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I have once went upto 1674 in Firefox.
Is there a count somewhere?
In Firefox: about:telemetry#scalars-tab_search=tab
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
#132I settled with Surfingkeys after I tried Vimium, Vimium C, Pentadactyl and Vimperator.
Here's my Surfingkeys configuration as an ex-Vimium user:
api.map('F', 'gf');
api.Hints.setCharacters("asdgqwertzxcvb");
Hope this helps someone looking for a better option migrating from Vimium.
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I thought Suspender had been taken down due to some change upstream that introduced trackers or something else shady. Great to see it got forked. I’ve been using Auto Tab Discard but it doesn’t feel as effective on diminishing RAM usage. Has that been your experience as well?
That was The Great Suspender. Marvellous is a fork that seems to work just like the original. I actually have trouble with it with more than ~2000 (3000?) tabs. It gets unstable and slow. Auto Tab Discard doesn't have that problem, but does occasionally disappear and stop suspending tabs until you reload it.
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#134I used to use Vim-style key bindings in the browser in that past but haven’t for a while.
Back then the browser extensions for Vim key bindings kept breaking now and then, and that’s a big part of the reason why I stopped using these extensions. Probably the situation is a lot more stable today.
Another part of the reason that I stopped using these plugins I think is also because I do a lot of my browsing these days on my phone. And aside from that even when I am on the computer, I don’t really miss the feature in my browser. Maybe also because I use a laptop most of the time, and the trackpad of the Apple laptops are nice to use.
Anyway, I still use Vim key bindings where it matters the most to me and that is in my editor where I write code and other text.
One thing that I came to think of that maybe someone can answer. What happens if you try to run one of those Vim-in-the-browser sites, while at the same time you have Vim-style keyboard controls for the browser itself? For example this one: https://www.vimonlineeditor.com/
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#135I'm not seeing a ":" command bar in any demos, is there one? I use Qutebrowser and it's fantastic, I even wrote some userscripts for it which are probably easier to build than web extensions.
IIRC Vimium was the one that was pure hotkeys, no commands. Waaay back when Vimperator died with Firefox Quantum, I tried a bunch of different addons that still worked and Vimium was probably the least powerful of them. Currently I use Vim Vixen[0]. It's still nowhere near as feature-full as Vimperator was, but nothing can be nowadays. My only real complaint about it is how link hints don't let you complete with the…
Tridactyl does let filter links like that with `:set hintfiltermode vimperator` and `:set hintchars 1234567890`.
Vim Vixen unfortunately has been unmaintained since May [1]. If anyone knows ueokande personally, could they let him know that I would be happy to help get some releases out? I sent an email yesterday but I am not optimistic as it seems like quite a few people have tried over the last few months.
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#136I used Vimium for a while, mainly for the feature of opening links with the keyboard. But I never stuck with it, forgot to use it, because I really don't like the mode-switching and having it default to taking over keyboard input. 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. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…
I use Key Jump. It's even simpler. Just hit , or . depending on if you want to open in the same or a new tab.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/key-jump-keyb...
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#137(I'm one of the authors) Love seeing this on HN today! It seems to get some front page attention every couple of years. Thank you everyone for the encouragement! Related: last week I published a very similar extension, but for Google Sheets. https://github.com/philc/sheetkeys
This is cool!
Do you have any plans for a Google Docs extension as well? Or do you mostly get by with Vimium there?
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#138I 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?
As someone guilty of same (I've got just over half that many tabs open now: 273), I might be able to explain.
Links rot. If I see something on the interwebs that I want to store or remember, I usually copy the pertinent information somewhere else. Be that Anki, or org-mode, or somewhere else. I leave the tab open until I get the free time to go back and copy the information somewhere.
Looking at my open-longest tabs, it seems I've got some Magento documentation open from last summer. I should go clean that up. )) If these were bookmarks, I would absolutely _never_ get around to filing the information away in a useful place.
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#139One 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!
pressing 'o' will achieve the same thing but also allow you to search the internet as if using a google search (or your default search engine)
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#140Earlier 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".
Honestly, I don't know how you all stay so low, I'm down to 1172, and getting it even that low feels like a bit of an accomplishment.
How do you find a specific tab out of those 1172 though? I assume some might be quite old and any tab-finder isn't going to search inside the tab itself?