpad. The keyboard-navigation-methods that firefox and ie use are rather outdated, there are much cooler and better methods today.<p>So i have tested many methods, and here are my favourites:<p>1. Opera! The Browser has something called spatial navigation. It somehow works like the cursor key navigation in "Links" but much better and gives you a feeling of rather direct control. Very cool...<p>2. Firefox + "mouseless browsing"-Plugin. Every link on the webpage gets a number, a little bit like footnotes, and you surf via entering numbers. Sounds complicated but it is rather intuitive and very fast. Well, the webpages look a little bit uglier than before. Try it out, it should work with every Firefox-Version.<p>Both of these methods force you to surf a little bit more concentrated and less relaxing, tv-like. But for just getting work done the methods are just great. They work with nearly every webpage, even those you wouldnt expect. The only times i use the touchpad is for flash-applications (like the video-windows on youtube). I dont even miss a mouse.<p>I think Vimperator could be interesting too, but it somehow always looks too complicated for me.
<a href="http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/" rel="nofollow">http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/</a><p>Opera has an entire tutorial on ratless browsing.
I only browse using the keyboard with firefox+mouseless browsing. It's got to a point where its faster than the mouse in 80% of the situations, and acceptable in other 15% of the situations. In 5% of the situations I still have to grab the mouse, which is annoying.<p>I wonder if any of those other browsers would fix it for me. But conkeror's website, which seems to be my favorite since I'm an emacs user, looks offline right now.
I'm using Vimperator, but got a problem: how to escape from embedded Flash once it gets keyboard focus? Because once the focus is in some embedded objects, I can no longer control Vimperator unless click the mouse to move the focus back to the page. Very annoying ...