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Vim plugin for Firefox

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46 pointskumar0us23 comments

I was looking for something along these lines, but I really just want the h, j, k, l movement keys. Those combined with the / (search in page) and ' (search links in page) shortcuts would dramatically cut down my use of the mouse when browsing.

Hm. I mostly stick to Page Up/Down when scrolling.

Have you found a way to make firefox scroll more than one line per key down/up? I find page down/up too coarse and key down/up too fine.

This is just a guess, but have you tried ctrl-d and ctrl-u?

No that doesn't work

i've used keyconfig for that for many years (and is consequently why i get so frustrated at websites that default to focusing some search text box when the main function of the page isn't to search).

it isn't marked as compatible with firefox 3.5 but i've tweaked the xpi file to say so, and it works fine.

http://jcs.org/tmp/keyconfig-35.html

if you put this in .vimperatorrc it makes switching tabs much easier

  map J <C-PageDown>
  map K <C-PageUp>

can't live without it. now even in Safari, i sub-consciously press "d" to close a tab, "/" to search with regular expression, and most frequently "f" to jump to a link by referencing number on the current screen.

------------ hooking up my muscle memory with the web

For emacs people http://conkeror.org/

Annoyingly it removed the menu and toolbar, and I don't know how to get it back...

Why do you need them? :D Well if you really need them back, type :help to find out how.

:set guioptions+=mT

Real web-surfers use the Firemacs extension :p

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141

the more emacs-y solution would have been to embed the browser in the editor.

http://www.gnu.org/software/w3/

Or emacs-w3m (http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/), if you're on Unix.

I had a love/hate relationship with Vimperator. I loved using it, but it kept crashing Firefox, so I could not longer use it, which made me hate it.

I agree -- my Firefox is better for it, but there are definitely some gotchas that irk me. Among them; incompatibility with other plugins I adore, like Tab Mix Plus.

I used Vimperator for a while, but it slowed Firefox down significantly, and made it more prone to crashing. I believe it's a known bug.