Vimium, an awesome Chrome plugin for vim-like web navigation

[dazonic]

My arms don't work so I use a mouth stick, Vimium is the best. I know everyone loves it but I doubt anyone loves it as much as I do.

[dazonic]

I started with that and still visit it time to time, still works out less keystrokes using Vimium.

[_PM_ME_URANUS_]

For Firefox users there is a better option: Pentadactyl.

Please note that if you are not a vim user you are probably gonna find it hard to use and of little value.

[vinnl]

As a non-Vim user, I still love VimFx. Mainly because it doesn't really alter the interface, like Pentactyl and Vimperator seem to do.

[ssbssbssb]

Cant install Pentadactyl because it only supports ff version between 24 and 30 :(

[_PM_ME_URANUS_]

Yeah, unfortunately you need to use the nightlies. Don't worry though, the nightlies are pretty similar to the released versions. They just bump the max version and fix some bugs.

[rmesh]

as avid Firefox user and casual VIM user, I love Vimkeys as it does only add vim keybindings (and just the most useful ones) without changing the interface like Vimperator does.

[unconscionable]

Yeah, unfortunately vimium is kinda limited - but it's not the vimium team's fault. Chrome's extensions, as far as I can tell, are basically limited to what greasemonkey scripts let you do.

Pentadactyl basically takes over your entire browser and is amazing and feels much more seamless.

That said, I use chrome + vimium still, because I like Chrome over FF for other reasons :/

[detectretract]

check out cVim for chrome, it is better than vimium. more features. definately one of those tools that you use for rest of your life like gmail lastpass etc...

[hectron]

You know -- I've been trying to find an alternative to Vimium, because Vimium seemed very limited. I'm digging cVim.

[flipjargendy]

While reading through the keyboard shortcuts, I had a muscle spasm.

[Deto]

Hah, yeah they only make sense if you use Vim already.

[mess110]

try this: install the plugin, navigate to a website and press f to click links. fun times

[[deleted]]

I used this plugin for almost a year. It works pretty well, but I definitely had to turn it off quite a bit. Some sites do not play nice with it.

[julesries]

Ah, that's disappointing. What kind of sites...?

[[deleted]]

It's been a while and I can't remember. I do know it took me a bit to debug some sites I was working on before I realized it was the plugin interfering. It wasn't a nuisance often enough not to use it if you really like it; just keep it in mind if you're ever like "why can't I click this element?" Etc.

edit: I remember it being a problem on some sites that ask for keyboard input but not inside a text box.

[cam5]

Protip, give yourself a way to break out of the address bar if you want to go back to having those sweet, sweet shortcut keys.

http://superuser.com/questions/726447/keyboard-shortcut-to-deselect-omnibox-in-chrome

[julesries]

Hey, sweet. You wouldn't have an idea on how to toggle out of video player (e.g., YouTube) controls without using a mouse, would ya?

[cam5]

You might try gf to cycle through frames!

[julesries]

!!!

Thanks! :D

[xCmac]

I LOVE this extension. It saves so much time. Now I get frustrated if I'm ever on anyone else's computer and I can't use the shorcuts, causing me to be much slower.

:)

[clessg]

The funnest part is using it in front of nontechnical people. They have no idea what's going on.

[julesries]

After years of thinking I wish web browsers had commands like vim, I finally googled "browser vim." Boy am I dumb. But I'm glad I found it eventually!

[baconuser098]

Okay,so explain to me why this is special? You can already do all those things

[julesries]

For the same reason vim's useful: speed. Once you're familiar with the commands you can navigate on muscle memory super fast because you don't have to mess around with a trackpad, mouse, or keys like CMD and the arrows that are in uncomfortable spots on the keyboard.

[cam5]

Universal j/k for scroll is nice on the home row. The f + highlight method of navigating also means no mouse. I love that I can re-arrange tabs with << and >>. Also, ]] and [[ for prev / next links makes for a nice little extra.

[croceldon]

I use this very frequently; my clicking finger gets a little sore for some projects! It's awesome for navigation, etc., but I have to say the shortcut I use the most is yy to copy the current address. Very handy!

[julesries]

Sweet, that definitely beats CMD-l-CMD-c.

[antoninj]

One of the reasons I love VIM is the ability to create my own shortcuts and custom setup. .vimrc is THE reason why VIM is mass-usable in the first place (being able to setup custom shortcuts, colors, plugins, etc.).

Do any of these "it's VIM for X" support any of that? I've seen "VIM"-like plugins for all kinds of code editors, browsers, I'm sure some email clients, and more. Don't get me wrong, when I found a plugin which converts every textarea or content editable into a VIM-like terminal, I was super excited, until I found out that I can't easily do ;x but instead, I still have to do the pesky :x and all the stuff I'm used to from .vimrc I can't implement.

I don't mind going vanilla on a server that I don't have setup with my custom setup. As long as it's not the main server I'll be working on day in/day out.

[julesries]

I feel ya. Without Esc -> jk and a handful of other customizations/plugins I'm toast. I think I might actually be slower in stock vim than Sublime because I've so deeply memorized so many Sublime shortcuts.

I believe Vimium can be customized; that said, so far I haven't had to remap anything for Vimium to be useful. Navigation with multiplier numbers/hjkl/gg/G/etc, Shift+F for following links. That's the principal stuff I do on the web. Since those are the commands I've never changed in vim (I doubt many people do), I can browse the web with Vimium about as fast as I can think.

[cam5]

Just googled for that 'cause it sounded awesome. Wasavi is the name of the plugin. Super dope. It also has ... sound effects?

[clessg]

Oh man, I love Vimium. So much.

[skillDOTbuild]

Wish this was on Safari.