GleeBox

http://thegleebox.com/

by jiri • 15 years ago

65 27 15 years ago

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jiri• 15 years ago

With Google Chrome, this is really powerful way how to browse the sites without any mouse/touchpad.

Great for coding and searching for docs but also for web surfing from the couch.

pieter• 15 years ago

Pretty cool. Add this as a shortcut (e.g. "hn") so you can type "?hn" to highlight all article links:

    .title a

Or add this as an ESP to link all articles and comment links by default:

    *.title a, a[href^=item]

karanbhangui• 15 years ago

really well done. i'll be using this from now on :)

jbm• 15 years ago

Love this. I always ache for keyboard shortcuts, don't know why I can't get them in more apps.

bittersweet• 15 years ago

As a Vim user I've been happy for quite some time now with Vimium. Being able to navigate with speed and select links and elements like forms had made browsing with the keyboard quite enjoyable for me.

Together with ShiftIt for window resizing I generally don't need to use the mouse when I'm coding at all.

rednum• 15 years ago

I'm a vimium user too, and I find gleeBox pretty interesting. The box concept is something I sometimes wish vimium had, the tab manager is also really convenient. However, default vimium's way of managing links seems better for me at the moment - for example when you have a site with lots of links with the same caption (like 'comments' on HN main page), gleeBox seems to be a bad solution (or I didn't figure out how to use it properly?).

skrebbel• 15 years ago

if you want to go to a link called "14 comments", start with typing "14".

wallrat• 15 years ago

I'm also pretty happy with Vimium as a former Vimperator user. The longer I use Chrome though, I find myself using the omnibox more and more for search etc. Especially when coding.

So lately I've been experimenting with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mkinfhanlabcenjnpb... to navigate links.

Works pretty good, although lot's of room for improvment.

_ankit_4• 15 years ago

Interesting concept to return matching links via the Omnibox.

kelsin• 15 years ago

Thanks for mentioning ShiftIt, I really like it so far! Maximizing windows with the keyboard was something I've always wanted!

acg• 15 years ago

Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051967

gourneau• 15 years ago

http://vimperator.org/ - vim for firefox

scrrr• 15 years ago

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhh... - Vim for Chrome

mcantor2• 15 years ago

I like how the juxtaposition of these links makes it look like the Firefox addon is called "Vimperator" while the Chrome addon is called "dbepggeogbaibhgnhh".

_ankit_4• 15 years ago

Check out the tips and tricks here: http://tipjar.thegleebox.com/.

Includes several useful ESPs and scrapers created by gleeBox users

rsoto• 15 years ago

I've been using keyboard navigation in Firefox for years and haven't looked back.

Head to options > advanced > general and check "search for text when I start typing". Now enjoy; look for a link you find interesting, type the name and when it starts to get highlighted, press enter (or ctrl+enter for a new tab). If it finds some other text that it's not a link, press F3 until you find it.

albedoa• 15 years ago

Ah, the notorious Issue 150 in Chrome. The Chromium team think its only use case is "to save a keystroke before finding" and that including an option to turn it on would be confusing to users:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150

It was a hot issue before they closed comments, namely due to Peter Kasting's hasty and misguided initial response.

I personally have yet to meet a Firefox user who is confused by the FAYT option, but that's just my experience.

mike-cardwell• 15 years ago

Woh. Why did I not know about this? It's brilliant. Why isn't this turned on by default?

thristian• 15 years ago

You don't even have to do that: with Firefox default settings, tapping "/" will start searching for text in the page, while tapping "'" (apostrophe) will start searching for text only in the context of links.

Editing a page is 'edit on the wikis I use most often, for example.

tbe• 15 years ago

The problem with / and ' is that they might start the search in a region of the page not currently visible. The hit-a-hint solutions limit the search to the visible portion of the page, which is much, much more productive. You typically have your eyes already on the link you want to follow, and any scrolling of the page as a result of finding matches will completely ruin the experience.

ez77• 15 years ago

When the docs talk of "jQuery selectors", does it mean that the visited page must use jQuery?

_ankit_4• 15 years ago

No, the visited page doesn't need to use jQuery. It actually means any CSS selector along with any additional selectors supported by jQuery.

See this: http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

I should probably rename it to CSS Selectors :)

Tcepsa• 15 years ago

As a big fan of Emacs, I also feel the need to mention Conkeror. Its core is based on Mozilla, and it has been my browser of choice since I discovered it a year or so ago. That having been said, I plan on checking this out; it looks nifty!

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