Google Search Keyboard Navigator

A small Chrome extension (Manifest V3) that lets you navigate and open Google search results entirely from the keyboard.

Shortcuts

Key	Action
j / s / ↓	Move to next result
k / a / ↑	Move to previous result
Enter	Open the selected result
o	Open the selected result in a new tab
1–9	Jump straight to result N
/	Focus the Google search box
Esc	Clear the current selection
?	Toggle a small help panel

Shortcuts are automatically disabled while you're typing in a text field (e.g. the search box) so they never interfere with normal typing — press Esc to leave the search box if a shortcut key is needed while focused there.

Install (load unpacked)

1. Install Bun and run bun install.
2. Run bun run build.
3. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
4. Turn on Developer mode (top-right toggle).
5. Click Load unpacked and select the generated dist folder.
6. Run a search on Google — the extension activates automatically on google.com/search (and several other Google country domains listed in manifest.json).

Development and release

• bun run typecheck checks the TypeScript source.
• bun run build compiles src/content.ts with tsc, removes only comments, whitespace, and newlines with Terser (without compression or name mangling), then assembles a loadable extension in dist.
• bun run package builds the extension and creates a versioned Chrome Web Store upload at release/google-search-kbnav-v<version>.zip.

Notes / customization

• If you search on a Google domain that isn't already listed in manifest.json, add a line like "*://www.google.<tld>/search*" to the matches array and reload the extension.
• Google occasionally changes the internal CSS class names of its result blocks. src/content.ts checks a handful of known selectors (.MjjYud, .g, .tF2Cxc, etc.) and validates each candidate by confirming it wraps a title and a link, which makes it fairly resilient — but if results ever stop highlighting, that selector list (near the top of src/content.ts) is the first place to look.
• No permissions beyond running on Google search pages are requested — the extension doesn't read or send any of your data anywhere.