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Thanks for the tip. The 'f' tip is quite nice--much nicer than I have previously experienced with Vimperator and the like. For you Firefox users out there, there is a Vimium fork for Firefox called Vimium-FF.
I settled with Surfingkeys after I tried Vimium, Vimium C, Pentadactyl and Vimperator. Here's my Surfingkeys configuration as an ex-Vimium user: map('F', 'gf'); Hints.characters = "asdgqwertzxcvb"; It makes open in new tab behave like Vimium and f work like a toggle. Hope this helps someone looking for a better option migrating from Vimium. [0] https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
For instance on this page if you type "look ma" it searches the text, and selects the first occurence, which is the link. You can then press enter and it will open the link. Or ctrl+enter to open in a new tab.
I use it everyday, it's easy and convenient, you don't need to think much ; you simply start typing the some letters of the link you want to open.
I'm glad this was posted. I really liked how they introduced only one feature; that was enough to push me to install and get past "I don't know vim, why would I like this". I can press 'f' and type letters to follow links. No vim-ness. Just a nice feature. (You can press "?" to see more features.) (I used an XUL-based web browser with Emacs keybindings many years ago and loved it. But I had to switch to Chrome, and X…
> I can press 'f' and type letters to follow links. You can get this with standard Firefox, no extension needed. For instance, on the HN main page, hit ' (single-quote) then "vi" then [enter] and you'll follow the link to this article.
I was a religious VimFX user and I can tell you that i mourn having lost that. It's like an era of powerful browsing ended. I use the mentioned Vimium addon, but it's not even close to what we had with VimFX.
Does the keyboard shortcuts in Vimium work when the page is loading? No. How nice is it to have keyboard shortcuts that work sometimes? Extremely frustrating.
How about using "o" to get to the address bar (CMD/CTRL+L)? It opens some overlay on the page where I can't access my bookmarks.
I could go on. VimFX is still somewhat maintained, but you have to run an unsecure browser to use it (like WaterFox).
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> I can press 'f' and type letters to follow links. You can get this with standard Firefox, no extension needed. For instance, on the HN main page, hit ' (single-quote) then "vi" then [enter] and you'll follow the link to this article.
Is this documented anywhere? Search results are only showing plugins that have been discussed here.
I wrote a Chrome extension with a similar purpose. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ctrl-access/glmoeh... The idea was copied from Konqueror.
I loved using Konqueror back when I used Kubuntu. It has a lot of great features that I wish were more commonly available.
One practical limitation is that it requires two hands to browse, so not great when eating, writing in a notebook, holding a drink, etc. Also if you float your hands above the keyboard instead of using a wrist rest, it's not very practical for extended casual browsing. In that scenario I find having a nice ergonomic mouse hard to beat.