VimFx
Vieb
VimFx | Vieb | |
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4 | 62 | |
1,400 | 1,257 | |
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6.7 | 9.2 | |
22 days ago | 6 days ago | |
CoffeeScript | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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VimFx
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Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
I used to be a loving VimFX [0] user. It had intelligent link hints (essentially, links it thinks you are likely to want, e.g. because they're big, get single-key shortcuts). The scrolling was actually native, as in equivalent to hitting the arrow keys. I don't think any of the other Vim emulator plugins ever replicated that. Vimium doesn't, Tridactyl doesn't, and Vim Vixen was horribly broken.
Apparently VimFX still runs via some hacks on modern Firefox versions? The last release was even in 2022. Maybe I should give it a try again.
[0] https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx
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your favorite browser with VI key bindings ?
Yeah, agree, very frustrating. I didn’t want to leave Firefox, so started looking for an alternative. I stumbled upon https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx. It solves the issue.
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Vimium C – Extension to navigate website by keyboard shortcuts
> But instead we get “Colorways”
Yeah, the browser situation sucks and it's getting worse by the day.
> I remember being upset for months when they killed XUL.
You know what, still a week does not pass without me mourning the death XUL...
I'm currently use Waterfox quite a bit. VimFX is still somewhat maintained[1] and works with Waterfox Current!
It should be added that this browser is owned by an adtech company called System1. But my only alternative at this point is surfing in a straitjacket (without VimFX) or use Waterfox. Haven't really found any apparent wrongdoings by System1 yet, but I guess it's a question of time...
[1] https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx
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Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
I recently installed Tridactyl¹ as a Firefox extension². It has a ton of features but I only wanted to replace the functionality of two non-WebExtension add-ons:
* VimFx³ provided handy keyboard short-cuts for working within the browser
* ItsAllText⁴ which allowed me to use GVim to edit and save the contents of a text box
While going through its builtin tutorial, I found that it also supports keyboard-based selection of text. While it’s still documented as not yet being stable, I’ve found that it works well. I’ve yet to incorporate the rest of Tridactyl’s extra functionality into my workflow but what they’ve achieved with the WebExtensions API is very impressive. Also, and importantly, the built-in tutorial and documentation are excellent.
While working from home, I’m currently using Windows 10 so I’ve ran into one issue⁵, “Encoding of non-Latin-1 characters entered in external editor gets messed up with Unicode-based external editors on Windows” (and it looks like that should be fixed soon).
1. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
3. https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx
4. https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext/
5. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/876
Vieb
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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.
What are some alternatives?
Surfingkeys - Map your keys for web surfing, expand your browser with javascript and keyboard.
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.
vimari - Safari port of vimium
browser - A drop-in web browser block
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
native_messenger - Native messenger for Tridactyl, a vim-like web-extension.
vimium-c - A keyboard shortcut browser extension for keyboard-based navigation and tab operations with an advanced omnibar
vimb - Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.