[simonvc]

Been beta testing this (full disclosure, angel invester) and i can honestly say i miss it when i'm not on my Big Sur machine. Vim keybindings are such a win, and Sigma does it better than all previous attempts at a vim-like browser because it's properly modal. You hit i to Insert (interact) with a page and escape to go back to controlling the browser. Or you can ignore all that and just use it as a tabs-on-the-sed browser.

[WA]

I'm probably not in the target market, but the slowest thing in a browser these days, for me, is the obnoxious closing of cookie banners and newsletter popups.

Hence, uBlock Origin + cosmetic filter list. The productivity boost is more than any keyboard assignment can ever do I guess.

[whywhywhywhy]

Still think it was a mistake of gigantic proportions when Apple removed the legacy extension support. Their content blockers replacement is nowhere near comparable to uBlock Origin used to be.

Currently there is no way to block YouTube ads on Safari MacOS and all the advice for extensions that do just sends you in a loop of the same few (many of which are paid for) that don't manage to do it for the past few months.

[WA]

Yes that’s why I switched from Safari to Firefox.

[sauravmitra]

Yes, they're very annoying. I'm working on implementing extensions ASAP so you can use those on SigmaOS (or maybe even built-in natively? ;p)

[secondcoming]

Except vim's interface is confusing

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...

[sauravmitra]

The biggest issue with Vim is that early learners feel punished and feel slower using it than their original tool. That post about quitting is hilarious, I just found it a a few weeks ago :P

We're working hard to make sure users don't feel punished when switching to SigmaOS, and only feeling faster from there. Part of the inspiration is from Vim, but that doesn't mean we aren't learning from its mistakes :)

[verdverm]

You can use the Vimium extension for chrome. Works great and is cross platform, been using it for years.

Also, most other OSes have native splitting of windows.