Vimium-C is a rewrite and is better, and more well-documented.
Didn’t know Thanks. Also added it to post
Thank you, Vimium has recently been getting out of whack for me. Whenever I use it to scroll, the clickable areas don’t scroll at the same rate until I use my trackpad to scroll, which really defeats the purpose of keyboard navigation
These plugins just never work quite as well as a browser made specifically for it, namely Qutebrowser. Trouble with Qutebrowser is that’s it’s Python and parsing a lot of links slows it down. Still the best browser out there for this use case though, as far as I know.
You might be interested in Nyxt
What is Nyxt?
Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI and semantic document tools that work as a second brain to help you process and understand more, more quickly.
Not sure I like that pitch, but looks interesting otherwise
Didn’t know about this one. It’s so awesome. Added it to the post.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
Tried Qutebrowser once but it was too complicated for my brain
I’m trying to create Workspaces support for Qutebrowser via a custimsed config file that uses session saving and loading to essentially create Workspaces that one can switch between but it’s a PITA.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surfingkeys_ff/
SurfingKeys is another such extension and my favorite one. In addition to the Vim like controls, it supports ton of additional functionality, including editing content in a small Vim like editor with
Iwhen needed (:wqwill close popup window and update the text in the edit field), supports Vim marks withm, copy url withyyor many other clipboard related stuff, is configured in JavaScript, so you can access to anything what the browser does directly.BTW screenshots were taken by opening the help with
?(Shift+/) on a webpage, and then using the its own screenshot capability to capture scrolling elementyS. Which will only capture this element, not the entire webpage, in this case the help.Cool. Added it to post.
Do you exit it with escape colon q bang?
Asking the real questions
You dont need to exit it don’t worry about it.
I’ll be honest with you guys. I thought vim navigation in a browser is just a gimmick and clunky. But the more I used it, the more I fell in love with it. I find it hard to use a browser without vim. Simple actions like searching and navigating (inside the page and across tabs) is a breeze. If you are vim user, you should definitely try it.
The concept is great, going to install later and give it a try.
Edit: oh yeah it’s great
But it doesn’t focus new tabs you opened automatically. You can configure it to do so. But I’m so lazy I want things to work the way I want them to out of the box.
