Why the hell didn’t any of you guys tell me about this before? Caret navigation! I didn’t know that was possible in a web browser!
Neat! That’ll come in handy the next time my mouse bites the dust and I’m too lazy to go out and buy a new one right away.
Dude, you didn’t know that?!?!?!?!?!
[sub]Okay, neither did I.[/sub]
That’s been possible in browsers since pretty much forever. Nobody uses it though because it’s a pain in the ass; tabbing over to the link or box you want can often take forever on pages that have a lot of clickable elements. However, it has come in handy at times when I’ve been troubleshooting a computer when it can’t use the mouse (such as in safe mode with some USB mice on systems without legacy USB support.)
You can navigate Windows this way, too.
The number of clickable elements doesn’t matter in caret browsing.
AH – now I see, having turned on Caret browsing in Firefox. However, it’s not that intuitive; caret browsing doesn’t work well in div layers/iframes as they’re treated a bit like their own pages, so moving right to the end of the line in a div layer simply returns it to the beginning of the next line in the same div layer; to switch layers you have to move up and out of that layer.