Is it advantegeous to have the focused result highlighted similarly to what DuckDuckGo does, i.e. with a background light colour (very light!) on the entire result filed, rather than having just the result title highlighted?

If set up TAB for next search result (and Shift-Tab for previous, but I suspect any combination with TAB doesn't work properly), navigation seems to be broken.

Here is the result after TAB is pressed one time. Further TAB strokes moves only filled triangle. If at the same time other hotkeys are configured (like j/k and arrows) then pressing them after TAB moves both angular bracket and triangle at the same time.

Btw, thank's for an awesome plugin! saves my life after google disabled native keyboard navigation :(

In v0.2.8 the extension is requesting permission to read my browser history.

Why is this necessary?

Google used to have this shortcut along with the navigation that you made. If we can type any character to bring focus back to the search box it would make searching really awesome again

Since 0.2.8 on Chrome Version: 66.0.3359.139 (Official Build) (64-bit),
when I hit ctrl+center to open a new page it opens in two new tabs, from which one comes to foreground.
This behavior makes google-search-navigator for me unusable.
Someone else having the same problem?

At the top of google there are these "tabs", don't know how you call them.
It would be awesome to switch from the search results to the images page from a shortcut, keeping the search input. So for example searching for "flowers" yield the (normal) list of webpages, hitting ctrl+right and turning to the images page, would display pictures of flowers.
The shortcuts "ctrl+right" and "ctrl+left" are the ones I propose as default for switching between these "tabs".
Info: this feature is implemented in the DuckDuckGo search, altough only with "right" and "left" as keyboard shortcuts.

If theres any more information I can provide just let me know.

NOTE: feedback is welcome from everyone, but I especially want to get @mancze opinion on this as the main contributor to this project.

I'd like to propose to migrate the code of the extension to TypeScript and use its tooling (mainly via gts) to automatically lint and format the code (preferably enforced using commit hooks).

Pros:

• Reducing the likelihood of bugs via static analysis done by the TypeScript compiler and linter
• Better developer experience- TypeScript has better support for autocompletion, refactoring, etc.

Cons:

• Less developers are familiar with the TypeScript language and tooling
• Browsers generally don't support running TypeScript natively which forces the use of a compilation step

Overall I still believe this change to be worthwhile. @mancze what do you think?

There should be a shortcut to jump to the input search and immediately add some words to the search.
Like it was with google instant, just typing for adding words to the input search. But maybe this is not working with the api?

This extension is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Excellent, but what about Safari? ;)

The idea is to support other search engines such as Bing, Amazon, Github, etc.
I envision the code structured in a way that adding basic support for a new website only involves specifying things like the search results selectors, search box selector, etc.
Some of the current features are very specific to Google, and my intention is to keep supporting and enhancing them. This will also need to be reflected in the user options, which will include general navigation options (such as keybinding for next/previous search result and getting back to the search box), and options specific to a website.

@alexbarrett @mancze @rik-smeets
I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

I'm using Chrome: Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
On Windows 10

Since the latest update of Chrome after pressing enter cursor jumps to the bottom.
When I am disabling the extension the behavior is normal.

Would be great to port this valuable addon to the StackExchange networks. As userbase is the same for both websites: keyboard guys, Developers...

It seems we should do it using Stackapps.

For example, this one.

When using the shortcuts (for instance ↓) to navigate the links, the URL tooltip is hiding the result. See gif below.

It would be nice if the page was scrolled down enough to show the whole result:

• Title
• Link
• Description

I love this extension. It's made me much happier when I use Google. However, I have one request.

Please leave the spacebar alone. There is already a way to open links: press the ENTER key. Some people, like me, prefer to keep their hands on the keyboard "home row" (hence the 'vi' keys). We use the spacebar all the time to scroll down a page and it's very aggravating to have it suddenly opening links.

Thanks.

Please add a shortcut "f" for google finance (https://finance.google.com/finance)

Scrolling down search results is not fluid, as when a result at the bottom of the page is marked, the URL address and the google description basically lay on the page below. Page snapping should be improved.

