Look ma, no mouse: Vimium • Hacker News Board

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#91

Post by lillesvin » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 7:42 AM UTC

unicornporn wrote: post #75

Too sad the switch to WebExtensions in Firefox totally screwed up these addons. 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 someti…

I was super happy that the old XUL extensions could hide UI elements. I used Vimperator and hid everything but the Vimperator status line, and it was awesome. Noticeably more screen real estate and less clutter.

For those looking for that more complete Vim experience, qutebrowser (https://qutebrowser.org/) is a good option, IMO.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Post by bewo001 » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC

We've come full circle.

The first time I accessed the web it was with telnet info.cern.ch which was line mode browser that worked like this plugin, a key per link.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#93

Post by wyclif » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 8:53 AM UTC

preommr wrote: post #6

I absolutely love vimium. Such a great tool. [Vimium + i3 + vim + vscode/vmplugin] Means that I rarely have to reach for the mouse, have a tonne of desktop real estate that's easy to navigate and is way more comfortable. Just having search, simple navigation and the 'f-feature' in vimium is enough for like 99% of my use cases. It's such a pleasant and seamless experience to code in the editor, hop on over to the term…

How does Vimium compare to Tridactyl which is Firefox only?

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#94

Post by cassepipe » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:18 AM UTC

ractive wrote: post #79

Without a plugin on firefox: hit ' to open a search field that only searches for links, then start typing and hit enter when the correct link is highlighted.

Thanks!

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#95

Post by cassepipe » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:25 AM UTC

I love the Vimium extension on Firefox. My main frustration comes from the Omnibar. It works well but I would just prefer to use the native bar. I know the Vimium devs can't do anything about it, it's in Firefox's hands but still frustrating though.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#96

Post by midgetjones » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:33 AM UTC

unicornporn wrote: post #75

Too sad the switch to WebExtensions in Firefox totally screwed up these addons. 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 someti…

I've been using Vim Vixen[0] since the WebExtension switch, and I haven't noticed any missing features. I'd be curious to see how you found it in comparison.

[0] https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#97

Post by Vinnl » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

midgetjones wrote: post #96

unicornporn wrote: post #75

Too sad the switch to WebExtensions in Firefox totally screwed up these addons. 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 someti…

I've been using Vim Vixen[0] since the WebExtension switch, and I haven't noticed any missing features. I'd be curious to see how you found it in comparison. [0] https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen

I use that too, but the specific points they mentioned (keyboard shortcuts while loading, focus the address bar when pressing `o`) do not work there either, and they cannot work with the WebExtension API.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#98

Post by bojanvidanovic » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:57 AM UTC

The first addon I install on any computer.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#99

Post by GekkePrutser » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 10:16 AM UTC

octoberfranklin wrote: post #56

Unusable because the vi-mode keybindings aren't available until the page finishes loading. Qutebrowser is far superior. Mozilla STILL refuse to produce a "libfirefox" like Chromium does with the CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). This is incredibly selfish of Mozilla, they insist on being the only ones who can produce a browser using their browser engine, forcing Tor Browser to devote massive resources to maintaining…

I can see where they're coming from though. You wouldn't want someone doing an 'edge chromium'.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

#100

Post by solatic » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

I eventually switched away from these extensions because of conflicts with webapps that have their own keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts that webapps give you are much more expressive and usable (i.e. in Gmail), but they're never quite able to save you completely from needing a mouse. So you keep switching between vim mode to app shortcuts and back and it's not clear enough which mode you're in.

Really makes me wish that it was easier for developers to choose native desktop development instead of webapp development. Web browsers are compromises all the way down.