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 is
• O - (shift + o) - opens a box to type the URL and opens in a new tab
• j - 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 to less via command line) the page;
• u - also makes pagination only upwards;
• h - and l 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 and n matches new (next) terms according to the researcher, N also, only previous ones.
• H - returns one to the available page in the history and L to the front.
• x - closes a tab and X 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 …

Github project

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