Vim-like Browser Extensions

Users recommend and compare browser extensions like Vimium, Tridactyl, Vimperator, and VimFx for Chrome and Firefox that enable Vim-style keyboard navigation for efficient, mouse-free browsing.

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SEJeff Mar 12, 2021 View on HN

If you're a firefox user, check this out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...

kele Apr 26, 2017 View on HN

What's wrong with existing browser extensions like Vimperator or Vimium?

anshumankmr Nov 20, 2020 View on HN

Check out Vimium, if you are a fan of Vim and like using keyboard extensions to make your browsing experience faster.

jokermatt999 Mar 9, 2011 View on HN

You may want to check out Vimium if you haven't already.

objectified Oct 14, 2014 View on HN

I use VimFx in Firefox as an alternative to Chrome's Vimium, it works quite well for me.

walkon Dec 29, 2009 View on HN

You should try the Vimperator extension. It trades almost the entire UI/chrome for modal, vim-style, keyboard browsing.

orbital-decay Dec 3, 2019 View on HN

For everyone who likes vimium, give surfingkeys a try:https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys (available for both Firefox and Chrome).The defaults are a bit different, but it's quite similar, and much more powerful. Almost like vimperator/pentadactyl were, before WebExtensions.

_qua Mar 1, 2024 View on HN

Vimium or whatever it is called for Firefox lets you use Vim commands to navigate the browser.

jonnii Dec 30, 2011 View on HN

There's a chrome extension called Vimium which does the same thing.

yungtriggz Feb 26, 2024 View on HN

I love the 'vim for this' trend. does vimium just take care of that for everything?