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Vim Vixen
Accelerates your web browsing with Vim power!!
What is Vim Vixen?
"Vim Vixen" is a Firefox add-on that brings the powerful and efficient browsing strategies of Vim to your web browser. Users can control their browsing experience using VIM keys for navigation, tab management, scrolling, console access, and more. This add-on even offers functionality to manage histories and directories, make use of link following, zoom in/out, copy URLs, and enable/disable the add-on as per the user's wish. Vim Vixen essentially evolves your browser to be keyboard-centric, providing a seamless and accelerated web browsing experience.
Stats
By:
Shin'ya Ueoka
Rating:
4.65
(268)
Creation date:
2017-10-01
Weekly download count:
73
Firefox on Android:
No
Risk impact:
Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
- history
- sessions
- storage
- tabs
- clipboardRead
- notifications
- bookmarks
- browserSettings
Size:
1.19M
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
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Summary
Basic usage
h, j, k, l: scroll left, down, right, up, and right
j, k: scroll vertically
h, l: scroll horizontally
Ctrl+U, Ctrl+D: scroll pages by half of screen
Ctrl+B, Ctrl+F: scroll pages by a screen
0, $: scroll a page to leftmost/rightmost
gg, G: scroll to top/bottom
gg, G: scroll to top and bottom
d: delete current tab
u: reopen close tab
K, J: select prev or next tab
r: reload current tab
User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated.
Pros
- Provides Vim like controls to web pages
- Quick navigation via 'f'
- Great for most sites
- Recommended for vim/neovim users
- Better than Vimium C
Cons
- Adds a big white bar at the bottom of the screen on many sites
- Does not support buttons with JavaScript events
- Doesn't work as expected on basic sites like duckduckgo
- Some users experienced it as non-functional
Most mentioned
- Big white bar issue
- Desirable 'visual mode'
- Global enable/disable options
- Vers. 1.2.4 available on Github
Recent reviews
Breaks websites with massive white bar on bottom of page that blocks/hides content.
by
Gibbi, 2023-09-27
Safety
Risk impact
Vim Vixen is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk likelihood
Vim Vixen has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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