Browsing without a mouse

Why on earth? Since the development of WIMP, the mouse has roared! Nobody can do without it, and nobody wants to!!(squeal)

I am not talking about mobile devices where this is thought to be cool!!!
http://mobizinesupdate.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-mobizines-for-mouseless-devices.html

Oh! But so many people hate the mouse. It slows them down. Gives them pain in their hands and forearms. And on laptops - those mice are just awful! See the flat tops you have to caress or the little "gears" stuck in between the keys! Bloody awful.

What can one do?

Use voice! Thats soooo cooool! Heard of Nuance and their DNS? Doesn't quite work in linux and not in Macs, but in windows, it does a wonderful job for $200 or so, until the many windows viruses hit your throat. And of course, everyone hears your password and everything you write and every site you go to.....

:-(

What can one do?

Look at these

Firefox - add on and add on and add on - what the hell do they have in it without the add ons?
http://www.universefirefox.com/add-ons/browse-the-internet-without-using-the-mouse-mouseless-browsing
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/879
http://www.rudolf-noe.de/index.php?/content/view/14/26/
http://mlb.rudolf-noe.de/

Er..! You could just press this comma key and then type in the name of the link you need too...

Opera - part and parcel for years and years - even the uses did not know they had it !
http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/nomouse/

IE?

just forget it!


There is a FOSS software that can write with a mouse! But here we don't want those sweet creatures....(Sorry Micky and Jerry and all those loved mice from our favourite world of believing)

Using Gmail? mouselessly - http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_keyboard_gm.htm

Define Your Own Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

To change the default Gmail keyboard shortcuts to more handy keys:

• Follow the Settings link in Gmail.
• Go to the Labs category.
• Make sure Enable is selected under Custom keyboard shortcuts.
• Click Save Changes.
• Follow the Settings link again.
• This time, go to the Keyboard Shortcuts section.
• Edit all desired keyboard shortcuts.
  • Use '\' together with the corresponding decimal ASCII code to use non-printable characters. "\27" stands for ESC, for example, and "\127" for DEL (you cannot, alas, use the latter for the text input field only accepts three characters).
• Click Save Changes

Eureka! No mice, see? see?