hit meh! with your leet keyboard skills (the mouse is so 20th century)

[sophiaserpentia]

If you've got keyboard shortcut tips -- on Windows, Firefox, other popular applications, please share them! The less I have to use a mouse, the less pain I'm in.

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[discoflamingo.livejournal.com]

For launching stuff without browsing and clicking, I swear by Launchy on Windows. I mapped it to Alt-Space and never looked back.

Remapping the Caps Lock key as another Ctrl key has really made my finger mileage go down considerably.
Windows-d for minimizing every open window, if you should find you have too many.
Shift-F10 usually opens a context-sensitive menu which you can manipulate with the arrow keys (try it in Firefox - it's pretty awesome).
Ctrl-+ and Ctrl-- for zooming in and out (works on most applications I know).
Ctrl-Home for the start of a document, Ctrl-End for the end.
I like to use Ctrl-F to scroll down through web pages rather than using Page Up/Down.
Alt-Tab and Alt-Shift-Tab for rotating between windows; Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab for rotating between tabs in Firefox.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Shift-F10 is, if I recall correctly, the keyboard version of right-clicking. It is very helpful to know that there's a way to do that with both keyboard and mouse.

Just curious -- why Ctrl-F over Page Down? Less need to move the hands? On my keyboard Page Down is halfway to the mouse, practically...

[discoflamingo.livejournal.com]

Since I spend most of my days in emacs (where the concept of "pages" means little to nothing), incremental search is almost always faster when chugging through medium-large files than manually paging down. It's a habit that liberally spills over from my largely text-processing-oriented computer experience :-)

ETA: If one considers that every time one reaches for a mouse a "cache miss" or a failure of my input design, then the arrow keys and the Insert::Page Down keys are roughly half failure in my mind.