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These stats on Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are pretty interesting but what would really be great is a way to reliably open up the original item in a new tab. The ‘v’ shortcut seems to act differently depending on the item and I can never quite figure out why this happens. Often times the original item opens in the same tab Reader is currently using and that sucks big nuts. Holding shift down + ‘v’ doesn’t work for opening in a new tab because that shortcut trigger is looking for a lowercase ‘v’ not a capital one.

One simple solution to this might be that as you key to an item in Reader (especially via the shortcuts ‘j’ or ‘k’), they could focus () on the link that goes to the outside source/item. Then I could happily hit Ctrl+Enter to launch that link, in a new tab, in the background.

Other than this minor annoyance, I have only wonderful things to say about Google Reader. Thanks for a great free product. And Bloglines: I’m sorry baby, I still feel guilty about dumping you, but you had some mental baggage I just wasn’t willing to deal with. Oh, an you’re ugly too.

UPDATE: As usual, ask metafilter to the rescue. Silly Firefox settings.