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

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Post by bharathyes »

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 is. i am one of those who have atleast 100 tab on any workday, more on my personal system. i also use bookmark service like raindrop that have tagging, etc than simple folders.

Main reason for keeping tags are they are a constant reminder of topics to look into. Kinda like postits on your monitor. If I put them away using bookmarks I often forget about them and neder get to them. I have folders with hundreds of links I wanted to look a year back and still haven't.

I do clean out tabs occasionally when I am done with a topic but I mostly only bookmark when having to shutdown the system.

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

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Post by int3 »

Vimium was my introduction to software engineering :) I contributed a bunch of code to it back in 2011-2012. Glad to see it still being in use!

I'm quite proud of the little test I wrote to figure out which DOM APIs could be used to detect the visibility of different kinds of elements, in order that we could display link hints correctly: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/test_harnesses/v...

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

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Post by NERD_ALERT »

sodapopcan wrote: post #74
NERD_ALERT wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand what’s so complicated about this. I’ve also never allowed myself to have more than 5-6 tabs at a time because it just seemed reasonable. I’m not sure what I could possibly be doing that requires more tabs. I have an organized bookmark folder structure for things I absolutely need to get back to/visit regularly. I’m using my browser for no more than a couple streams of thought at any given time.

That's a pretty aggressive and unhelpful response. While your brain might be tuned to perfect tab management, I've worked with very talented people who hang on to tons of tabs (amongst other idiosyncrasies). Some want to change (I deign to consider myself one of these people), others don't and still go on to be productive, awesome developers. You seem to have mastered pure focus which is an amazing, coveted trait, bu…

I'm not trying to come off as aggressive. It's that I don't understand what more than 15 tabs could realistically be used for. I don't think I could find a use for more than 15 tabs if I tried at any given time. At work as an engineer I usually have a tab with Bitbucket, at most 3-4 tabs for pages/documentation I'm reading, a tab with Jira. Maybe I have a tab or two on Youtube to put something on in the background. So as I'm reading comments about people claiming to have > 1000 tabs, I can't comprehend what's going on in that situation. The only way that could happen is if I simply never closed tabs when I was done with the task I was looking at it for. It would never make sense to not close it if I don't need it because after 15+ tabs being open it becomes too hard for me to find anything because the tabs are so small. I'm incentivized to close tabs when I don't need the information anymore because the browser becomes unusable quickly. I know how to get back to just about anything I was looking at and if it's important enough that I'm revisiting it often it gets bookmarked.

It's less aggression and more disbelief/shock because I don't understand how it would be possible to use a browser with more than 15 tabs open.

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

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Post by level87 »

nrabulinski wrote: post #82

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.

I've tried qutebrowser, but always get frustrated with the lack of plugins like adblock.

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

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

devsda wrote: post #24

The home page doesnt make it obvious but there's a port for Firefox too. It does not compare directly with the old vimperator addon but it works great for regular browser navigation. The only occasional glitch I saw was in UI for adding site exceptions.

Tridactyl is the best Vim-control-plugin for Firefox, hands down.

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

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Post by submeta »

rsapkf wrote: post #89

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!

Been using Vimium for years, and just learned about searching paths in bookmarks via `/` (hitting `b` or `B`, then `/`). - Thank you very much for sharing.

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

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Post by philc »

int3 wrote: post #92

Vimium was my introduction to software engineering :) I contributed a bunch of code to it back in 2011-2012. Glad to see it still being in use! I'm quite proud of the little test I wrote to figure out which DOM APIs could be used to detect the visibility of different kinds of elements, in order that we could display link hints correctly: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/test_harnesses/v...

You crushed it Jez! I wish we could work on more projects together.

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

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Post by herewulf »

chii wrote: post #87
epigramx wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 relat…

I'm a "tab hoarder" and you've hit the nail right on the head.

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

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Post by rochak »

nrabulinski wrote: post #82

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.

I don’t think any of those browsers have the rich extensions I need. For this sole reason, they are out of the competition.
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