Good job anyway!

Every other keybinding can be changed by the user, so why shouldn't this one be able to, as well?

Having numbers 1,2,3,...,9,0 mapped to result pages 1,2,3,...,9,10 would be a useful feature.

Or mapping them to focus on results 1-10, with control-(1,2,3,...,9,0) mapped to results pages.

Perhaps even adding an option to have the results numbered left of the navigator arrow would be a nice option, with the ability to turn this on and off.

I just downloaded the extension and I love it but I figured this may be a solution to having to press j over and over again to focus on lower results in page.

Let me know what you think! Thank you!

Current core functionality of the extension is attached as direct handlers of the keymaster events. This causes me problems when debugging/fiddling around with the extension. For example it is not easy to invoke "navigate to the next result" command directly from the developer console.

I would like to refactor the main script of the extension to be more "object" oriented. I think it will provide many benefits aside from what I mentioned. I imagine the core somewhat like:

const extension = {
  options: { },

  init: function() {
    // ...
  },

  commands: {
    focusNextResult: function() {
      // ...
    },
    focusPreviousResult: function() {
      // ...
    },
  }
};

extension.init();

What do you think about this? I would implement that but I want to discuss it first.

Would it be difficult to add support for this search page, too?
https://scholar.google.com

If you think it's straightforward I could try a PR.

The results are included in the navigation even when the questions are collapsed, so you have to press down several times to get to the first real result. The HTML structure of these embedded results on this particular page is similar to the main search results. I have come across other "People also ask" boxes that were not included in the navigable result set.

I'm getting this error when I attempt to load the unpacked extension.
I use the src directory since before it was not even finding the manifest.
I'm on Windows 64-bit

Failed to load extension
File
~\Documents\web-search-navigator-master\src
Error
Could not load javascript 'keymaster.js' for content script.
Could not load manifest.

Hello Michal,

It is latest FireFox 61.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 7 SP1. When you make a search on google.com and click on Shopping tab, this extension will automatically focus on the "Next Page" of Shopping page and automatically scroll down to shopping page's very bottom. You have to scroll up every time.

We cannot find this issue on all other google pages.

Could you please fix this bug?

Thank you for your great extension! We love it!
Brian C.

filter search by year,month not working sine few days
was working previously
other keyboard shortcuts are working

Selection can be done by using tab (via regular focus change in the browser), but when trying to navigate (via the extension keybindings), the navigation is done to the top level result instead of the sub-result.

Original email I got which triggered this issue:

Hello,

I wanted to both thank you for your great work on this chrome plugin as well as provide some feedback.

When going through searches it is great if one wants the main result for each result box. But sometimes one result box has kind of like sub-result links at the bottom as seen below. This is especially comun when the result is from an online forum or reddit. The thing is when I use the arrow keys to move through results I can then use tab to move to the sub-results below it and but when I click enter the link it opens is the link with the arrow not the selection box. So there is no way of selecting a subresult with the keyboard shortcuts of the plugin.

Below are 2 images the first one is with the main result selected (with the box). The second image shows the sub-result selected. But on both these images hitting the enter key opens the main result link indicated by the arrow. It would be helpful to change so that the squared link is the one selected.

sub-result "Some search engine tests" selected (reached by tabbing)

Aside from that, great job on the plugin I couldn't believe when google got rid of the instant search functionality that was so helpful. Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Maybe it's just me, but I'm often looking for high resolution images and find myself going to Tools - Size - Larger than - 2MP / 4MP etc. A keyboard shortcut would be very helpful (as is this extension in general, thank you!).

Restricting search to time is something many users do (especially for news, etc.).

May I propose a quick shortcut?

1. Add an option for "Time" (default "t")

2. This opens this dialog (if possible)

3. The focus should go there (this is important), so that with the TAB the user can navigate the options and press enter (or ESC to quit).
   Even better, we could have the proposed letter shortcuts (see screenshot) for fast selection of the time period.

What do you think?

Plugin was working great till today. After search, results page is scrolled down to the very bottom, and "next page" link at the bottom is focused.

