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by dgquintas 3593 days ago
There's also vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
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And cVim: https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

Now how do they compare?

Surfingkeys has a couple of features over cVim that I really like:

-pressing '?' on any page will open the list of shortcuts

-searching through bookmarks / history ('t') is prettier

-very useful feature of switching through all the current open tabs with link hints ('T')

There's one shortcoming I noticed, however, is that when you go to the link hint mode, there are no indication than you entered it. On cVim there's a "follow link" notice in the lower right corner.

I'm a fairly casual user though, someone else will probably find more differences and pros / cons for each extension

As a long time cVim user I've found out that 99% of my browsing can be done with its scroll up/down and open link features.

When combined with this switch to recent tabs extension, the mouse becomes almost irrelevant: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggle-switch-rece...

Vimium has the `visitPreviousTab` built in for toggling between two tabs.
There is something like this in Surfingkeys,

B - Go one tab history back F - Go one tab history forward

I've tried a bunch of these "vim-like" plugins and I always come back to Vimium (on Chrome). On Firefox I'm stuck with Vimperator, which means I don't use Firefox very often.
Why so? Firefox is still my browser du jour mainly because of Vimperator. I also use Vimium when in chrome, but Vimperator is way more powerful, and plugins are trivial to write: https://vimpr.github.io/plugins-en.html
you should check out VimFX for firefox, its modeled after Vimium but i like it even better.
I LOVE the scroll with j & k, it's smoothest scrolling experience I've ever seen!