It's hard to conceal that using only a keyboard speeds up your performance in writing code. That's evident, especially to Vim-like users. To entirely avoid using a mouse and only stick to the keyboard, we're going to switch to shortcuts where possible; plus, we'll install a few Chrome extensions that will allow us to navigate through the pages, history, or links more quickly.

Chrome hotkeys

There are the hotkeys that every Chrome user should be aware of.

Window

Tabs

History

URL Bar

More Google Chrome shortcuts can be found here:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Ctab-window-shortcuts

Chrome extensions

Chrome Show Tab Numbers

Chrome Show Tab Numbers is a very simple but very helpful Chrome extension.

It simply shows tab numbers, and that's it. Why do we need tab numbers?

In the tabs hotkey section, you see the hotkey that lets you navigate using the "Cmnd+n", where "n", is the number of the tab you want to jump in. With this hotkey, you can navigate using the keyboard, and you don't need to count as the current extension will do everything for you. Just click Cmnd+3 if you want to open the third tab, or Cmnd+7 if you want to open the seventh tab, etc.

Vimium

Generally speaking, Vimium is a simple extension miming Vim in the browser.

The most important shortcut is ? it shows a popup window with all shortcuts.

Let's go through a few that I like the most.

Navigation

Let's open Python website.
If you hit f or F, the characters will appear throughout the whole page. Like on the picture below.

Note: You choose F over f when you want to open link in the new tab.

Now you have to choose what action do you want to perform. For instance if you want to go to "about" page you can hit se and you'll be navigated to "about" page. The same goes for the rest. You can deal with inputs, buttons links, etc.

If you just want to scroll down hit d if up u. In case you want to go to all the way down hit G.

Selection

To select text, you need to search for it first with / then hit v and select the text you want to copy.

Using the vomnibar

Click b or B to search for a bookmark.

To navigate the bookmark list, use Ctrl+n or Ctrl+p, and select Enter.

Note: By clicking on Ctrl+o, you can navigate to the tab you want to. Note: By clicking on T, you can navigate to recently visited tabs.

Vimium Wiki

Wiki describes more features, for instance, how to customize shortcuts. It also has more information than in the help window :) , for instance, what is visual caret mode, etc.

More here: https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki

Dark Reader

I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I can't resist mentioning this extension. I personally use dark themes whenever possible because they're easier on my eyes, allowing me to work longer. That's why I want to recommend the Dark Reader extension.