Surfingkeys

Rich shortcuts to click links/switch tabs/scroll, capture pages, use your browser like vim for productivity.

What is Surfingkeys?

Surfingkeys is a dynamic Chrome extension that offers convenience and enhanced productivity for users, especially those experienced with Vim and EMACS. It turns your browser into a powerful tool by allowing the use of shortcuts to perform a range of browsing actions such as clicking links, switching or closing tabs, editing input, scrolling, capturing pages and even customizing searches across multiple search engines. With the addition of Javascript, Surfingkeys is easily extendable for personalized user experience.

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By: https://brookhong.github.io

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Users: 20,098 ▼ -59

Rating: 4.65 (266)

Version: 1.15.0 (Last updated: 2023-06-25)

Creation date: 2020-06-02

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

nativeMessaging
<all_urls>
tabs
history
bookmarks
storage
sessions
downloads
topSites
clipboardRead

Size: 1.21M

Email: Click to see

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 6706 ▼ 12

Other rankings

#123 in Functionality & UI ▼ 1

#7 in scroll keyword 23

#42 in browser tab keyword 79 ▼ 2

#59 in close keyword 21 ▼ 1

#108 in target keyword 40 ▼ 1

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Other platforms

Surfingkeys (v1.15.0)

4.86 (88) 1,746

Surfingkeys (v1.13.0)

4.80 (25) 7,376

Summary

Analyze keywords

A Chrome extension for Vim users, but EMACS users would also love it, as it is much extendable with javascript.

to click links

f   Open a link, press SHIFT to flip hints if they are overlapped.
C   Open a link in non-active new tab
cf  Open multiple links in a new tab
gf  Open a link in non-active new tab
af  Open a link in new tab

to switch tabs

E    Go one tab left
R    Go one tab right
x    Close current tab

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Great for productivity and efficiency
Time-saving once users get used to it
Highly customizable
Provides a VIM-like experience on Chrome
Helpful in voice controlling a computer

Cons

Issues with changes in default search provider
Difficulty in customization for non-standard layouts
Issues with PDF viewer
Regular errors and non-responsive pages after updates
Queries about disabling it for specific sites

Most mentioned

Change in default search provider
PDF viewer issues
Errors after update
Issues with customization
VIM-like experience

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Safety

Risk impact

Surfingkeys is not very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.