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Finally found Link Hints, which does only the link opening part, but better (IMO), and with normal keyboard shortcuts. Now I'm constantly using it.
I used to be a loving VimFX [0] user. It had intelligent link hints (essentially, links it thinks you are likely to want, e.g. because they're big, get single-key shortcuts). The scrolling was actually native, as in equivalent to hitting the arrow keys. I don't think any of the other Vim emulator plugins ever replicated that. Vimium doesn't, Tridactyl doesn't, and Vim Vixen was horribly broken. Apparently VimFX still…
IMO the scrolling in Tridactyl is better than native as it can work even when the page has put focus somewhere daft (like a pop-up).
The "f" mode in Vimium is just wonderful. I wish that I could have a system-wide keyboard just like that. I seem to remember in Windows 7, there was some sort of voice assistant, that could similarly put a label on every visible clickable element. That was for voice command, but would be great for keyboard navigation, too.
I used this everyday for the past 3 years. can't imagine browsing without it
For those using firefox there is tridactyl available as others have commented as well. They've gone a step further introducing native messaging [1][2] which opens up an endless ways of interacting with the underlying OS which makes implementing all sorts of useful day-to-day functionality such as personal automation a joyful breeze. For example, saving the current page in a local file can be as easy as: tri.excmds.ex…
Otherwise a malicious website targeting Tridactyl users who use the native messenger could gain shell access when you triggered your command on them.
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That used to be my solution for managing tabs in chrome. Every few months it would just crash, I'd lose all my tab, and I'd think "probably for the best". Now chrome is a lot more stable :/.
This causes me some level of anxiety. An important end of day ritual for me is to close every tab I'm not 100% sure I will need the next morning.
Same with vim-keys in any text input field.
There's also a free, open source vim style browser called Qutebrowser which you can control like Vim if that's your thing. It works well, also with complicated web sites. https://qutebrowser.org/
Maybe I'll switch away some time in the future, but for now the flawless vim-UX, its customizability and my many scripts and custom bindings I've written for it keep my locked in the qutebrowser garden, haha!