Web Search Navigator

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cohamjploocgoejdfanacfgkhjkhdkek

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Live on Store

Description from extension meta

Keyboard shortcuts for Google search, YouTube, Startpage, Brave Search, Google Scholar, Github, and Amazon.

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## Overview

Simple open source extension that adds keyboard shortcuts to Google search™ and optionally other websites.
Note that support for other websites must be enabled in the extension options.

See the latest changelog in https://github.com/infokiller/web-search-navigator/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

## Features

- Lightweight
- Supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge
- Extensive Google keyboard shortcuts including:
- Selecting results
- Opening results in the background or foreground
- Navigating to other sections (maps/news/videos/etc)
- Navigating to the next/previous result page
- Changing time restrictions
- Support for navigating cards such as Top Stories, Twitter, and videos
- All keyboard shortcuts can be changed
- Settings are synched between devices with the same browser profile
- Supports both key combos and key sequences
- Custom CSS rules to control the look of highlighted results
- Experimental and optional support for YouTube, Startpage, Brave Search, Google Scholar, Github, Gitlab, and Amazon (needs to be enabled in the options). Note that the extension does not have permissions for these optional websites unless you explicitly enable them.

## Keybindings

- `↓`/`j`: Select next search result
- `↑`/`k`: Select previous previous result
- `/`/`Escape`: Focus on input search box
- `Enter`/`Space`: Navigate to selected result
- `Ctrl+Enter`/`⌘+Enter`/`Ctrl+Space`: Open selected result in background tab
- `Ctrl+Shift+Enter`/`⌘+Shift+Enter`/`Ctrl+Shift+Space`: Open selected result in
new window/tab
- `←`/`h`: Navigate to previous search result page
- `→`/`l`: Navigate to next search result page
- `a`/`s`: Navigate to All tab (= default search tab)
- `i`: Navigate to images tab
- `v`: Navigate to videos tab
- `m`: Navigate to maps tab
- `n`: Navigate to news tab
- `alt+s`: Navigate to shopping tab
- `b`: Navigate to books tab
- `alt+l`: Navigate to flights tab
- `f`: Navigate to financial tab
- `z h`: Filter results by past hour
- `z d`: Filter results by past 24 hours (day)
- `z w`: Filter results by past week
- `z m`: Filter results by past month
- `z y`: Filter results by past year
- `z z`: Turn off filter (show all results)
- `z t`: Toggle sort by date/relevance (only when filtering)

