It's currently possible to cycle through the links of a page with TAB and Shift-TAB. However, on many pages this is quite slow and frustrating because of the big number of links. It should be possible to jump more quickly to the link one is interested in, based on the visible text of the link. Two suggestions: 1. Each press of an alphanumerical character should move focus to the next link with the first first alphanumerical character matching. The first alphanumeric character of each link could be highlighted somehow as a visual cue, when the focus enters the document window by keyboard action (i.e. in the same case the dotted rectangle is now drawn around a link). 2. Each press would search incrementally for the next matching link. The first (alphanumerical) keypress would move the focus to the next link starting with that letter, the second keypress would move the focus to the next link starting with those two characters and so on. Some visual cue could/should be used to show the matched characters of a link. In both cases, perhaps the status bar could be used to give feedback as well. The document window might be hard to read because of bad background colors etc. I would personally prefer the second idea, I think it would make keyboard browsing a snap. When you see a link you want to go to, just start typing it's "name" until you see it highlighted and press return. Voila!

Very similar to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58852 In that one, you select it from a list or sidebar panel. I actually think both of your methods should work concurrently - that is sequential letters of the same kind and incremental searching of several different letters should both work. The only thing you'd lose is when something begins with two of the same letter, which doesn't happen all that often. Either way, pretty much the same thing as bug 58852. I had envisioned something exactly what you're saying this myself; however, perhaps the list or sidebar panel would be easier to do, while this one might cause some problems with the page jumping around a lot as you type.

I think this should be a marked a dup of bug 58852

-> taking, as part of keyboard navigation This is pretty much exactly what we want to do.

*** Bug 117305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

A note. Mac IE 5.1 has a working implementation of this. Oh, and the incremental search option is better in my opinion...

How about considering the model used by good old vi? In Normal mode (i.e. no ':' prompt) typing /text<enter> moves the insertion point to the next occurrence of "text". After that, /<enter> moves to the next occurrence. This has the advantages of dedicating only one key (/) to this functionality, easy handling of backspaces, and quick and single-handed (at least on US keyboards) repeated "/<enter>"'s to get to the desired link.

See bug 30088

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30088 ***

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