Vimium - the hacker's browser

Vimperator for Firefox does the same. <a href="http://vimperator.org/vimperator" rel="nofollow">http://vimperator.org/vimperator</a><p>One hint: have an alternate browser for normal users to use when they borrow their laptop for a second. Because not having an address bar or any icons or tabs tends to confuse them :)

I've been using this for a little while and have been really liking it.<p>I wish there was an option to make it so you would have to manually switch to insert mode, I hate having it automatically switch and find myself doing the wrong thing - either typing and find myself jumping around, or trying to jump around and having it not do that.<p>I wish ctrl+f didn't pop up the chrome search box though and actually scroll down a full page...<p>I also wish the searching was more fully featured like vims, for example the * key to search for the word would be great, and being able to :set noignorecase would be nice.<p>I also have in my mental model of vim that ctrl-t is backwards in the tagstack, so I often hit ctrl-t to go backwards in history and accidentally open a tab. Until they allow remapping of keys, theres not much to do about that one.

Lightweight alternatives (to heavyweight Chrome and Firefox):<p>xxxterm; <a href="http://www.peereboom.us/xxxterm/html/" rel="nofollow">http://www.peereboom.us/xxxterm/html/</a><p>uzbl; <a href="http://uzbl.org/" rel="nofollow">http://uzbl.org/</a><p>surf; <a href="http://surf.suckless.org/" rel="nofollow">http://surf.suckless.org/</a><p>vimprobable2; <a href="http://www.vimprobable.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimprobable.org/</a>

Vimium brings me one step closer to never having to use a mouse. Hints mode and vim-style navigation keys are my favorite features. ? (shift-/) brings up a handy shortcut overlay. A must-have if you live in vim.

I've missed Vimperator <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891</a> since moving primarily to Chrome. It's so nice to not have to go back and forth to the mouse when coding and testing, and my brain doesn't have to shift gears as much.

The home-row hints are much better than the number hints that conkeror and vimperator give you. Although I did get really good at typing numbers, thanks to conkeror.

How long until emaxium (to keep the same pronunciation) comes out?

Author is either blissfully unaware of, or is not giving due credit to, Vimperator, which is incredible and was the first real Vim-enabling plugin AFAIK.<p>Great to see someone bringing this to another browser, though.

I'm using Vimium as a key tool in my efforts to become completely mouseless.<p><a href="http://luigimontanez.com/2010/mouseless-monday-1-vimium-google-chrome/" rel="nofollow">http://luigimontanez.com/2010/mouseless-monday-1-vimium-goog...</a>

Okay, I've made the jump. Now I feel the pain of those using audible or other non-mouse driven browsers when I stumble across a site (e.g. our very own Hacker News) that has multiple identical link texts that go to very different places.<p>It's slightly better in Vimium, with Vimperitor I try to type the unique number of comments on a story as a shortcut and end up following some random link.<p>Also, the default setting in Vimperitor to follow the link as soon as you type a key that uniquely identifies it crazy. It means you have to be paying attention to every link text on the page or else the remainder of your typing gets given to the next page as commands. You can :set fh=1 in order to force it to wait for enter.

Call me oblivious, but having never used emacs, vi or vim I love my GUI I'm sold. This is incredibly helpful since I use a USB keyboard with my laptop and frequently don't feel like reaching across my desk to get to the mouse.<p>Thank you!

The things I'm really feeling are missing are being able to open a new tab with a URL by only typing one key more than the URL itself. In Vimperator this is "t", but with all the chrome-based vim-ish plugins so far I have to open up a new tab, focus the location bar, then type what I want. Sometimes that covers the tab I was looking at so I can't reliably see the spelling of what I wanted to type. This one is huge for me, and is one of my most used commands after "d".

Opera also has it's vim bindings. Works quit OK, although not as good as vimperator. <a href="http://my.opera.com/Blazeix/blog/vimperator-for-opera" rel="nofollow">http://my.opera.com/Blazeix/blog/vimperator-for-opera</a> (Note: this is not an extension, just a set of bindings, still the behaviour is pretty close to vimperator)

What I really miss is the '?' shortcut in Firefox for searching on the page only in links. (There might be a different key combination for US keyboards)<p>If chrome would implement that, my life would improve at least 5%<p>it makes navigating though links very easy and much more intuitive than the link search that's demoed in the video.

Alright... I said I didn't like it, but with this, I'll give Chrome another try.

See also: Vrome. <a href="http://github.com/jinzhu/vrome" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/jinzhu/vrome</a><p>I'd love to switch completely but neither of these seem as polished as Vimperator.

Is there a way to hide the chrome address bar and toolbar?

Fwiw, you can have basic vim shortcuts binded to google search results:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/experimental/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/experimental/</a>

I like and I'm using it, now, but the extension or possibly the extension hooks have some shortcomings. For example, J and K move forward and backward between tabs, except that it fails on certain pages, like gmail (likely JavaScript interference), so you get stuck unless you use Chrome's built-in Ctrl-PageUp or Ctrl-PageDown commands which still work to switch between tabs.

Doesn't work with international keyboards...

Any way to start embedded youtube? f doesn't seem to include it.<p>Also ^fbud don't work for me (ubuntu), maybe not overridable?

Wow. This is awesome. The shortcuts don't work in GMail but that's expected.<p>EDIT: You can disable the plugin for GMail by going to Settings and entering mail.google.com in 'Excluded URLs' box.<p>BTW, has anyone figured out how to focus on a textbox area on the page? Also, what does the 'insert' mode do?

Just installed Chrome to try this. I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Safari already so the one thing that stands out as awesome in this is the keyboard link picker (i.e. f or F). Please tell me there's something similar out there for Safari.

Is there a way in chrome just to get textarea to shunt to external editor (in my case vim)? Firefox has something for this and it's simple and unobtrusive, but all the Chome solutions seem heavyweight. Any tips?

I'm loving it, but I have a silly question: Is it possible to close the help menu <i>without</i> mousing over to click the [x]? I can't seem to find a key-combo for this.

Thank you so much for posting this. It is amazing how you can spend years doing something and realize it doesn't make sense anymore :-)

Wow, this is amazing and I'm now using Chrome fulltime. Anything to not have to use the Dell mini 10v's trackpad with OS X. ;)

vimium.com is available.

How does this detect if there are already key-events set for a web-application such as gMail?

Does it interfere with Gmail's vi-inspired keyboard shortcuts?

The shortcuts don't seem to work in GMAIL

Awesome! Just switched away from Safari.

having been using Vimperator for a long time now. How is this comparing to Vimperator?

what's the shortcut to play the video on the page?

Breaks Google Wave

ctrl+u and ctrl+d seems quite inconvenient given that they're miles apart on the keyboard. two handed page-up scrolling? I guess you need to be a vim user for it to make sense. Presumably the page-up and page-down buttons work too.

Vim can be used to write things other than code, so the "hacker" thing is needless...I think that if vim were recognized as simply a powerful editor, not specialized for code, it could save many everyday people a lot of time.<p>I say that this is a vim user's browser.