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Browse faster with vimium and qutebrowser

Vimium is a Chrome extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. The idea is to create a browser that behaves more like vim does.

What is vim?

As a developer, it is important to have a good editor. You can't work efficiently in notepad, you need something better. Meet vim.

Vim is a programmers editor and it can increase your productivity, if you are new to vim I recommend these exercises.

There are many reasons to learn vim

  • Vim is always available everywhere
  • Vim increases your productivity
  • Vim can be used in ssh, terminal and GUI
  • Vim-mode is available in visual studio, jetbrains and other IDEs
  • It's on every server you will ever login to
  • It is very powerful

vim keybindings

Why vimium?

If you use vim a lot, you will like vimium.

  • vimium is a keyboard navigation addon for chromium.
  • vimium is similar to vim in that it takes advantage of VI like key bindings
  • open and close new tabs
  • go to new tabs or scroll around existing ones
  • open new horizontal or vertical tabs next to each othe
  • navigate the web without your fingers ever leaving the keyboard!

Qutebrowser? 🐒

An alternative to vimium wit chrome is qutebrowser. qutebrowser is a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser with a minimal GUI. It's written in Python and uses PyQt5 and QtWebEngine (WebKit/Blink).

qutebrowser

It is keyboard-friendly, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
Features

  • Minimalist UI
  • Comfortable and powerful keyboard-driven UI
  • Tabbed browsing
  • Vim-like keybindings
  • Bookmarks
  • Session management
  • Web Panels (i.e. bookmarklets)
  • QtWebEngine

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John Snow

Thanks a lot for that extension, now I can finally glue my hands to the keyboard :D

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