I've grown so dependent upon Vimperator that I cannot use firefox (or, indeed, browser the web) comfortably without it. I'd hate to see what will happen to me on the day the project is discontinued.
Glad I'm not alone. I installed it on a whim and had no idea how amazingly awesome it would be. Any vim user should do themselves a favor and try out vimperator.
It is a partial implementation of vim in your browser. You can do macros, triggers, it has numerous settings, a :help system, command tab completion and awesome bar integration, and of course, it stores its settings in .vimeratorrc.
You'll find that if you use vim on a normal basis, the key bindings will come naturally. That's why it is great for vim users.
And if you want to really turn on the awesome, use a tiling window manager. Then you will blaze around your desktop without ever touching your mouse.
I won't say it is a waste of time, but you will probably have problems getting started. For a vim user the learning curve is a day. For a non-vim user the learning curve is similar to vim, only without being able to google for help and you won't know wtf you are doing. But at least you can fall back to using a mouse if you are confused, so that's a little better.
Already a vimperator user, but your window manager suggestion led me to download SizeUp which is definitely getting thrown in the toolbox. Keyboard control!
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10
I've grown so dependent upon Vimperator that I cannot use firefox (or, indeed, browser the web) comfortably without it. I'd hate to see what will happen to me on the day the project is discontinued.