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Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

#22
If you like vimium, or the idea of it, consider giving qutebrowser a spin. Chrome hampers extensions in a variety of ways (e.g., not being able to use vimium bindings on any "internal" pages), and a fully fledged browser makes the experience much more cohesive.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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I'm sorry but this is near unusable since the death of XUL and introduction of WebExtensions. I was a truly avid user of VimFX which did the same thing. Vimium these days does not work when a page hasn't finished loading and it doesn't work on blank pages (about:blank) or any other "system page" (like the preferences or addons). The "o" key can no longer highlight the address bar but brings up a non-native address ba…

Completely agree but it's the best we got at the moment if you want to use the non-XUL version of Firefox.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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post #22

If you like vimium, or the idea of it, consider giving qutebrowser a spin. Chrome hampers extensions in a variety of ways (e.g., not being able to use vimium bindings on any "internal" pages), and a fully fledged browser makes the experience much more cohesive.

You can extend Qutebrowser with userscripts [1].

For the Lisp fans, Nyxt [2] is a decent choice as well.

[1] https://qutebrowser.org/doc/userscripts.html

[2] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

#25
The first commit dates back to September 2009. That's fifteen years ago. Wow. Made me check when Chrome was first released. September 2008, as it turned out. So this extension was started just one year into Chrome's existence.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

#26

For Firefox, I'm using Tridactyl[1] and am very happy with it, hint mode is an absolute god send. [1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

I'm still a little sad Vimperator – the precursor to all of these – does not work in modern browsers because it was so good but Tridactyl is certainly as close as one is allowed to get with WebExtensions.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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I've tried most firefox vim addons, and Vimium is the one that I ended up using.

The only configuration: I disabled it on banking sites... you never know.

To disable it, just press its icon on any website, and it will stay disabled on all the domain.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

#30

For Firefox, I'm using Tridactyl[1] and am very happy with it, hint mode is an absolute god send. [1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

I had a lot of problems with that. The "disable on some domains" functionality was broken for years. Probably they fixed it by now. Vimium worked and works better.
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