I’m liking Konqueror more and more each day. Just today I discovered this wonderful neat trick. I had noticed that once in a while some weird characters would appear all over my konqueror window and I thought the display was going bad or something was messed up in Konqueror.

Well, it turns out that if you press “Ctrl”, Konqueror will assign single-character hotkeys to each of the //visible// links on the page. And so you can just press ’1′ or ‘X’ or whatever key konqueror has assigned to a link to jump to that page without ever having to move around your mouse. And its a great accessibility feature as well — when I don’t have a mouse handy, I hate pressing tabs to move around links.

And I just realized that Konqueror is really smart in figuring out exactly **which** links it should consider. Try it out for yourself.

Neat.

**Update (2005/10/12)**: this not only works for links, but also for form fields and buttons! I’m attaching a screenshot below.

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