Firefox/Chrome: If you love using your keyboard and shun your mouse, you'll definitely want to try gleeBox, an awesome add-on that lets you effortlessly browse the web without your mouse. Check out the video inside to see it in action.
Browsing the web without a mouse isn't easy. Without any add-ons at all you're stuck furiously punching the tab key to move through all the available links on the page. Other add-ons help you to navigate without your mouse but often not very intuitively.
Gleebox offers a highly customizable and intuitive way to navigate web pages via keyboard. At its most basic gleeBox allows you to hit the G key, and every link on the page is highlighted and you can navigate to it by typing part or all of the link name into gleeBox. Check out the videos below to see it in action.
After you've watched the intro video above to get a feel for how gleeBox works, this video showcases the newest features and customizations:
GleeBox is so neat we of course had to try it out immediately on Lifehacker.com and then make a custom script to browse Lifehacker with ease. The following screenshot shows the options menu of gleeBox with the entry you'll want to make to enable "ESP mode" on Lifehacker. ESP mode allows you to narrow the range of links on a page so that only the important links are selected.
Definitely check out the manual for more gleeBox tips and tricks, and before you slog through creating a new ESP mode entry for a favorite web site make sure to check out the gleeBox TipJar where users submit new commands and ESP modes they've created.
Definitely check out the manual for more gleeBox tips and tricks, and before you slog through creating a new ESP mode entry for a favorite web site make sure to check out the gleeBox TipJar where users submit new commands and ESP modes they've created.
GleeBox is available as an extension for Firefox and Google Chrome.
