How to use Youtube without a mouse

Youtube is the world's largest online photo and video sharing website. With hundreds of millions of visits every day, this is also an address, a way for many people to store, post and share with friends videos, clips, photos and memories. But do you know, we can do everything, every action, use Youtube with just the keyboard?

Yes, you certainly do not know that Youtube on Windows operating system has the ability to change the interface. And in this new interface, users can operate on YouTube entirely with the keyboard, without the mouse.

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Just by adding a short command to the back, we can change the look of YouTube and use YouTube without a mouse.

Use YouTube entirely with the keyboard

Step 1: From the main interface of Youtube, you click on the address bar and add "/ leanback" to the back end, then Enter .

How to use Youtube without a mouse

Step 2: A completely new interface will appear (temporarily called Youtube "leanback"). From now on, you can put the mouse aside and perform all operations right on your own keyboard. Specifically:

  • Use the 4 arrow keys to search for video clips to watch.
  • Enter to confirm.
  • Some shortcuts like S (search) will help perform the search, ESC to go back or exit ...

For example:

How to use Youtube without a mouse

Use the left and right arrow keys to select clips in the same category (same row).

How to use Youtube without a mouse

In addition, if you are in this interface, you can also use the up / down arrow keys to move, search and change the categories, video categories to watch (top videos with lower rows) .

How to use Youtube without a mouse

Step 3 : After selecting a video like that, press Enter to select and Play always video.

How to use Youtube without a mouse

When watching clips on Youtube, we also use the keys to perform manipulation of the clip:

Arrows to two sides: Move to the next feature (forward, pause, forward ...).

How to use Youtube without a mouse

Use the arrow keys while watching the clip

Up, down arrow: To open a list of other video selections. Especially, with ESC (Back) and S (Search) keys , users can return to the previous section or open the search interface at any time.

How to use Youtube without a mouse

Another small YouTube utility "leanback", is that if you are in the main interface, just press the arrow key to the left , the optional interface (red) will appear and provide a few options such as Home, Search, Settings or Sign In to login to YouTube account ...

How to use Youtube without a mouse

YouTube's "leanback" Search interface is also quite fancy, instead of just a blank, white field, the new interface provides the full alphabet, with numbers, dots, commas, dashes ... to user use.

How to use Youtube without a mouse

The search interface is like a keyboard on a phone

Imagine, if one good day, you are surfing the web, going to Youtube, then the mouse is frozen or you are simply using a laptop, do not want to use an external mouse because it is quite entangled? This will be a perfect help, a completely new experience on Youtube that users hardly know.

I wish you successful implementation!

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