Open Your Favorite Websites Using Keyboard Shortcuts

SiteLauncher Open Your Favorite Websites Using Keyboard Shortcuts Computer power users always love to use keyboard to access most of their favorite computer program what if, we can access our favorite websites with keyboard shortcuts. Firefox users can access their favorite websites with keyboard shortcuts by using the Firefox plug-in SiteLauncher. SiteLauncher extension is come with some of most useful websites like Amazon,eBay and many other. Using SiteLauncher is really easy, Firefox users just have to install the SiteLauncher Firefox extension and it offers a very simple and user friendly interface to manage and add new shortcuts to your favorite websites.

Feature highlights
  • Because each site key is displayed in the Launcher, you don’t have to memorize a bunch of key combinations to have shortcuts to loads of sites, only one hotkey.
  • Default hotkey is customizable, in case you need it for something else.
  • Add as many sites to SiteLauncher as you want.
  • Just about any character key can be associated with a site, you’re not limited to just a-z, 0-9.
  • Because you press the hotkey first, no matter what key you assign to each site, you can be sure you will not cause conflict with any of Firefox’s built-in shortcuts
  • Highly customizable appearance – change colors, text size, spacing, column size, etc
  • Optional visual effectstransparency, rounded corners, and gradients
  • You can have your site shortcuts automatically arranged or manually arranged in the order you want them to appear inside the Launcher
  • Set Launcher to open sites in current or new tab
  • Optionally, set Launcher to appear on startup instead of your homepage.

Default Hotkey

Hotkey Default Description
Launcher Ctrl+Space (or Ctrl+Alt for Mac users) Press the Launcher hotkey to bring forward the Launcher. Then, simply press the key indicated in the Launcher for the site you wish to launch.
(Alternative) Direct-to-site Shift+Alt (or Shift+Ctrl for Mac users) An alternative hotkey which doesn’t show the Launcher. It’s included for people who would prefer to use their memory instead of the Launcher, you can safely ignore it otherwise. Because this hotkey doesn’t provide visual feedback to indicate when it’s active, you have to keep it pressed down while pressing the key for the site you want.

Default sites

SiteLauncher comes with a set of default shortcuts to a number of popular and/or useful websites: Amazon (an affiliate link), Google Calendar, Dictionary, Digg, eBay (an affiliate link), Facebook, Gmail, Google, IMDB, LifeHacker, MySpace, Reader, Wikipedia, YouTube. The defaults should get you started, but you can of course easily delete the websites you don’t want, and add as many new ones as you want.

Requirements

Supports all versions of Firefox 2 and 3 to date.

Known to work on the following Operating Systems:

  • Windows (tested on XP and Vista)
  • Linux based (tested on Debian Etch)
  • OSX X (tested on Tiger and Leopard)


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One comment

  1. Eugenia Mcloskey
    #1

    Great post!! I just have to copy it

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