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Hometype provides keyboard manipulation for Hackers.

This is an extension to operate Google Chrome
without touching a mouse.

Chrome Store

Latest Update on Github Apr 22, 2014 : c53b2eb506b8583b252a1a5bddf5fda7128fbdcd Hometype Issues

You can do following with only the keyboard using this extension.

Moving Form Searching Selecting
Scroll Focusing Bookmarks Select texts in the page
Follow the link Select the select box Histories Select the code snippet
Back and forward in history   Closed tabs  
screen

Mode

Hometype has like vim's modes. All modes can be switched with keyboard manipulation.

Key bindings

Default key bindings in the normal mode is follow:

Key bind Operation
j or C-e Scroll down
k or C-y Scroll up
C-d Page half down
C-u Page half up
C-f Page down
C-b Page up
gg Scroll to the top of the page
G Scroll to the bottom of the page
H Back to the history
L Forward to the history
x Close the current tab
C-p Move to the previous tab
C-n Move to the next tab
Key bind Operation
I Focus to an element appears first on the display
A Focus to an element appears last on the display
u Reopen nearest closed tab
U Search recently closed tab
C-h Search histories in the current tab
b Search bookmarks and open it in the current tab
B Search bookmarks and open it in a new tab
f Follow a link in the current tab
F Follow a link in a new tab
v Enter the visual mode to select a text
i or a Enter the insert mode
: Enter the command mode