Vimium

Vimium

The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.

What is Vimium?
"Vimium" is a Firefox add-on designed for those who favor keyboard shortcuts over mouse clicks. It borrows its inspiration from the Vim text editor, thus offering a slew of command prompts that let you navigate and control your browser with ease. Popular commands include scrolling, reloading, opening links, and manipulating tabs. Further refined search, history traversal, and tab management is also possible. It even supports command repetition and has a 'help' feature for beginners.
Merlin
Stats
Version: 2.1.2 (Last updated: 2024-04-04)
Creation date: 2017-04-22
Weekly download count: 1,347
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • bookmarks
  • history
  • storage
  • sessions
  • notifications
  • scripting
  • webNavigation
  • clipboardRead
  • clipboardWrite
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 281.58K
URLs: Website
Stats date:

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Vimium
Vimium (v2.1.2)
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Merlin
Summary

Keyboard Bindings

Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>, and <a-x> for ctrl+x, meta+x, and alt+x respectively. See the next section for how to customize these bindings.

Once you have Vimium installed, you can see this list of key bindings at any time by typing ?.

Navigating the current page:

? show the help dialog for a list of all available keys h scroll left j scroll down k scroll up l scroll right gg scroll to top of the page G scroll to bottom of the page

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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
  • Great functionality
  • Completely keyboard driven browser experience
  • Ability to grab URL with yy
  • Go up a level feature with gu
  • Pop tab to new window with W
Cons
  • Some elements not working
  • Outdated appearance
Most mentioned
  • Great functionality
  • Completely keyboard driven browser experience
  • Ability to grab URL with yy
Recent reviews
I'd like to see feature to open and save images with vimium
by Je, 2024-04-17


by Elster, 2024-04-05
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Safety
Risk impact

Vimium 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

Vimium is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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