I used to use the keyboard a lot in Opera back in the day. Favorites included searching for links on the page by text and pressing enter to get there, and navigating back/forward using "link rel" tags in the documen (for example, you could go to the "next page" regardless of the browser history)
I seem to recall that web pages were steadily making it harder for it to work. E.g no "a href" or "link rel"s.
Here's hoping that Nyxt will have success in bringing this era back!
I have fond memories of Presto Opera as well. It also had geospatial navigation between the links (go to a link that is visually closest to the left/right/top/bottom) that normally may require tab-bing to death if something is visually close but far in DOM
BTW, "go to next/prev page" would also look for user-configurable strings inside. So you could define the strings from DOM on pages that you often visit and indeed you would breeze over those pages then. Useful on discussion boards etc.
And oh and the built-in and configurable ultra-powerful mouse gestures...
I seem to recall that web pages were steadily making it harder for it to work. E.g no "a href" or "link rel"s.
Here's hoping that Nyxt will have success in bringing this era back!