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

#141

I find Surfingkeys to be much superior to vimium. Works consistently in all sites. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surfingkeys/gfblio...

For the privacy-conscious interested in SK, it may be worth a read of this GH issue: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1796

I empathise with the author wanting to make a buck but it's hard to reconcile the approach he took with the level of trust granted to this extension.

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

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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 might have been a bit of a hyperbole.

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

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post #126

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/

I have been using qutebrowser for some time now and it's pretty nice if you can accept having a browser without UBlock Origin and other extensions ranging from nice-to-have to obligatory. The main advantage and the reason and I can't get myself to switch to Firefox is that it's vim-UX is just flawless. It works amazingly well and is just magnitudes better than any Firefox or Chrome extension that adds vim-UX on top s…

+1 my thoughts exactly. It would be so nice if Firefox allowed tridactyl full keyboard control. With qutebrowser, having a proper control mode and an insert mode that work everywhere makes it so much easier to navigate.

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

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I’ve been using Vimium for about a year now and really like it. I use it almost exclusively for fast keyboard-based scrolling, because I hate having to continuously rub my finger against a cold aluminium surface or spin a little plastic wheel to obliteration (maybe I’m weird). I know, arrow keys are a thing, but somehow I feel more at home with Vim keybindings.

Vimium has a lot of other great functions, but I don’t use them often enough to remember them, maybe I should.

However, I have to exclude it for a lot of webapps and websites where keybindings are used to trigger different events, which is sometimes annoying if you don’t know or forget about it.

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

#146
post #6

I also recommended vimium-c ( https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c ). It's like vimium on steroid: with a bunch of additional useful features.

Any specific things you do with vimium-c that are must have features to switch over?

I use caret mode, visual selection and P quite often to search for the text in visual selection in a new tab with the preferred search engine. I also like yf for yanking a link to clipboard.

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

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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

Is that really practical? In the video it looks not very useful to me as it does not seem to be very efficient. The mouse is so integrated into MacOS it looks hard to efficiently replace it. Are you or is anyone else actually using this regularly?

Also, I think the other mentioned alternatives look quite similar to that regard.

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

#148
I've been using Vimium for years and while I don't use every feature that it has I feel completely lost on a machine that doesn't have it installed. Just the ability to scroll pages without having to take my hands off the keyboard is worth it for me.

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

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post #126

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/

I have been using qutebrowser for some time now and it's pretty nice if you can accept having a browser without UBlock Origin and other extensions ranging from nice-to-have to obligatory. The main advantage and the reason and I can't get myself to switch to Firefox is that it's vim-UX is just flawless. It works amazingly well and is just magnitudes better than any Firefox or Chrome extension that adds vim-UX on top s…

Qutebrowser seem to have some built-in support for adblocking, have you used that? I'm curious how it works.

Tried it before, long long time ago, but found it to complex. But now after using Vimium for a while Qutebrowser actually seems very intuitive and not hard at all.

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

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post #140
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

One Feature of vimium is maybe T which pops open a box that searches title or url (though as you say I doubt it searches content).

I keep my tabs low and there's no way I'd find anything with that many tabs open but thought I'd call out the feature given the context of this discussion.

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