Surfingkeys VS vimari

For the privacy-conscious interested in SK, it may be worth a read of this GH issue: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1796

I empathise with the author wanting to make a buck but it's hard to reconcile the approach he took with the level of trust granted to this extension.

Hope this helps someone looking for a better option migrating from Vimium.

[0] https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys

Was this issue about the bundled search hijacker resolved in some sort of positive way? I abandoned SurfingKeys as soon as I heard about that and haven't looked at it again. It'd be nice if that was all rolled back, but I switched to Vimium and haven't found it to be particularly worse, at least not for the way that I browse the web. The only thing that I've been missing is the vim-like text editor but, for me, that's a relatively minor feature; I don't write giant comments that often.

Look into surfingkeys

Moved from it in favor of more features that surfingkeys provide. If you know a little bit of javascript you can conquer your browser!

Tridactyl's key feature is "native messaging".

A further alternative is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys. Its key feature is a javascript configuration - allowing you to bind arbitrary javascript to a key.

I can highly recommend this extension. It looks similar to the one you use.

Manifest V2 deprecation is likely going to break extensions that inject userscripts, like Tampermonkey [0] and SurfingKeys [1]. The Chrome team has been rather unhelpful. They've promised to add support for power-user tools like these in MV3:

dotproto from the Chrome team commented on May 27 [2]:

> @mon-jai, the short answer is no, I don't have any updates to share. That said, I'll reaffirm that we plan to support userscript managers in Maniest V3 before the Manifest V2 deprecation.

But the deprecation is approaching and the Chrome team hasn't released any more information about this AFAIK. These extensions are going to require large refactors to support MV3 and they can't meaningfully start until the Chrome team elucidates how script injection will work. With MV2 deprecation coming so soon, I worry there won't be enough time.

[0]: Manifest V3: examine the effects · Issue #644 · Tampermonkey/tampermonkey: https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/644

[1]: Migrate to Manifest V3 · Issue #1821 · brookhong/Surfingkeys - https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1821

[2]: https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/644#issu...

When I'm using Safari I've found myself using Vimari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vimari/id1480933944?mt=12

It's also available on GitHub if you're not interested in the Mac App Store: https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari

It works pretty well, but I've strayed away from using Vim & Vim bindings for everything after getting into using Emacs on my Linux box at work.

Thank you!! I use vimium and love it! I have not used its tab navigation though. I just use it because Vim life haha!

There is also https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari the Safari port thought it is not full featured as vimium.

I love Vimari (vim bindings), Wipr (ad blocking) and Simplified Twitter (clean Twitter UI).

Awesome! I just hit this issue and found the relevant discussion on GitHub.

I assume this is like a lite version of the Mac extension Vimari and its link hint feature? Except the user cannot (yet) customize the hint keys?

I do similar but on mac and using Safari. https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari is great for this.

So is Karabiner (https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/macos/macos-apps/karabiner) to map opening apps to two keys.