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Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

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Re: Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

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Post by wooger »

lordfoom wrote: post #19
darkr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pentadactyl is EOL. Vimperator is still being actively developed..

I think that's an assumed EOL on Pentadactyl because of Electrolysis. The devs don't talk but the community is trying to come up with a way to continue. Vimperator has similar issues with Eloctrolysis, I think? I hope pentadactyl makes it, cos it's my favorite of the vim extensions. Vimperator just doesn't feel as advanced.

They're both about the same, but vimperator is more frequently updated for compatibility with new Firefox versions.

That alone is much more useful for me.

Re: Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

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Post by patrickjson »

b3n wrote: post #18
thameera wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a long time cVim user I've found out that 99% of my browsing can be done with its scroll up/down and open link features. When combined with this switch to recent tabs extension, the mouse becomes almost irrelevant: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggle-switch-rece...

Vimium has the `visitPreviousTab` built in for toggling between two tabs.

There is something like this in Surfingkeys,

B - Go one tab history back F - Go one tab history forward

Re: Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

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Post by tremon »

wooger wrote: post #21
lordfoom wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's an assumed EOL on Pentadactyl because of Electrolysis. The devs don't talk but the community is trying to come up with a way to continue. Vimperator has similar issues with Eloctrolysis, I think? I hope pentadactyl makes it, cos it's my favorite of the vim extensions. Vimperator just doesn't feel as advanced.

They're both about the same, but vimperator is more frequently updated for compatibility with new Firefox versions. That alone is much more useful for me.

For me, I'm tracking Firefox esr anyway, so I don't get hit with incompatibility that often.

Re: Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

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Post by scns »

jlgaddis wrote: post #13
dgquintas wrote: post #2

There's also vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

I've tried a bunch of these "vim-like" plugins and I always come back to Vimium (on Chrome). On Firefox I'm stuck with Vimperator, which means I don't use Firefox very often.

you should check out VimFX for firefox, its modeled after Vimium but i like it even better.

Re: Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

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Post by mercer »

For another approach to power-tooling your browser, have a look at Gleebox (http://thegleebox.com/). I use it constantly to navigate between pages, to get a readable version of the page (!read), and to switch between tabs using a fuzzy-search approach. On some sites I've even added custom jquery-based selectors to quickly navigate around the pagfe.
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