Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Add keyboard shortcuts to your browser

Keyboard shortcuts let you do more in less time. Some browsers (example : Firefox) let you add shortcut commands to your bookmarks so that you can open the bookmark quickly or perform actions like searching that site. I wrote about a great way to add shortcuts to all your browsers using Shortwave. This week I found another great app that basically works like Shortwave but has more power and is extensible.

Quix looks and works like Shortwave. You have to add a bookmarklet to your browser and click on it to get a dialog box to enter the shortcut command. You can obviously customize the commands to your liking the same way you do for Shortwave. You can launch a site with a shortcut command or search it directly by entering the search time after the command. And what's great about these bookmarklets is that they work on all browsers and your commands are in a central place which always stays current.

Try Shortwave or Quix and see how it improves your browsing experience.

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