Latest reviews

Kimheng 2025-10-05: Plz update to support the ai mode update. to make the shortcut not overlapping with the All search.
niktor76 2025-09-15: i hate google for blocking all the nice extensions
Technik AG Taunusschule BC 2025-03-17: Please update the Plugin, so that it´s available again🙏
anshul sahni 2025-03-05: This is one of the best extensions, absolutely necessary for productivity, either google search should implement this functionality by themselves or they should reinstate it
Garfunkel leknufrag 2025-03-04: Please open source this so we can at least run locally if Google decides to shut it down
Gabri Simo 2025-03-03: Pls make it work again
Dusan Hajduk (C) 2025-02-13: Great!
Aaryan Kapoor 2025-01-17: 5/5. Even supports shortcuts using shift and ctrl.
Joe Hill 2025-01-08: Loved this extension but it seems like Google might have disabled it because "it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions." I hope it get's reinstated because i'll need years to override my muscle memory muscle memory if not lol
Giannis Magkanaris 2024-11-26: Nice, a complementary to Vimium, requires remapping a few key bindings.
Tom 2024-11-18: 'i' hotkey for images not working
Sqrt -1 2024-10-26: Why doesn't the `i` hotkey to switch to images not work?
Владимир Колесников 2024-10-03: Realy good extension, but with one issue, mine "i" hotkey to switch to images doesn't work, but everything else just fine :)
Shufei Chen 2024-08-09: Amazing! Very customizable as well! Made my life much much easier!
Tobiasz B 2024-06-05: Hey, love it. Can you please update the "i" command on Google? (images tab) Best
Sungjoon Cho 2024-06-03: The feature that used to take you to Google Image when you pressed 'i' is currently not working.
Sungjoon Cho 2024-06-03: The feature that used to take you to Google Image when you pressed 'i' is currently not working.
Anton Björk 2024-06-03: Fantastic! How does Google leave this type of functionality up to 3rd party developers? It baffles me
Amir Musa 2024-04-16: Great extension which I used for a long time, unfortunately seem to have stopped working properly for the last few weeks where some shortcuts doesn't work anymore on the google search result page, even after trying to change them under settings.
Benjamin Allen 2024-04-14: J-walking still works. Something updated on Google and now other search engines like Google Images aren't accessible by using those search shortcuts (e.g. 'i' for Google Images).
Reed 2024-03-30: Currently not working, specifically pressing "i" to go to images tab on google. Unin/reinstalled, checked/changed settings. Won't work.
Muhammad Abduqayum 2024-03-21: Instead of z+char shortcut to filter the s+char would be better. (s -> sort)
Ilyas Toleubayev 2024-03-18: life saver! Completely useful to use google without mouse
Hung Hoang 2024-02-01: The navigation to the first search result works well!
Piotr Siwy 2023-11-19: One of the best things that ever happened to google search
Piotr Siwy 2023-11-19: One of the best things that ever happened to google search
Peanut 2023-11-02: I want to be able to disable some shortcuts that take up my other extensions.
Peanut 2023-11-02: I want to be able to disable some shortcuts that take up my other extensions.
Alifağa 2023-09-24: One of my best extension as Programmer.
Alifağa 2023-09-24: One of my best extension as Programmer.
Nick McAvoy 2023-09-19: For the keyboard dominate developer or just plain accessibility this is a MUST HAVE. You can easily google-fu without ever touching a mouse. Perfect for i3 or skhd/yabai!
Nick McAvoy 2023-09-19: For the keyboard dominate developer or just plain accessibility this is a MUST HAVE. You can easily google-fu without ever touching a mouse. Perfect for i3 or skhd/yabai!
Etienne Duverney 2023-07-04: Just perfect, simple and efficient
Etienne Duverney 2023-07-04: Just perfect, simple and efficient
Dongseok Kang 2023-06-28: Can't live the life without this
Dongseok Kang 2023-06-28: Can't live the life without this
Marco Coraggio 2023-04-19: Very good, but "focus on search input" does not work anymore for me, on Google search. I don't want to give less than 5 stars, but please fix this! :)
Marco Coraggio 2023-04-19: Very good, but "focus on search input" does not work anymore for me, on Google search. I don't want to give less than 5 stars, but please fix this! :)
Игорь Евсин 2023-04-09: great, but suddenly ESC stopped working (does not focus on search input anymore)
Игорь Евсин 2023-04-09: great, but suddenly ESC stopped working (does not focus on search input anymore)
Michał Olejniczak 2023-03-02: I love it! Before I've previously used a similar extension that does a similar job, but this one is much better! So powerful, thank you a lot.
Michał Olejniczak 2023-03-02: I love it! Before I've previously used a similar extension that does a similar job, but this one is much better! So powerful, thank you a lot.
soroush jalali 2023-01-26: Broken with the new Google search infinite scroll.
soroush jalali 2023-01-26: Broken with the new Google search infinite scroll.
Chris Mathew 2022-12-13: Works incredibly well!!
Chris Mathew 2022-12-13: Works incredibly well!!
Noah Provenzano 2022-11-30: How chrome should be for programmers and excel hacks by default
Noah Provenzano 2022-11-30: How chrome should be for programmers and excel hacks by default
Вадим Рощупкин 2022-10-17: Nice! Plug and play!
Вадим Рощупкин 2022-10-17: Nice! Plug and play!

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