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Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by ambarp2 »

mkl wrote: post #51
sodapopcan wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy shit... 500 tabs? I thought I was bad about accumulating tabs but had no idea ~500 was even possible. I'm trying to even but I literally can't--You might say "I literally can't even".

I have 7-8000 on one machine, multiple thousands on at least two others. Session Buddy + either Auto Tab Discard or The Marvellous Suspender means I don't lose any even in crashes and it doesn't use too much RAM.

Also my exact setup! Have hundreds of tabs and in between Session Buddy and The Marvellous Suspender, I haven’t lost one yet.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by nrabulinski »

Every time this comes up I wonder why no one mentions qute and nyxt browsers which natively support those bindings and have much more minimal UI. I used to be a vimium user at first, then tridactyl but both fell short and felt hacky and for roughly a year now I’ve been using qutebrowser which is miles better.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by laserlight »

gandalfgeek wrote: post #14
keyle wrote: post #9

For those looking to replace the mouse at the OS level on macOS (similar vibe), Scoot is pretty good for that... https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot

On MacOS I've been using homerow.app which does the same thing as Scoot but looks a bit more polished.

Clickable: https://www.homerow.app

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by qolop »

cepp wrote: post #70
qolop wrote: post #66

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It's not possible to detect the presence of Vimium. https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/2399

I distinctly remember when I first got on-boarded to Superhuman their app detected Vimium running and asked me to disable it for their site.

How long ago was this? There used to be a way to do this for earlier versions of Vimium but that doesn't work anymore. Very interested in knowing if it's still possible. Will check out superhuman.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by meatjuice »

keyle wrote: post #9

For those looking to replace the mouse at the OS level on macOS (similar vibe), Scoot is pretty good for that... https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot

This is the very thing I’ve been looking for since vimac became proprietary (homerow). I was using Shortcat, which is also a proprietary software and I was having a little bit of concern mainly about security, but this software seems to solve the problem. Thank you for sharing.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by chii »

epigramx wrote: post #79
sva_ wrote: post #40

I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.

is this some kind of modern-day hoarding? how would you even find that useful? why don't you use bookmarks for the earliest ones?

It's interesting, because i've asked many people who have massive tab counts this same question, and it seems the overwhelming answer is that bookmarks are harder to manage than tabs.

It takes more time to bookmark a link, than it is to open it in a new tab. The positioning of the tab is an indication of approx. when that tab had been opened, and the other tabs near it is likely similar in subject matter, or is related somehow.

It acts as a queue to be processed as well.

And for a lot of browsers, the auto-preloading means you can have the tab "saved" and you can view it, even if it took long time to load. It's a form of "offline" viewing.

If bookmarks can achieve _all_ of the above, without having the need for the user to do anything extra, it would actually replace tabs. But so far, i've not seen anyone switch.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by rsapkf »

One Vimium feature that I use a lot is the "Vomnibar". As a heavy bookmarks user, it lets me easily search for any existing duplicates before bookmarking a page by just pressing 'b'. If I start the search with "/", it will show the full path to the bookmark folder too!

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by sawyna »

lelandbatey wrote: post #78
sodapopcan wrote: post #64

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This is intriguing. Do you happen to have a blog post or similar documentation about your process?

I'm not who asked, but I can explain my own and other's perspective: don't passively accumulate detritus. If you want to remember something , you must write it down or take a note, just like if you were in school. Don't just "throw another tab on the pile". That's like a .txt file full of links you're just pasting and pasting into. Are you really ever going to go and review those links? Folks who successfully have hu…

This. I used to be one of those who opens a tab to read and address this queue later on. I realized it's not efficient (at least for me) because things keep adding up and I sometimes have weeks/months old tabs that I never got to. So I started using a simple task management stuff and it's made an amazing difference for me. Granted that it might be a bit more work, but overall I feel more productive and organized.
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