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I use a similar setup. Tmux is essentially my WM, as all my work is done on jump boxes.

FWIW, vimperator is awesome in FF, though I hear it's going away soon with recent FF updates.

People have commented to me several times about the various FF extensions that give vim like control. I've tried them all.

My main complaint is that I just want a thin client over some rendering engine that I can easily script with bash or whatever. FF forces me to learn a whole new ecosystem and do things the FF way.

Don't get me wrong, if you love your browser then more power to you, but I feel like Uzbl has way too little exposure. Seems to me like most unix people would love it.

Sorry being so late to recommend it but I think you'll like Qutebrowser.

That's rights, Firefox is moving to Web Extension (iirc it's to ensure cross-compatibility with Chrome Extensions). Sadly it's losing most of the extensions which alter the behaviour of the browser in the process.

This is the reason I decided to give Qutebrowser a try. I really like it so far. Now I just need enough time to come up with some simple Keepass integration... (or just hope someone else does :-) )

I use keepassx, and it works well with FF without any integration tools. Would that not work for you?

Hm, I'll have to try that. I was using Keefox so far. Thanks for the hint!

Because of that I moved from Vimperator to VimFx[1] which is a great plugin.

Additionally, I use It's All Text[2] to write comments like these using Vim.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/vimfx/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/its-all-text/

What's the point of context switching to Vim for an internet comment? I get that it's all text, but I doubt there's any productivity boost over me writing this with my thumbs on my iPhone.

I personally like it as I tend to use vim controls even on input forms. Occasionally I end comments incorrectly:wq

I understand vimperator/pentadactyl and other "legacy" plugins will remain usable with FF ESR (long term support) version 52.x, which is supported until mid-2018. Hopefully we will see a rewrite by then.

Pale Moon will support XUL addons past Mozilla's EOL on Firefox. I've been using it for several years now as a replacement to Firefox.

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