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You can search for text easily with chrome or firefox. With firefox, you can hit the quote key and search the links, pressing enter to navigate to the page. F3

You can search for text easily with chrome or firefox. With firefox, you can hit the quote key and search the links, pressing enter to navigate to the page. F3 goes to the next result. The same feature is not available in Chrome natively, for some obstinate reason. It kept me from switching to Chrome, but then I tried the type-ahead-find extension. It's a script so it won't be as fast as native, but it's so much better than nothing. Firefox also has the Vimperator plugin that gives vim-like nav for Firefox. Highly recommended if you like Vim.

rwl 16y ago
With firefox, you can hit the quote key and search the links, pressing enter to navigate to the page. F3 goes to the next result. Didn't know that. That's handy, thanks! Firefox also has the Vimperator plugin that gives vim-like nav for Firefox. Highly recommended if you like Vim. I'm aware of Vimperator, but have never tried it, as I am an Emacs guy and about as useless with vi as I am with wild animals. It might be worth a look, though, if it does everything I mentioned above. (Does it?)
- cmurphycode 16y ago
  You can use the visual mode for selecting text, then operate on it with the usual vim business. There are commands built in for a lot of actions, and if there is a right click option that the extension doesn't provide, you can always write a script to extend it. Vimperator is nicely extensible. I'm not sure if Vim scrolling with hjkl resolves the issue you saw with the arrow keys- I'm sure that's site dependent, and you'll have to try it yourself. Good luck!
- Benjo 16y ago
  Vimperator can definitely do all the things you listed though flash objects in a page can be an exception. Once the browser hands focus to the flash object, it's up to the flash object to have a shortcut to give it back. Some do, some don't. It does have a bypass mode for javascript heavy sites like gmail, with builtin shortcuts. Some sites present issues with link detection, but vimperator is highly highly customizable, so given enough effort you can make almost anything work. There is also a chrome plugin called vimium that has a smaller feature set. I also found this: http://conkeror.org/ http://conkeror.org/ But I have not tried it. It appears to be a customized version of firefox with emacs style shortcuts.
Hovertruck 16y ago
If you Ctrl+F to some link text in Chrome and hit escape, it focuses the link so that hitting enter will navigate to the page. Not quite the same, but I use it all the time.

rwl 16y ago

With firefox, you can hit the quote key and search the links, pressing enter to navigate to the page. F3 goes to the next result. Didn't know that. That's handy, thanks! Firefox also has the Vimperator plugin that gives vim-like nav for Firefox. Highly recommended if you like Vim. I'm aware of Vimperator, but have never tried it, as I am an Emacs guy and about as useless with vi as I am with wild animals. It might be worth a look, though, if it does everything I mentioned above. (Does it?)

cmurphycode 16y ago
You can use the visual mode for selecting text, then operate on it with the usual vim business. There are commands built in for a lot of actions, and if there is a right click option that the extension doesn't provide, you can always write a script to extend it. Vimperator is nicely extensible. I'm not sure if Vim scrolling with hjkl resolves the issue you saw with the arrow keys- I'm sure that's site dependent, and you'll have to try it yourself. Good luck!
Benjo 16y ago
Vimperator can definitely do all the things you listed though flash objects in a page can be an exception. Once the browser hands focus to the flash object, it's up to the flash object to have a shortcut to give it back. Some do, some don't. It does have a bypass mode for javascript heavy sites like gmail, with builtin shortcuts. Some sites present issues with link detection, but vimperator is highly highly customizable, so given enough effort you can make almost anything work. There is also a chrome plugin called vimium that has a smaller feature set. I also found this: http://conkeror.org/ http://conkeror.org/ But I have not tried it. It appears to be a customized version of firefox with emacs style shortcuts.

Hovertruck 16y ago

If you Ctrl+F to some link text in Chrome and hit escape, it focuses the link so that hitting enter will navigate to the page. Not quite the same, but I use it all the time.