Turn your Firefox and Google Chrome into the Vim editor
The hacker broweser.
Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. Watch this video to get a feel for how it works:
Features
- Helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse.
- Uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Has an in-page help dialog to remind you of your personalized shortcuts.
Instalation
Add the add-on with Firefox: + Add to Firefox
Or Google Chrome:
Some keyboard shortcuts
To know the commands just press: ?
. A combo with all the shortcut keys for navigation will open, let’s see the main features:
?
- as we have already seen, a HELP for the commands;o
- opens a box to type the URL and open it on the same page that isO
- (shift + o
) - opens a box to type the URL and opens in a new tabj
- moves down;k
- moves upwards;gg
- goes to the top of the page, already disables that javascript that makes the scroll (to the top);G
- go to the bottom of the page;
d
- make pagination (similar toless
via command line) the page;u
- also makes pagination only upwards;h
- andl
move to the left and right sides, respectively, if a page has this option;i
- insertion mode, check the field in the lower left field.v
visual mode. ESC exits modes.T
- opens a combo to navigate through the open tabs/
- also like Vim, opens the search bar andn
matches new (next) terms according to the researcher,N
also, only previous ones.H
- returns one to the available page in the history andL
to the front.x
- closes a tab andX
restores an open tab.F
- Marks and displays fields you want to click and open,F
opens in a new tab.
Watch the video
Among several other options that can be consulted with ?
help. If you want to disable only to go in Firefox extensions and disable and or remove.
I hope you enjoyed this quick tip and until next time …
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