Ian McShane » Firefox http://www.ianmcshane.org All my stuff in one place Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:20:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Shortcuts and Quicksilver http://www.ianmcshane.org/2007/12/03/shortcuts-and-quicksilver/ http://www.ianmcshane.org/2007/12/03/shortcuts-and-quicksilver/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:34:58 +0000 Ian http://blog.maccarocks.com/2007/12/03/shortcuts-and-quicksilver/
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    • ]]>     I’ve always preferred to use the keyboard more than the mouse so i’ve been intrigued by QuickSilver for a long time. It was almost a weekly subject on the LifeHacker RSS feed for a while earlier this year. Being a Mac only app, I was pretty jealous, but was fine with the CTRL + R shortcut to bring up the Run box in Windows…

    I’ve been using QuickSilver for a couple of weeks now and haven’t really scratched the surface of it. I only use it to open apps quickly (Terminal, Eclipse, Textmate) and haven’t gotten around to seeing what the right hand box can offer just yet. It certainly beats having a massive Dock or trawling through the Applications folder.

    On another but related note, what’s the deal with Firefox (Mac), Safari and webpage check boxes?
    I’m used to being able to tab down a web form and submitting without having to use the mouse at all. However on my Mac, neither browser will tab to the checkbox. It’s so much quick to tab to it and hit space than to muck about with the mouse/trackpad.

    Is this just a config thing or is it really by design? To me, it seems a bit of a usability issue. Of course i’m no expert on that subject really.

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