GoFaster Chrome Extension

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GoFaster — Chrome Extension

GoFaster turns Chrome into a keyboard-first browser. Press a shortcut to open a VSCode-style command palette, type to find any open tab, bookmark, or history entry, and switch to it without touching your mouse. Hit F to label every clickable thing on the page with a two-letter hint and click it from the keyboard.

Install from Chrome Web Store

What it does

GoFaster bundles three tools every Vimium / Surfingkeys user knows, in a less opinionated package:

Command palette — Alt+Space opens a fuzzy search bar over your tabs, history, and bookmarks
Link hints — Press F and every visible link/button gets a 1–2 letter label; type it to click
Tab search — Find the right tab when you’ve got 60 of them open without rummaging through Cmd+Tab

If you’ve ever closed an “important” tab by accident because it was lost in a sea of favicons, GoFaster is the fix.

Who it’s for

Developers and power users who already keep hands on the keyboard in their editor and terminal
People with permanent sore wrists from too much trackpad
Anyone managing 30+ tabs at once who needs O(1) access to a specific one

How it differs from alternatives

Vimium is the canonical keyboard-Chrome extension and remains excellent. GoFaster overlaps but has a different philosophy:

Vimium clones vim modal navigation (hjkl, gg, G, :tabnew). Powerful, but the learning curve is real.
GoFaster uses a single command palette plus a few discoverable shortcuts. No modes. No memorising vim semantics. Closer to a Mac Spotlight or a VS Code command palette than to a vim emulator.

If you want full vim, use Vimium. If you want “command palette for the browser” without learning a new modal grammar, GoFaster is lighter on the head.

Default shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`Alt+Space`	Open command palette (search tabs, history, bookmarks)
`F`	Show link hints for every clickable element
`Shift+F`	Open hinted link in a new tab
`/`	Search current page

All shortcuts are remappable via chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

Install and use

Install from the Chrome Web Store
Pin the icon to your toolbar
Press Alt+Space from any page — the palette appears
Start typing — open tabs, bookmarks, and history match by title and URL
Press Enter on the result to switch

To use link hints, focus a regular page and press F. Type the displayed letters to click. Press Shift+F instead to open in a new tab.

Privacy

GoFaster does not collect any data, does not connect to any external service, and does not include analytics. All tab/history/bookmark searches happen locally via Chrome’s standard APIs. Source is auditable on the Chrome Web Store listing.

Frequently asked questions

Will GoFaster slow down my browser?

No. The extension only activates when you press a shortcut. There's no background polling, no per-page injection of heavy scripts, and no telemetry. Memory footprint is minimal.

Does it work on Chrome OS / Linux / macOS / Windows?

Yes — anywhere Chrome or a Chromium-based browser (Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi) runs.

Can I remap the shortcuts?

Yes. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts and rebind any of GoFaster's commands. The defaults avoid common conflicts but you may prefer something else.

Is it free?

Yes. Free, no signup, no paid tier.