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I use vimium (or was it vimium C?) on a chromium browser. My biggest bugbear with vimium is that it doesn't work in the browser's native pdf viewer. PDF viewer
by CornCobs 5y ago
I use vimium (or was it vimium C?) on a chromium browser. My biggest bugbear with vimium is that it doesn't work in the browser's native pdf viewer. PDF viewer for vimium C exists but its definitely not as good as the native viewer (better rendering, allows annotating and saving etc).
My browsing consists mostly of pdfs so it makes the whole vimium experience pretty moot.
Also many modern websites have weird scrollbars, or the scrolling content is not the actual body but some div inside the page, and vimium doesn't seem to handle that well
- dotancohen 5y agoNot a solution to your problem, but tangential. Have you tried Okular? I used to hate working with PDFs before I discovered Okular. It is the KDE PDF reader.
- CornCobs 5y agoWill give it a look, thanks! But my guess is I will still stick with the browser inbuilt pdf viewer because most pdfs I view are accessed via url and are not downloaded. It would be too large a context switch to have 2 separate pdf viewers
- vxNsr 5y ago> My browsing consists mostly of pdfs so it makes the whole vimium experience pretty moot. This is so strange, what are you doing that is mostly in pdfs?
- ShamelessC 5y agoSo many things. Academia lives in pdf-land as do many governments.
- CornCobs 5y agoAs the other person said, universities publish majority of their notes as pdfs, very little academic material exists in html. Also papers are still entirely accessed as pdfs through e-libraries
- vxNsr 5y agogot it, makes sense. For this usecase, it almost makes sense to use IE because they still have the adobe acrobat plugin which imo is the gold standard of pdf reader, annotating.