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I think an important difference between how I use vim and how I use a web browser is that in vim I need to type frequently. Though I may spend most time in normal mode in vim, I still need to switch to insert mode to make edits very frequently. With my normal web browsing it's not the case, so I'm more comfortable with a mouse for that. But I realise that this depends largely on the specific use case for web browsing. Reading blog posts is quite different from reading some documentation where one needs to search and backtrack frequently, for example, although both are done on a web browser. The latter involves the keyboard more frequently so would benefit from a keyboard-centric interface more.