Author: Martin

Load Links with the Keyboard in Firefox

About a month ago I reviewed a Firefox add-on which added numbers to Google’s search results so that the links could be loaded by simply pressing the corresponding number. That add-on was only working with the first ten results in Google, other search engines or websites were not supported by it.

HaH which is an acronym for Hit A Hint is a Firefox add-on that takes that feature to the next level. It adds an identifier to any link on the page and the user has only to type that identifier and hit the enter button to load the link. But first things first. HaH is not compatible to Firefox 3 currently but I was able to make it compatible by downloading the install file locally and editing the install.rdf file that was contained in the archive to change the parameter em:maxVersion to 3.0 so that it could be installed in Firefox 3. The file can be edited with any text editor.

I was at first a bit puzzled and did not knew how to enable the feature. A quick look on the homepage of the add-on revealed that the feature could be enabled by pressing “h”. This automatically adds numbers to all links on the website which can then by typed in and loaded with enter in the same tab.

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The numbers can be changed to other chars if that is preferred. Pressing “h” again turns the mode off again. The link can also be opened in a new tab by pressing SHIFT or new window by pressing CTRL in combination with the enter key.