steve0hh

Chrome Losing Focus On Webpage

11 May 2013

For those that uses vimium, have you always encountered a time where the focus is lost and not on the webpage and will render every shortcut in viumium useless?

I always used to hate that as I didn’t wanted to move my hands to my mouse and always trying to hit the tab button and hopefully the focus would magically appear.

Well! There’s a workaround for that! :)

To open your search engines settings, type the following in your URL bar in chrome.

chrome://settings/searchEngines

Then add a entry to it under the Other search engines, scroll to the bottom, you should see 3 empty fields like the second image below.

Now, add the shortcut!

Under the field Add a new search engine, input something like “Focus on webpage” or something.

Then for the keyword, add the preferred shortcut for your choice to trigger it to make your computer focus on the page.

My preference is

f

Then in the URL with %s in place field, add:

javascript:

It should look something like the image below.

Then hit the Return key.

So after adding, the settings panel will look like this.

Then hit the done button! :)

##How to use it?

So there comes to a scenario, where the focus is not on the page!

So most likely I’ll have to hit the tab key a few times before I get my focus on the webpage and be able to use my vimium shortcuts.

Now, time to demostrate the workaround! :)

Hit CMD + L for mac users or CTRL+L for windows user.

Then hit the shortcut u added for the second field, mine was f

Then hit the Return key!

There! Focused back on the page! Vimium FTW! :)

Regards,

Steve