If you want to give your mouse a
rest as you browse the web, you can install an add-on that lets you scroll and
open links on web pages without clicking. Our favourite tool for the job is the
Chrome extension Click-free Browsing, which adds a set
of arrow icons to the right-hand side of your browser. When you want to scroll
up or down, either incrementally or to the top or the bottom of the page, just
hover your mouse over one of the up or down icons.
You can also move back or forward
a page using the left or right arrows. Similarly, to open links on pages,
simply hover your mouse over them then hover over the icon that appears.
Click-free Browsing works perfectly and you can customize it to change the
color of its icons, prevent them from appearing at all on certain sites and
delay the time it takes the add-on to perform actions.
There isn’t a direct equivalent of
Click- free Browsing for Firefox, but Mouseless Browsing is worth a look for its quirky approach to web navigation. It assigns a unique
ID number to every link, button and form element on a page. To open a link or
select an element, just hold down Ctrl and type its number. Alternatively, to
open It in a new tab, hold down Alt instead. Mouseless Browsing feels slightly
cumbersome at first, but you soon get used to it and feel the relief of being
able to bypass all that clicking.
