Most browser actions assume you have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse. Copy is Ctrl+C. New tab is Ctrl+T. Find on page is Ctrl+F. Close tab is Ctrl+W. Every one of these requires reaching for the keyboard.
If you're eating lunch, holding a coffee, on a phone call, dealing with an injury, or simply have your keyboard pushed back — these shortcuts become two-step interruptions. You stop what you're doing, reposition your hand, press the keys, then go back to the mouse.
Here are five common browsing actions that normally require both hands, and how to do all of them with just the mouse using Wilee's radial menu.
1. Copy and Paste
This is the most common two-handed action in browsing. You select text, press Ctrl+C, click somewhere else, press Ctrl+V. Four steps, two of which need the keyboard.
With Wilee: Select your text. Hold the right mouse button — the radial menu appears. Flick toward Copy and release. Click the destination. Hold right mouse button again, flick toward Paste, release. Your hand never leaves the mouse.
This works everywhere — form fields, search bars, address bars, text editors. Wilee detects that you have selected text and surfaces Copy as one of the radial menu options automatically.
2. Switch Between Tabs
Chrome's keyboard shortcut for switching tabs is Ctrl+Tab (next) and Ctrl+Shift+Tab (previous). Power users know Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 to jump to specific tabs. All require the keyboard.
With Wilee: When your cursor is on empty page space (not hovering over a link or selected text), the radial menu shows navigation actions. Flick left for previous tab, right for next tab. It's directional — left goes left in the tab strip, right goes right.
For people with many tabs open, this is faster than Ctrl+Tab cycling, which loops through tabs in most-recently-used order and forces you to watch and release at the right moment. Wilee's left/right is predictable — it always moves one tab in that direction.
3. Find Text on the Page
Ctrl+F opens Chrome's find bar. You type your search term, and Chrome highlights matches. It's essential for long articles, documentation, and reference pages.
With Wilee: Select the word or phrase you want to find, then hold right mouse button and flick toward the Search action. Wilee opens Chrome's find-in-page bar with your selected text pre-filled. You immediately see all matches highlighted on the page — no keyboard needed.
This is particularly useful when you're reading a long page and spot a term you want to trace through the rest of the document. Select it, flick, and every occurrence lights up.
4. Navigate Back and Forward
Chrome has back and forward buttons in the toolbar, but they're small targets in the top-left corner of the window. Keyboard shortcuts exist — Alt+Left and Alt+Right — but again, both hands.
With Wilee: Hold the right mouse button on empty page space and flick left for Back, right for Forward. These are among the first actions users build muscle memory for — after a day or two, navigating your browsing history feels like swiping.
Some mice have dedicated back/forward side buttons, which helps. But many laptop trackpads and basic mice don't. Wilee gives you the same speed regardless of your hardware.
5. Send Text to an LLM
This is the action that has no keyboard shortcut at all. If you want to send a paragraph to ChatGPT or Claude, the typical flow is:
- Select the text
- Ctrl+C to copy
- Open a new tab (Ctrl+T)
- Navigate to chatgpt.com or claude.ai
- Click the input field
- Ctrl+V to paste
- Hit Enter
Seven steps. Two of them require typing URLs. It's enough friction that most people don't bother for quick questions.
With Wilee: Select text. Hold right mouse button. Flick toward the LLM action — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity (you choose which ones appear in your menu). Release. Wilee opens a new tab with your selected text pre-loaded into the LLM's input. One gesture replaces seven steps.
This changes how you interact with AI tools. Instead of copy-pasting long passages when you get around to it, you flick to send a confusing paragraph for explanation, a code snippet for debugging, or a foreign-language sentence for translation — instantly, without breaking your reading flow.
Why One-Handed Matters
One-handed browsing isn't just a convenience — for some people, it's the only option. People with hemiplegia, amputations, severe RSI, or temporary injuries like a broken wrist need the browser to work with one hand. Chrome doesn't accommodate this natively. There's no one-handed mode, no accessibility setting that replaces keyboard shortcuts with mouse-only alternatives.
Wilee fills that gap. Every action that normally requires a keyboard shortcut has a radial menu equivalent. And for users with documented motor disabilities, Wilee Pro is free — because making the web usable shouldn't cost extra.
Getting Started
Install Wilee from the Chrome Web Store. No account required, no setup wizard. The radial menu works immediately on every page. Hold the right mouse button, see the menu, flick toward an action, release.
Give it a few days. The first time you copy text without reaching for the keyboard, it'll feel odd. By the end of the week, you'll flick without thinking about it.