We can either temporarily disable by going to insert mode (i) or even disable permanently using vimium options (exclusion) which can work wholly (all keys) or partially (only certain keys). Using vimium can create conflict with existing key bindings (in apps like Gmail, kubernetes dashboard, etc). Navigate back: H, Navigate forward: ‘L’.search anywhere (bookmarks history) o: $search_text (O for new tab).working with links: f: $link_character (F for new tab).Vim style page navigation: j->down,k->up,gg->page top,G->page bottom.There are myriads of options available and you can create custom key mappings and bindings too but following are the ones that I frequently use and love: Once installed and enabled you can directly start using it. Similarly there are addons and plugins for firefox too. Emacs stands at a comparable place too!! Vimium for Chrome For people working on remote servers (you don’t have grahical server access to them to use fancy IDEs), when the files being dealt are huge (Gigabytes of text data: try opening that in your IDE), when sytem resource is very less (say you are inside a VM with limited memory, or are inside a docker container and don’t want you bloat it with heavy memory consumptive applications) VIM comes to rescue. It is well known for how easy, efficient and configurable it is when used properly. Vim is one of the most efficient (if used properly-and it has steep learning curve) text editors (IDE) with a myriad of capabilities. Vimium strives to provide vim like capabilities to a browser. I even posted about it under ‘productivity’ subreddit. There are lot of fancy terminal based browsers but we all know that they offer very less utility value when we actually want to accomplish something. So, I started searching for any plugins for browser where you could navigate and do stuffs using shortcuts. I found it very convinient and easy to use especially because you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard. While browsing through subreddit posts, there is a feature in the reddit web-app where you have keyboard shortcuts for browsing: N for next post, P for previous post and so on. without using the mouse and avoid having to make many clicks to do so.So, I am a regular reddit user and it’s one of my favorites online communities. With everything to our liking, we can now start to take advantage of all the keyboard shortcuts that allow us to navigate faster from Google Chrome and perform certain actions. Once this is done, the icon appears next to the rest of the extensions in the browser bar, from which we can access its configuration.
To add the browser Vimium, this is what this extension is called, just go to the Chrome Web Store and install it. One of the great features is that it allows us to edit the key combinations to make them to our liking and that we can say on which pages we want the extension not to be active. In addition, it is not only valid for navigation but will also allow us to perform other actions such as opening and closing tabs or going to our bookmarks.
To do this, how could it be otherwise, we will add an extension to the browser that gives the browser the ability to browse the Internet at the Vim shortcuts help. It turned out to be the right solution the source of my frustration was the Vimium chrome. I was refactoring ActiveCollab’s datepicker and came across a problem: to close the popover, I’d always have to trigger one extra keypress event. Although when we use Google Chrome some actions are available with a click of the mouse to increase our browsing speed, we will show below how we can add a good number keyboard shortcuts to navigate faster in Google Chrome. Debugging JavaScript Events With Chrome and Its Extensions. However, this means that we must have memorized all key combinations that allow us to perform these actions. To do this, one of the most used practices is the use of keyboard shortcuts, a way to perform different actions quickly and directly that the use of the mouse could force us to make several clicks. When we sit in front of the computer, we try to make the most of our time and increase productivity.