Vieb
Vim Inspired Electron Browser - Vim bindings for the web by design (by Jelmerro)
vimium-c
A keyboard shortcut browser extension for keyboard-based navigation and tab operations with an advanced omnibar (by gdh1995)
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1,249 | 3,067 | |
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9.1 | 9.3 | |
4 days ago | 11 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Vieb
Posts with mentions or reviews of Vieb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
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Pick my next browser for the next 3 months.
Vieb Browser because it is keyboard based and very easy to move around the interface.
- Vieb: Vim-like web-browser using Electron
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Is there a way to get the current data folder?
If you know the names of the folders in advance it's possible to make a different mapping in each of the folders to load a different file per datafolder but with the same keys. There is no variable system in Vieb, and as such there are no commands that will need or use the datafolder as an argument. This specific question would best be solved by a proper bookmark system which would load a file from the datafolder anyway, without having to build this in manually. Work on this has started some time ago, but has recently stalled: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/pull/391 If you or anyone else is up to the task feel free to pick this up again, as I don't use bookmarks at all so it's of little use to me personally, and as such have bigger priority tickets to work on in Vieb most of the time.
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What software would you like to see ported?
Please could you port Vieb? It's the only browser that really works on my old ThinkPad!
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Double click to copy texts.
First one is related to and blocked by https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/257
- Any of the terminal web browsers supporting custom per-website styles?
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Vieb 9.0.0: chromium 104, faster explore + follow mode, darkreader blocklist, userstyles for custom css, markdownviewer, (quick)marks for scrolling urls & pointer, smaller builds, containernames for same tab, removed extension support, lots of bugfixes
Download the latest release from vieb.dev or github. View the changelog for details. And check the FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions and startup help.
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A way to hide the scrollbar completely + darkreader takes a sec to apply darkmode..
For the time being you can keep using the extension, but once 9.0.0 is released extension support will indeed be removed. To modify the styling, you can use the new "userstyle" setting to inject custom styling into any page, the relevant commit is here. Once that version is released you can find the help for it with :help userstyle, though that isn't in any released version yet (You can always build it yourself to get it early).
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Will Vieb support extensions in future?
In the current releases there is experimental support for it, but this will be dropped soon due to the lack of compatibility. Instead I will focus my efforts towards integrating commonly requested features, which has started with the integration of sponsorblock and darkreader. So unless by a miracle somebody will contribute a working extension integration, full extension support is not something Vieb will have. You can find more info on Github, and also suggest extensions you want to be in Vieb: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/385
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Vieb 8.0.0: chromium 102, performance and security improvements, add source viewer, add readerview, better adblocking, support prompts (and block dialogs), custom useragents, bugfixes for: follow labels, composing keyboards, url encoding and much more
Extensions are hard, and the current implementation is as far as I can personally make them work, which is sadly not good enough. I'm considering dropping support altogether and implementing major ones into Vieb (such as some sort of darkreader). Extensions are such a daunting task that even implementing multiple extensions from scratch seems easier than trying to make all of them work as proper extensions, this is also the approach used for the new sourceviewer and reader view (both of which use package to render the views, but are still integrated into Vieb as if a native part of it). The current progress of making extensions work is tracked in this ticket: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/130, but it's been stuck at basic extensions (such as dark reader) without GUI for a while, and even those fail to install occasionally for the most obscure and random reasons, it's just not very stable at all.
vimium-c
Posts with mentions or reviews of vimium-c.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-05.
- Show HN: Bedframe – open-source Browser Extension Development framework
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Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
I also recommended vimium-c (https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c). It's like vimium on steroid: with a bunch of additional useful features.
- Explore Wikipedia's New Look
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Thumb to finger trackball, thoughts.
I also don't think that finger operated trackballs necessarily rest the thumb more, given many default to a scroll wheel on the side, but I appreciate ambidextrous models. The Kensington Orbit is a very affordable and well-built trackball, although its buttons are annoyingly clicky, apparently don't last long for many people, and it only has two buttons with the possibility of pressing them together (chording) to get another button (like the middle button). I'm much more optimistic about using it this time, since the last time I used the Kensington Orbit I had not yet discovered/installed the vimium-c browser extension, which lets you browse entirely with the keyboard, so in my case I now don't have to use forward/back buttons and middle clicks nearly as often I used to.
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Coincidence? I think not
It has quite a few extra features/improvements; for more information: https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki
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Leap.nvim: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
Vimium C (https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c) supports link hinting by simply typing a few characters of the link you want to press. It also searches the actual url and alt-text for links without text (such as buttons and icons). I found it by accident looking through its settings and it has by far been the best improvement to my browsing experience since discovering tabs.
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VI-bindings everywhere - does it exist?
I use gdh1995/vimium-c.
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I made a bash script to open videos with mpv
The purpose is to be used in conjunction with browser addons such as vimium-c, where you can copy a url with just yy, and then launch this script and have it open mpv.
- Vimium C - Vomnibar - prevent it from opening URL's, just search them in my search engine
- Hands-free coding
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Vieb and vimium-c you can also consider the following projects:
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
vimium - The hacker's browser.
luakit - Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
tridactyl - A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
browser - A drop-in web browser block
Surfingkeys - Map your keys for web surfing, expand your browser with javascript and keyboard.
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
firenvim - Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.
w3m.vim - w3m plugin for vim
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.