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Comment by michaelbuckbee | Hacker News Reader

There's an incredibly useful extension that's not on that list that I bet a good number of HN folks would like:

Vimium [1]

It lets you use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through webpages, click buttons, jump to text boxes, etc. it's been huge for me both as a productivity tool (it's significantly faster than using a mouse for navigation) and also for reducing RSI/strain on my hands.

Here's a video of it in action as you really need to see it being used to understand the different interaction model it provides.

https://youtu.be/t67Sn0RGK54?t=21

1 - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

edit: fixed link (but if you enjoyed the writeup of data security requirements let me know).

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I used to use vimperator and/or pentadactyl back before the big firefox change that redid how the browser buttons/menus/etc were rendered and it was pretty ideal. The bar at the bottom, the ability to do bind any menu action, the quick addon management interface, the beautiful completion when opening a link.

Since eventually switching to Chrome, I've tried vimium every now and then and always found it lacking. It usually got in the way when I didn't want it to and I'd get sick of trying to figure out how to turn it off for a particular site/just for this one interaction and just uninstall it.

It's been a year probably, so I guess I'm about due for another go.

I've been using Tridactyl ever since Vimperator went belly-up. It's not 100% there yet, but it's getting close!

I use cVim and turning it off for a domain is a matter of clicking on the extension icon and then 'disable for this domain'.

The reason I switched to cVim was that I preferred its approach to the 'type keys to click link on page' feature.

I prefer Vimvixen for Firefox, but it's essentially the same thing. Cannot live without it.

There is also the Nyxt browser. Vim, emacs or CUA keybindings available.

https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt

banana_giraffe's comment is pointing out that you linked to an unrelated google doc – maybe you meant to link to the vimium homepage instead?

Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm using Saka keys for this. May be availlable for Chrome too, not sure.

Vimium is a CPRA checklisk?

Ironically Vimium (and most extensions) are disabled on the Chrome Extensions domains. So when I hit 'yy' to copy the URL of the existing page it didn't copy it, so I instead pasted the last URL I had, which was the CPRA checklist.

Not something I had intended to do, but I hope the checklist was useful.

Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the reference though. So far I like it.

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