Ran into a problem where google.com changed the html structure of the results page slightly.

[document.querySelectorAll('h3.r a'), (n) => n.parentElement.parentElement]

In extension.js was not picking up the new links. I added

[document.querySelectorAll('h3.LC20lb'), (n) => n.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement]

to the SearchResultsCollection to fix the issue. Not sure if this is a temporary, or beta change by google, but I wanted to leave a record of my fix.

Thanks.

Edit: It doesn't seem "Open in a new tab" works with this fix.

If focus is on 1st result, and I middle click on 3rd result, focus should switch to it.

If I recall, original Google Instant used to have such behaviour

I will look into this when I have time (probably in about 1-2 weeks).

When I use the shortcut CtrlReturn, two tabs instead of one are opened on the side. This bug doesn't happen when I use CtrlSpace.

Firefox 59.0.1, Windows 10 64 bit

It'd be nice to support all tabs, including shopping, books, flights, etc.

More generally, maybe support customizing the url to jump, using the current query word. Now this could be debatable since it is similar to what browser is sort of doing, e.g. chrome://settings/searchEngines. But it'd be really nice to have this search google first then go to other sites workflow.

Anyway really appreciate this work, did what google should be doing for decades.

google-search-navigator on chrome is not found on chrome extension store.
Is this eliminated from store?

link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhanced-keyboard-navigat/cohamjploocgoejdfanacfgkhjkhdkek

Yesterday, I received a content infringement complaint from Google regarding the extension for Microsoft Edge. It regards to the usage of the stylized Google 'G' which is used in the logo of the extension.

Because of this, I had to remove the extension from the Microsoft Store and it is therefore no longer discoverable / downloadable.

I'm wondering: @infokiller, @mancze : did you receive similar complaints for for Chrome / Firefox? Maybe we should change the logo either way? After doing that, I can apply for re-submission of the extension in Edge.

The extension for Edge unfortunately did not pass certification for the Microsoft Store. The name of the extension is not compliant with Microsoft Store's policies. Because it complements the functionality of Google Search, the title of the extension has to indicate this relationship. For example, if you have an extension/app containing Word templates, it should be called: Templates for Microsoft Word to be compliant.

So I would like to propose to name the extension Keyboard shortcuts for Google Search. This would apply only for Microsoft Edge and I will do this when packaging the extension, so no changes to this repository will be necessary.

Please let me know @infokiller if you agree with this.

Your link to the chrome extension page no longer works and I'm unable to find the extension in the chrome web store.

The readme.md says there are shortcuts for switching to the image/video tab.

That doesn't work yet.

With the keyboard shortcuts, I can't reach the next page or the following pages.
Maybe right (next) and left (previous) should switch between the pages?

Unfortunately, it is also not working with these Extensions.

After selecting and previewing an image in the Images tab, like this:

Pressing the keybind to focus on the input search box does nothing.

Link of the google search in question: https://www.google.com/search?q=java+catch+multiple+exceptions+in+one+block&oq=java+catch+multiple+exceptions+in+one+block&aqs=chrome.0.0l3.5838j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

It also cannot navigate to those answers, whether they're the first result or down a few.

Since few versions of Google Chrome extension open two tabs except one when I press control+enter on selected search result.

1. User does a search.
2. User browses the search results and navigates to non-first hit.
3. Finds out that the result wasn't what they was looking for. Uses the back button to return to the results.

Expected behaviour:
One would like to continue traversing the results so the focus should be on the result before navigating out.

Actual behaviour:
The first item is focused instead (this actually depends on the setting "focus first search result").

great extension. Only works for www.google.com though, what about www.google.co.uk etc....thanks mucrh

When there is a google cards like when you search 'weather' or 'define ' the page is automatically scrolled down to the first google results after the ads. This makes I can't even see that google info. In case of google's cards lets don't scroll it down.

So far I have noticed it to skip

• Twitter result entry
• Images for %keyword%
• Search pages number (except next)

They should be included in arrow navigation too.