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Same here - I used qutebrowser exclusively for a couple months, but in the end I couldn't handle all the annoying popups and autoplaying videos in modern websit

Same here - I used qutebrowser exclusively for a couple months, but in the end I couldn't handle all the annoying popups and autoplaying videos in modern websites - all things that you can block with a single plugin in Firefox, together with ads. Too bad, because Vim plugins never allow full UI control in Firefox(e.g. closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins). Recently I switched from Vimium to Surfingkeys, which is comparable but also offers an actual Vim emulator for text field input. Can definitely recommend it.

konart 7y ago
>closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins Well, strictly speaking Tridactyl can do this. They overwrite your empty tab with their own so Tridactyl works there too and you can 'd' the tab.
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pgutfreund 7y ago
>closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins ctrl+w (is default browser shortcut)
- alpaca128 7y ago
  Oh well, I guess sometimes reading the manual is a good idea. Thanks for the tip.
ddevault 7y ago
I get around this with qutebrowser by whitelisting JavaScript.
- dijit 7y ago
  How do you do that on a per-domain basis? I suppose looking at javascript sources and whitelisting by domain isn't impossible with the UI tools available in Qute but I don't think anything like that currently exists (I've looked around a little). Still a real ad-blocker would be great, youtube is barely usable these days with three layers of unskippable ads on each video. (although you can work around that /specific/ problem with umpv and a hotkey to launch it: section10 https://qutebrowser.org/FAQ.html https://qutebrowser.org/FAQ.html )
  - ddevault 7y ago
    I use a little python glue in config.py: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/qutebrowser/config.py#L43-65 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/qut...
chipperyman573 7y ago
Try Vivaldi (chromium based browser with a LOT of settings). I had the same problem until I downloaded it, you can natively bind a key to close current tab, it will work on new tabs (and files)
- alpaca128 7y ago
  I have tried Vivaldi multiple times, the last time it still had noticeable input delay and slow performance...but support for Philips Hue lights. Not quite what I'm looking for. I've tried so many browsers and in the end I've always come back to Firefox.
  - chipperyman573 7y ago
    Well if you ever get the urge to try again, try disabling hardware acceleration. It fixed that problem for me.
maddyboo 7y ago
SurfingKeys is my top 5 most useful pieces of software. I’ve heavily customized it to make my web browsing as efficient as possible for my workflow. Check out my configuration to get some ideas of what you can do: https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf Note that while I currently use Firefox, I haven’t yet added instructions on how to install my config there, which is different to Chrome due to lack of file system access permissions. Long story short, use the `gulp serve` task to start a server on `localhost:9919`, then point the SurfingKeys configurator there.

konart 7y ago

>closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins Well, strictly speaking Tridactyl can do this. They overwrite your empty tab with their own so Tridactyl works there too and you can 'd' the tab.

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pgutfreund 7y ago

>closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins ctrl+w (is default browser shortcut)

alpaca128 7y ago
Oh well, I guess sometimes reading the manual is a good idea. Thanks for the tip.

ddevault 7y ago

I get around this with qutebrowser by whitelisting JavaScript.

dijit 7y ago
How do you do that on a per-domain basis? I suppose looking at javascript sources and whitelisting by domain isn't impossible with the UI tools available in Qute but I don't think anything like that currently exists (I've looked around a little). Still a real ad-blocker would be great, youtube is barely usable these days with three layers of unskippable ads on each video. (although you can work around that /specific/ problem with umpv and a hotkey to launch it: section10 https://qutebrowser.org/FAQ.html https://qutebrowser.org/FAQ.html )
- ddevault 7y ago
  I use a little python glue in config.py: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/qutebrowser/config.py#L43-65 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/qut...

chipperyman573 7y ago

Try Vivaldi (chromium based browser with a LOT of settings). I had the same problem until I downloaded it, you can natively bind a key to close current tab, it will work on new tabs (and files)

alpaca128 7y ago
I have tried Vivaldi multiple times, the last time it still had noticeable input delay and slow performance...but support for Philips Hue lights. Not quite what I'm looking for. I've tried so many browsers and in the end I've always come back to Firefox.
- chipperyman573 7y ago
  Well if you ever get the urge to try again, try disabling hardware acceleration. It fixed that problem for me.

maddyboo 7y ago

SurfingKeys is my top 5 most useful pieces of software. I’ve heavily customized it to make my web browsing as efficient as possible for my workflow. Check out my configuration to get some ideas of what you can do: https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf Note that while I currently use Firefox, I haven’t yet added instructions on how to install my config there, which is different to Chrome due to lack of file system access permissions. Long story short, use the `gulp serve` task to start a server on `localhost:9919`, then point the SurfingKeys configurator there.