Some people prefer using the keyboard over the mouse when possible. This list is for you. It is not a complete list of shortcuts, but the most common ones are listed here along with those that do not appear in BumperCar's menus. For a complete listing of all BumperCar menu items and corresponding keyboard shortcuts, please see the Menu Command Reference. The page on URLs also lists many handy tips for working with zap (URL) icons.

Hands-free operation can be nice, too. Read the General preferences section to learn about using speech to navigate pages in BumperCar.

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= Command (or "Apple", or "Flower")
= Option (or "Alt")
= Control
= Arrow keys
= Click the mouse
= Click and drag the mouse

History

or delete
Goes back one page in history.


Go forward one page in history.

Links

Select the next link.


Select the previous link.


Selects the link without following it.


Follows the link in a new window which follows your mouse as you drag.


Drags an image in a new window which follows your mouse as you drag.


When an image on a web page is also a link, holding the shift key before you start to drag will drag the image instead of the link it points to.

(typing a sequence of characters)
Finds and selects a link whose titles match the sequence typed, starting from the first letter of the link title (scrolling the page if necessary to display the selected link) (i.e. Typing 'main' on this page will select the link "Main Table of Contents" at the bottom of this page.)

Return
Follows the selected link.

Forms

Tab
Sends focus to the next form element on a page (unless the currently selected element is a text area, see below).

Tab
Sends focus to the previous form element on a page (unless the currently selected element is a text area, see below).

Tab
Sends focus to the next form element on a page when focus is currently in a text area.

Tab
Sends focus to the previous form element on a page when focus is currently in a text area.

Spacebar

Popups: opens the menu of the selected popup, or closes the menu with currently highlighted item selected
Checkboxes: checks or unchecks the box
Radio buttons: puts the button in it's selected state
Form buttons: activates the button as though it were clicked.


Popups: opens the menu if it is closed, moves selection in menu up by one when open.


Popups: opens the menu if it is closed, moves selection in menu down by one when open.

Escape
Closes a popup menu without making a selection.

(typing a sequence of characters)
Automatically chooses any item in a popup menu matching what you typed, starting with the first letter of the item in the menu.
i.e In a list of country names, with the popup in focus (showing a focus ring around the element) but not open, typing 'can' would result in 'Canada' being automatically selected.

Other

Spacebar, Page Down, or
Scrolls down by one page.

Spacebar, Spacebar, Page Up, or
Scrolls down by one page.

Home / End
Scrolls to the beginning or the end of the page, respectively.

. (Period)
Stops loading of the current page.

. (Period) or Escape
Cancels most of BumperCar's modal dialogs and panels.