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Adds keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys back to Google search results

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Description from store 1.1.20 - Updated Google selectors - Web result with child links 1.1.19 - Updated Google selectors. Deprecation cleanup. 1.1.18 - Further restricted domains the extension will run on 1.1.17 - Added option to include a space at the end of search query when focusing the search box - Updated selectors 1.1.16 - Updated search box selector to accommodate Google search updates (now using textarea instead of input) 1.1.15 - Updated Google selectors. 1.1.14 - Fixed bug where first result would be skipped if auto focus first was not selected - Fixed array index out of bounds exception after last result - Added back navigation for footer links. Don't highlight footer links - Pulled addResultHighlight, findContainer back into their own methods - Removed focus/text property separation. Selector guarantees they'll always be the same - Style updates - Added safeguard to detect outdated selectors - Pulled all selectors out into their own properties 1.1.13 - Fix for issue #23. Updated Google selectors 1.1.12 - Fix for issue #19. Updated Google selectors 1.1.11 - Fix for issue #16. Updated Google selectors 1.1.10 - PR #15 - Updated selector to handle new search variation 1.1.9 - Don't wrap when arrow is prepended to search results - Bug Fix: Display marker when first result is automatically selected - Fix issue #8 - Only activate the first link for each result (don't focus "Translate" or other links) 1.1.8 - Updated simple selector styling 1.1.7 - Updated selectors to accommodate Google search updates 1.1.6 - Added support for news, books, and video search results. - Prevent hotkeys from triggering when modifier is active - Prevent hotkeys from triggering when using calculator 1.1.5 - Scroll to the selected search result if it's not fully visible - Added an option to automatically select the first search result 1.1.4 - Fix issue #4 - do not remove focus from *any* input elements (type=number, etc.). 1.1.3 - Fix issue #1 - do not remove focus from input elements 1.1.2 - Fixed issue navigating between results when "People also searched for" was displayed 1.1.1 - Don't activate search if a modifier key is used (i.e., CMD+C) - Remove selected result outline if another styling method is chosen - Focus footer navigation links after search results - Change "J/K" setting to "VIM Style" - option now causes "/" to focus the search box 1.1.0 - Added styling for active search result (option may be toggled on or off) - Allow search box activation to be disabled - Allow customization of navigation hotkeys (TABS, ARROWS, and J/K) - Self-documentation of shortcuts - all available shortcuts (and customization) is displayed on the options page - Updated icons - Fixed error where result navigation would not work properly if an Ad was displayed - Added support for Google Scholar 1.0.1 - Update manifest - allow all Google TLDs 1.0.0 - Initial Install

