- Click it. Links are colored and underlined.
- Tab through them.
Tabfocuses the next link (Shift+Tabthe previous) and the footer shows where it goes.Enteropens the focused link,Esclets go. - Type a label. Press
f: every link on screen gets a short label (a,s,d,f, …). Type the label to open that link;Esccancels. With your hands on the keyboard this is the fastest way — you do not have to aim.
Notes:
- How links are displayed is a setting (Links), and it does not change
whether they work:
- footnotes (the default): a small number after the link text, and the address listed at the end of the page.
- inline: the address appears next to the link text.
- hidden: just the text — the cleanest look, and links stay clickable.
- A link to a section of the same page (
#section) just scrolls there. - Search engines wrap their results in redirect links so they can count clicks.
wrunwraps them and goes straight to the real target. mailto:,javascript:,tel:and similar links are not followed: you get a notice that says so (cannot open this kind of link: …). Onlyhttp,httpsand localfilelinks are opened.- If a page fails to load you stay on the page you were reading and get a notice. Nothing is lost.