This non-disruptive introduction into Vimium made me think about my old Firefox setup. I assured them that they don't need to learn all of its commands, and they can open a cheat sheet on any page just by typing a question mark. My little demo covered the difference between F and Shift+F to show how it is case sensitive, and I navigated through multiple pages without using a mouse. I showed this once to a non-techie friend, and they were excited to use it. Somehow I don't like to tinker anymore in the personal computer usage scenarios and maybe it's people like me who have caused/convinced companies like Apple to close things down and try to make apps and machines simpler (at which they have failed specularly). My most used features were "/" followed by "n" and "shift+n", "t" -> open and "w" -> close tab, "f", "o" -> getting focus in address bar. Maybe I can spend hours (over days) and have a perfect config file and maybe, just maybe, it will work as intended but then again it might break with next version or next browser update/upgrade. Page reloads, redirects, weird behaviours at anything I try to do. I tried Vimium-FF ( ) and many other Vim like add-ons in last 2-3 months (after I decided to give Firefox another try after Pocket and the possibility of ditching MacOS in my personal usage), but no, these plugins are nearly nowhere as useable as they used to be. Some nice people have kept one alive for Safari as well but there's only so much they can do. And websites are also keen to grab key strokes, e.g. I noticed your other answer about the addons, it's very much appreciated, and if I can help with the beta or whatever, let me know, keep up with the great work.Įither browsers have locked things down too tight, or for some other reasons these Vim like plugins are skeletons of their past. With qutebrowser, if I want to close the modal, `gs` and `hd` are almost on the same place (it's only with experience that I noticed that hints are top left so `hd` is the hint I'm looking for) compare this to tridactyl the `hy` fits very nicely with the highlight which doesn't let any place for ambiguity. Now it's not that a big deal, but the advantages appears clearly on more saturated pages, off the top of my head, stackoverflow's triage: For the hints, it's mainly the fact that tridactyl highlights the elements hinted, for example with the Twitter web UI: In terms of integration with Firefox and links recognition. Before tridactyl, I used vimium and vim-vixen, this is the best one hands down. Just repeating my comment here although it was Tridactyl vs QuteBrowser, the same applies.
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