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As a Vim user I've been happy for quite some time now with Vimium. Being able to navigate with speed and select links and elements like forms had made browsing with the keyboard quite enjoyable for me.

Together with ShiftIt for window resizing I generally don't need to use the mouse when I'm coding at all.

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I'm a vimium user too, and I find gleeBox pretty interesting. The box concept is something I sometimes wish vimium had, the tab manager is also really convenient. However, default vimium's way of managing links seems better for me at the moment - for example when you have a site with lots of links with the same caption (like 'comments' on HN main page), gleeBox seems to be a bad solution (or I didn't figure out how to use it properly?).

if you want to go to a link called "14 comments", start with typing "14".

How do you up-/downvote?

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You can make this a scraper command.

I'm also pretty happy with Vimium as a former Vimperator user. The longer I use Chrome though, I find myself using the omnibox more and more for search etc. Especially when coding.

So lately I've been experimenting with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mkinfhanlabcenjnpb... to navigate links.

Works pretty good, although lot's of room for improvment.

Interesting concept to return matching links via the Omnibox.

Thanks for mentioning ShiftIt, I really like it so far! Maximizing windows with the keyboard was something I've always wanted!

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