Well, 1) it's a legitimate use-case and 2) certainly the amount of Vimperator / Pentadactyl / Vimium etc users are a much higher percentage of HN users than amo

Well, 1) it's a legitimate use-case and 2) certainly the amount of Vimperator / Pentadactyl / Vimium etc users are a much higher percentage of HN users than among the population at large. I used to be one of the users, but after the millionth time that an upgrade broke the extension I gave up on being able to use it. I don't think about it often but even though I am mostly over it I get a little sad thinking about it. But only a little. I've also stopped using tiling window managers. Most of my time is spent either reading in the browser, writing code or typing in the terminal. I have sufficiently few windows most of the time that alt + tab does the job just fine. I prefer tabbing between windows now because it gives me bigger windows and more flexibility. I think the scroll wheel is better for web browsing than hjkl. But my code I will still often edit with Vim, though I sometimes use an IDE also.