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The reason I use Vimium rather than qutebrowser is simply because the former has the standard compliment of Chromium plugins and the latter does not, or at least last time I tried it.

It's hard to live with many of those plugins. — Though I very much loathe that the plugins do not work on “special pages” which have to be navigated in an inconvenient manner.

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> Though I very much loathe that the plugins do not work on “special pages” which have to be navigated in an inconvenient manner.

This is one of the worst things about the Quantum addon changes in Firefox too. Can't use my Vimium shortcuts or Gesturefy gestures on a new tab page, nor on an error page (404 etc.), not even on a plaintext web page (i.e if the mimetype is text). It's so annoying and interruptive.

Didn't know it's due to Quantum. It's definitely annoying. On my FF, I have to go back to mouse/FF shortcuts when a PDF, new Tab, etc. is at focus.

The pdf viewer is one of the reasons I won't use FF. on chrome vimium-c has already solved these issues (its pdf viewer is the smoothest I've used in any application)

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