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I will badly miss vimperator. Yeah 56.0 works smoothly but without ability to use keyboard only that's hollow victory for me. Typing this in vim after viewing

I will badly miss vimperator. Yeah 56.0 works smoothly but without ability to use keyboard only that's hollow victory for me. Typing this in vim after viewing hackers news in w3m shows how desperate I am.

sametmax 9y ago
It's so niche i don't think they will bother.
Vinnl 9y ago
I'm not sure what features of Vimperator you're using, but if it's only about being able to navigate through your keyboard only, try Vimium-FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/?sr...
- binaryapparatus 9y ago
  I will take a look, thanks. I am using basic set of open, tabnew, follow, bmark. Proper follow hint is very important. Also the ability to redefine keys since I use colemak. I was briefly trying chrome and cVim did seem promising but I prefer firefox. Edit: I had to try it immediately and it looks very promising, thanks. Covers all the basic stuff I need.
  - kej 9y ago
    >Proper follow hint is very important. Depending on what you mean by this, be sure to check the advanced settings for vimium-ff. It will let you choose which characters to use for the hints, or there's a buried option to use the link text instead.
- always_good 9y ago
  There are all sorts of issues with Vimium. For instance, doesn't work on non-website pages, often have to cmd-w when x doesn't work completely defeating the extension to begin with. No d vs D to close prev/next tab, or p vs P. No temporary pass-thru, just whitelists. Anyone who thinks Vimium is anywhere nearly as polished as Vimperator probably never used the latter much. Though not sure if it's to do with API limits vs general lack of polish. But since Chrome never had a single solution as good as Pentadactyl/Vimperator, must be an API thing which means we're a bit screwed.
  - Vinnl 9y ago
    > Anyone who thinks Vimium is anywhere nearly as polished as Vimperator probably never used the latter much. That's why I suggested it - apparently OP didn't use it that extensively :) Note that even if Chrome didn't have an API, that doesn't mean Firefox will never get it. For example, Vimium had to reimplement its own address bar, but I believe they're working on API's that will let it manipulate Firefox's.
clouddrover 9y ago
There are various proposals for keyboard shortcut APIs to support extensions like Vimperator. Here's one: https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api It's too late for it (or something like it) to be in Firefox 57, but it seems likely a future Firefox will have this capability.
earenndil 9y ago
Try qutebrowser?

sametmax 9y ago

It's so niche i don't think they will bother.

Vinnl 9y ago

I'm not sure what features of Vimperator you're using, but if it's only about being able to navigate through your keyboard only, try Vimium-FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/?sr...

binaryapparatus 9y ago
I will take a look, thanks. I am using basic set of open, tabnew, follow, bmark. Proper follow hint is very important. Also the ability to redefine keys since I use colemak. I was briefly trying chrome and cVim did seem promising but I prefer firefox. Edit: I had to try it immediately and it looks very promising, thanks. Covers all the basic stuff I need.
- kej 9y ago
  >Proper follow hint is very important. Depending on what you mean by this, be sure to check the advanced settings for vimium-ff. It will let you choose which characters to use for the hints, or there's a buried option to use the link text instead.
always_good 9y ago
There are all sorts of issues with Vimium. For instance, doesn't work on non-website pages, often have to cmd-w when x doesn't work completely defeating the extension to begin with. No d vs D to close prev/next tab, or p vs P. No temporary pass-thru, just whitelists. Anyone who thinks Vimium is anywhere nearly as polished as Vimperator probably never used the latter much. Though not sure if it's to do with API limits vs general lack of polish. But since Chrome never had a single solution as good as Pentadactyl/Vimperator, must be an API thing which means we're a bit screwed.
- Vinnl 9y ago
  > Anyone who thinks Vimium is anywhere nearly as polished as Vimperator probably never used the latter much. That's why I suggested it - apparently OP didn't use it that extensively :) Note that even if Chrome didn't have an API, that doesn't mean Firefox will never get it. For example, Vimium had to reimplement its own address bar, but I believe they're working on API's that will let it manipulate Firefox's.

clouddrover 9y ago

There are various proposals for keyboard shortcut APIs to support extensions like Vimperator. Here's one: https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api It's too late for it (or something like it) to be in Firefox 57, but it seems likely a future Firefox will have this capability.

earenndil 9y ago

Try qutebrowser?