Latest reviews

(2025-03-22) Sungjoon Cho: When using this extension, abnormal behavior can be observed after clicking the 'News' tab in Google search. If you enter a search term and press Enter in the 'News,' 'Videos,' or 'Short Videos' tabs, the page scrolls down uncontrollably, as if the 'PageDown' key was pressed. However, this bug does not occur when the 'Automatically select the first search result (experimental)' option is disabled. This seems to be caused by the extension automatically focusing on the first search result upon searching. Even if this option is disabled, the same bug occurs when navigating the search results using the 'J' or 'Arrow Down' key.
(2023-04-16) iRokr: The "Focus the search box when any key is pressed" is no longer working for some reason :/ OLD review: This is amazing! Thanks so much for making this, Jacob! I hate google so much some times! I really need to learn to make chrome extensions.
(2023-03-25) Lo Axhamre: 100 % invaluable! 🙏
(2022-10-03) Marcus Widerberg: Broken. Does not work (atm): Down arrow jumps to section below search results - currently related searches, and highlights it (first related search). It does not move to next search result. So you have to go back up again.
(2022-09-29) Radley Sustaire: It's difficult to use google without this extension! Only problem is that it takes too long to register the hotkeys. I often press the down arrow to get the first result but it hasn't registered, so it scrolls the page down instead. Then when it does register it starts at the bottom of the page. A bit frustrating. Google Instant was quicker than that.
(2022-06-25) Armin Ghorbanian: Clashes with ctrl+tab (tab cycler) of my browser (Vivaldi).
(2022-04-07) Alex Spies: Broken on edge atm, but loved it when it was working :)
(2022-01-30) Muzaffer Barut: Could you please add the next page shortcuts on google search results?
(2022-01-22) Torben Keller: I love it! Especially the "Add additional styling to the selected search result" option is just awesome! The only thing that would make it perfect is the scrolling behaviour. When I tab through the results and the next result is below the viewport, the next selected result sticks to the bottom of the viewport which makes it a bit hard to read the result. It would be awesome if you could always see the next result so it scrolls already when switching from the second last to the last result in the viewport
(2022-01-09) Martin Roa Villescas: If it is not too much effort, would it be possible to port this extension to duckduckgo?
(2021-11-03) Nn Ib.B: great extension but lacks only shortcuts to go to images, videos, all tabs in google search
(2021-10-20) Federico Cucinotta: Very handy extension, I really like using it. Only thing is that it sometimes skips some results and goes directly to related searches. Some other parts are also a bit buggy. Let me know if you want me to email you with my observations!
(2021-10-01) Ilya Mur: Really good app. It is actually woking.
(2021-05-04) Some Dude: Is there a way to include the search query corrections google offers in the selected results' shortcuts? EDIT: Stopped working today all of a sudden. EDIT 2: Started working again :D
(2021-04-16) G R: Perfect!! Works! в отличие от всех остальных.. Спасибо за саппорт решения! Ctrl+Enter в соседней вкладке. Осталось теперь найти как переключаться на эти новые открытые вкладки только клавой..
(2021-04-15) yf Zhang: Cannot use now. SAD.
(2021-04-14) Bruce 'Batman' Wayne: Hey mate. It's me once again. The extension broke down once again. Probably due to google making certain changes to their website. It now only works partially only on some searches. Kindly fix this issue if possible. Once again, really grateful for this extension :)
(2021-04-14) Burak Kakillioglu: great tool! thanks.
(2021-02-01) Michał Olejniczak: Very useful extension. Thanks a lot!
(2021-01-30) sjune Kim: it's very useful & simple.
(2021-01-19) Caleb Young: Seems like a great feature but what are the keyboard shortcuts? It can scroll through images with the arrow keys but that's it.
(2021-01-13) Derrick Cho: As of Jan 13, Extension stopped working.
(2021-01-07) M: すごく便利です。いつもありがとうございます。
(2020-12-23) Vinayak Mhetre: Power of keyboard with power of Google.
(2020-12-04) Johann Schnettker (CobblePVP): I try to do most of my work, just using the keyboard, this brings me a bit closer to actually achieving that! thanks for this awesome extension!
(2020-10-02) Sergey Tselovalnikov: Potentially, due to a change on the Google's side, the extension stopped working.
(2020-10-01) I also find this extension vital to my workflow. But like "Bruce 'Batman' Wayne", the tab/arrow/j/k scrolling functionality broke today. I'm guessing because google pushed an update. Sounds like they've done updates that have broken this extension functionality in the past, so hopefully not too difficult a fix.
(2020-10-01) Bruce 'Batman' Wayne: Hi. The extension is a life saver for me. Thank you so much. HOWEVER, the tab button to navigate through the page is not working anymore. I'm too dependent on this extension and it is affecting my workflow. Please fix it Mr.Jacob as soon as possible. Thank you once again :)
(2020-09-03) Bip901: Fairly customizable with several options, and it simply works. EDIT 3/9/2020: This just became unusable, the extension highlights the second "o" in Gooooogle (again, after the 2018 fix). This scrolls down to the bottom of the Google search page.
(2020-08-27) Cindy Cindy: I use it everywhere. Great extension!
(2020-06-27) Guy Fox: can't search images or videos
(2020-06-24) Joao Gustavo: Excelent extension! Can you do the same for Youtube search page too ? It would be amazing, great job!
(2020-02-29) Hasnain A. Zia: Excellent. Can even modify original search query by simply typing on the search results page. Thank you!
(2019-10-11) Gabriel Potvin: Super underrated. Thanks for this; I install it on every computer I work with.
(2019-08-05) awesome! I actually get sore hands from holding a mouse too long, but the keyboard never gives me any problems so this is perfect!
(2019-07-11) Abhilash V R: I love this extension, it makes everything so much easier. Thank you so much! I have one suggestion : if a shortcut can be added to switch to the "Images" tab of the results, then it'd be awesome.
(2019-06-08) Marcin Pazowski: I'm using it only 2 minutes but it's really great. TIP: You can add instructions with keys this extensions use. I know that I can find it in options but I am not sure that everyone know about that.
(2019-03-27) helpful extension!
(2019-01-11) Edwin Shepherd: Google should just make this part of search
(2018-12-04) Benedikt Straßner: This would be perfect with an option to skip the "Translate this page" links (and maybe the indented "subpages" when searching for a big site too). I use those so rarely that I would rather switch to the mouse when I need them than navigate past them all the time. Edit: Translate links are now skipped. Developer listens to feedback, awesome!
(2018-12-03) Ohad Navon: This is absolutely brilliant! Can't believe Google hasn't implemented it
(2018-11-18) Shiv Rathe: Super Useful extension. Thanks!
(2018-11-15) Karl Erik Steinbakk: Super!! :-)
(2018-10-23) Seokwoo Jung: Thank you for good extension. However, I want to skip "Translate this page" while navigating. Is it possible?
(2018-10-19) Mladen Petrovic: Something weird happens sometimes and i am not able to use control + tab on mac to shift through chrome tabs. I don't have any other extension that edits google search results.
(2018-10-18) AOT: This is very helpful to navigate through the search results! Thanks.
(2018-10-16) Eti Dix: Awesome! It's been a while I've been looking for it ! Thx a lot !!!
(2018-10-11) lalablah: I like jk bindings.. Thank you!
(2018-10-06) M D: This extension would be perfect if they added one more function [Space] to open the search result and [Shift + Space] to open the search result in a new tab
(2018-10-02) greeven ilVec: Using it for ages. Just wanted to report a bug: the arrow left to the search results when going through them with the up and down arrow keys aren't showing up except for image results. Can you fix it? Chrome Version: 69.0.3497.100 Plugin just installed.

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