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Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by _giorgio_ »

mikae1 wrote: post #11

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…

All addons are disabled on system pages.

I've never experienced your problems, Vimium works on any tab, indipendently from the others.

I don't understand your glitches, really.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by yashasolutions »

yasser_kaddoura wrote: post #24
hansvm wrote: 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/

nyxt would be awesome when it has a decent browser engine. For now you cannot use nyxt on most regular websites (youtube is broken most of the time), They are working on moving it to chromium engine if I understood correctly. But yeah when it will be ready, it's the browser I waiting for the most.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by Kevin-Xi »

I've been using it for years and am quite happy with it. I also write some bookmarklets and userscripts to go along with it. For example, I have a bookmarklet for my bookmark service called BM. When I want to save a webpage, I type 'b' (to open bookmarks) -> 'bm', and everything is ready.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by bramhaag »

mikae1 wrote: post #11

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…

Keep in mind that using LegacyFox is not a silver bullet. It will disable sandboxing and add-on signing, which will impact the security of your browser.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by weinzierl »

I wish there was a browser as secure as Chrome but hackable without restrictions.

I do not think this is a contradiction, at least not from a technical perspective. I am willing to take the responsibility for all actions and modifications I do to my own browser but I need it be secure against all influences out of my control. And I need it come with secure defaults. To be competitive it needs to come without awkward restrictions that e.g. an external sandbox would impose.[1]

I don't think projects like qutebrowser, LuaKit and the many others fit that definition. Not being mainstream means by definition not getting as much security scrutiny as the dominant browsers.

What we really need is a hackable mainstream browser for people that need protection from the bad guys but not from themselves.

[1] I personally would make the concession that supporting a reasonable subset of the web was fair game.

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by omeid2 »

weinzierl wrote: post #36

I wish there was a browser as secure as Chrome but hackable without restrictions. I do not think this is a contradiction, at least not from a technical perspective. I am willing to take the responsibility for all actions and modifications I do to my own browser but I need it be secure against all influences out of my control. And I need it come with secure defaults. To be competitive it needs to come without awkward…

https://firefox.com

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by speedgoose »

omeid2 wrote: post #37
weinzierl wrote: post #36

I wish there was a browser as secure as Chrome but hackable without restrictions. I do not think this is a contradiction, at least not from a technical perspective. I am willing to take the responsibility for all actions and modifications I do to my own browser but I need it be secure against all influences out of my control. And I need it come with secure defaults. To be competitive it needs to come without awkward…

https://firefox.com

Is it as secure as Google Chrome though?

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by mdiesel »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #14
rendaw wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just looked and qutebrowser is basically a webview right? I've played with webviews a little and it didn't feel much different than other injection-style scripting. What would make that better than the extension? FWIW I tried the vimium or vimperator before and found it clunkier than I expected, so I can believe qutebrowser is better.

It's a lot more than a webview in the sense that keyboard is a first-class citizen, everything is accessible via keyboard, the bindings are much more reliable and responsive, and many more features make it a predictable and stable experience. For example, qutebrowser supports a hinting mode where I press Enter to activate a link after selecting it with hints, which almost entirely eliminates accidentally clicking the…

To add to the list, in addition to the bookmarking system they have "quickmarks" which means to open this site I type "b hn" and that's it

Re: Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

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Post by kataklasm »

hansvm wrote: 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.

i used QB for years and loved it but eventually i couldn't stand not having uBlock Origin anymore.. shame there's not a good adblocker for QB
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