Google Search Enhanced Keyboard Navigation

By Patrick C. McGinty — Last update Dec 19, 2009 — Installed 693 times. Daily Installs: 2, 3, 4, 2, 0, 0, 3, 4, 0, 0, 3, 0, 3, 10, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0
Script Summary:
Enables Google's experimental keyboard shortcut navigation in search results, plus additional feature for jumping to Next/Previous result pages.
Version: 1.3a

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Quick Usage Instructions

This script provides global access to Google's experimental keyboard shortcut search feature on all search results. The original feature page is located at: http://www.google.com/experimental/

In addition to the standard Google keyboard shortcuts (J,K,O,ENTER,/), this script also adds the 'H' and 'L' keys (lower-case) to quickly jump to the Previous and Next search results page.


Notes For Current Users of Google Labs Experimental Search

This script does not require you to join Google's "Experimental" search feature to work properly. If this feature was previously activated in your user account, then you should click the "Leave" option after installing the script. The option is located at: http://www.google.com/experimental/


ChangeLog

  • v1.3a [12/18/09]
    • Script was updated to support Google's changes to search result page. The changes broke the Next/Prev page navigation.
  • v1.3 [9/08/09]
    • Script was updated to support Google's changes to search result page. The changes broke the Next/Prev page navigation.
  • v1.2b [7/25/09]
    • Fixed case where some browsers did not recognize when the cursor was inside of text areas.
  • v1.2a [3/5/09]
    • Updated sidebar documentation text.
  • v1.2 [3/2/09]
    • Amend default Google documentation to include H/L keys.
  • v1.1 [2/27/09]
    • Enable CTRL,ALT,META keys combo detection
    • Disable keyboard navigation when typing inside of search box
  • v1.0 [2/26/09]
    • Initial release
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