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If you're looking for just some great keybindings, and the ability to choose links on a page with your keyboard, I suggest checking out Vimium for Chrome. It ch

by elwell 12y ago

If you're looking for just some great keybindings, and the ability to choose links on a page with your keyboard, I suggest checking out Vimium for Chrome. It changed my life.

therealdrag0 12y ago
Thanks! I have a friend that raves about Vimperator for FireFox. But I use Chrome and hadn't got to looking for an analog yet. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator
- e12e 12y ago
  Please note that gp is correct in that "if you're only looking for..." -- in my opinion it doesn't hold a candle to vimperator. Partly because of extension interaction differs between firefox and chrome, and partly... well the "flavour" just feels different. Vimperator's hinting-mode (press 'f' and start typing text in link to follow a link, and/or type the number -- and while initially all links are enumerated, when you type a few letters, only matching links remain highlighted) -- feels really odd at first, but then just feels great.
  - therealdrag0 12y ago
    My buddy has used both and he said the same thing. But I'm not ready to switch back to FF :/
    - e12e 12y ago
      Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium? I generally use FF for most everything, and reserve chromium for those few poorly designed sites that fights hard against noscript/adblock - like facebook after their move away from input-fields and to js/ajax input (They use it for stuff like changing (part of) a friends name into a mention, etc). And for youtube (mostly because the horrible ui is useless without a mouse anyway, and lets me keep youtube in a window while I browse in FF). [ed: and occasionally for web dev/debug -- not so much because ff web dev tools aren't good -- mostly because they interact somewhat poorly with vimperator]
      - rylee 12y ago
        Pentadactyl is just disabled on the web tools, for what it's worth.
      - rmetzler 12y ago
        > Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium? For me the reason is the omnibar (short prefixes for search engines, eg. w for wikipedia, ddg for duckduckgo), the developer tools and vimium (ok, I just learned there are similar plungins for firefox), why I use chrome/chromium.
        e12e 12y ago
        Fwiw vimperator works with search shortcuts on firefox, so you can: :o g google search term :o w wikipedia search term Etc. 'o' is 'open' and you get the typical url bar search.
        omaranto 12y ago
        Firefox has let you assign keywords to search engines for a long time, I think possibly before Chrome even existed. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
      - therealdrag0 12y ago
        As someone else has said, the ombibar is one of the main things. But what originally attracted me to it is the slim profile. (As an example of how much I care about this, I run windows in 'classic' theme mode, because it's the slimmest.) Firefox has a bigger header and has two search bars and I have to disable the menus to slim it down but then if I want access to them I have to re-enable them which is a pain.
        e12e 12y ago
        Funny with vimperator and either :set gui=none or none,tabs the opposite is true. I run xmonad, so hardly any frames/decorations etc.
  - edoloughlin 12y ago
    I've been using vimperator for wow a while now.it's a real shame it can't hide the address bar any more. It just sits there stealing real estate.
    - icebraining 12y ago
      http://superuser.com/questions/747898/how-to-hide-navigation-toolbar-in-firefox-29 http://superuser.com/questions/747898/how-to-hide-navigation...
    - e12e 12y ago
      :set gui=none,tabs [ed: that works for me, anyway] [ed2: Just realized that I'm running Debian Jessie (testing) on this box, and was running "stock" iceweasel. But upgrading to Aurora (38) the address bar stays hidden (but there appear to be some other glitches -- that might be because of a mish-mash of libraries between mostly stock Jessie and just pulling in Aurora from mozilla.debian.net] [ed3: definitely some gui glitches, so I don't recommend trying Aurora with vimperator right now - but looks like the address bar shouldn't be a problem either way.] [ed4: with vimperator nightlies, things seem to work as they should with iceweasel/firefox aurora]
  - dredmorbius 12y ago
    Vimperator's one of those extensions I tried out on a lark ... and after a couple of hours of awkwardness, discovered was absolutely fantastic.

by elwell 12y ago

If you're looking for just some great keybindings, and the ability to choose links on a page with your keyboard, I suggest checking out Vimium for Chrome. It changed my life.

therealdrag0 12y ago

Thanks! I have a friend that raves about Vimperator for FireFox. But I use Chrome and hadn't got to looking for an analog yet. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator

e12e 12y ago
Please note that gp is correct in that "if you're only looking for..." -- in my opinion it doesn't hold a candle to vimperator. Partly because of extension interaction differs between firefox and chrome, and partly... well the "flavour" just feels different. Vimperator's hinting-mode (press 'f' and start typing text in link to follow a link, and/or type the number -- and while initially all links are enumerated, when you type a few letters, only matching links remain highlighted) -- feels really odd at first, but then just feels great.
- therealdrag0 12y ago
  My buddy has used both and he said the same thing. But I'm not ready to switch back to FF :/
  - e12e 12y ago
    Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium? I generally use FF for most everything, and reserve chromium for those few poorly designed sites that fights hard against noscript/adblock - like facebook after their move away from input-fields and to js/ajax input (They use it for stuff like changing (part of) a friends name into a mention, etc). And for youtube (mostly because the horrible ui is useless without a mouse anyway, and lets me keep youtube in a window while I browse in FF). [ed: and occasionally for web dev/debug -- not so much because ff web dev tools aren't good -- mostly because they interact somewhat poorly with vimperator]
    - rylee 12y ago
      Pentadactyl is just disabled on the web tools, for what it's worth.
    - rmetzler 12y ago
      > Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium? For me the reason is the omnibar (short prefixes for search engines, eg. w for wikipedia, ddg for duckduckgo), the developer tools and vimium (ok, I just learned there are similar plungins for firefox), why I use chrome/chromium.
      - e12e 12y ago
        Fwiw vimperator works with search shortcuts on firefox, so you can: :o g google search term :o w wikipedia search term Etc. 'o' is 'open' and you get the typical url bar search.
      - omaranto 12y ago
        Firefox has let you assign keywords to search engines for a long time, I think possibly before Chrome even existed. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
    - therealdrag0 12y ago
      As someone else has said, the ombibar is one of the main things. But what originally attracted me to it is the slim profile. (As an example of how much I care about this, I run windows in 'classic' theme mode, because it's the slimmest.) Firefox has a bigger header and has two search bars and I have to disable the menus to slim it down but then if I want access to them I have to re-enable them which is a pain.
      - e12e 12y ago
        Funny with vimperator and either :set gui=none or none,tabs the opposite is true. I run xmonad, so hardly any frames/decorations etc.
- edoloughlin 12y ago
  I've been using vimperator for wow a while now.it's a real shame it can't hide the address bar any more. It just sits there stealing real estate.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    http://superuser.com/questions/747898/how-to-hide-navigation-toolbar-in-firefox-29 http://superuser.com/questions/747898/how-to-hide-navigation...
  - e12e 12y ago
    :set gui=none,tabs [ed: that works for me, anyway] [ed2: Just realized that I'm running Debian Jessie (testing) on this box, and was running "stock" iceweasel. But upgrading to Aurora (38) the address bar stays hidden (but there appear to be some other glitches -- that might be because of a mish-mash of libraries between mostly stock Jessie and just pulling in Aurora from mozilla.debian.net] [ed3: definitely some gui glitches, so I don't recommend trying Aurora with vimperator right now - but looks like the address bar shouldn't be a problem either way.] [ed4: with vimperator nightlies, things seem to work as they should with iceweasel/firefox aurora]
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  Vimperator's one of those extensions I tried out on a lark ... and after a couple of hours of awkwardness, discovered was absolutely fantastic.