vimium.md (1274B)
1 +++ 2 title = "You Should Use Vimium" 3 datePublished = 2026-08-24 4 template = "blog-page.html" 5 +++ 6 7 You should use the [Vimium](https://vimium.github.io/) extension. It adds vim bindings to your web browser. I don't use vim (I know how to in theory, just never made the switch), but this extension is great regardless of if you actually use vim. 8 9 The first big advantage is bringing certain actions onto the main keyboard keys, notably page up and page down, which are now `u` and `d`. Much easier to hit than `PageUp` or `PageDown`, plus my keyboard doesn't actually have those keys. Hitting `gg` to go to the top is also really handy. My favourite feature of Opera back when I used it on Windows was that you could click on the active tab in the tab bar to go to the top. 10 11 The second advantage is the link-clicking mode. If you hit `f` (or `Shift+f` for new tab), it will show a key combination next to links. The key combination is normally something like `d` or `sf`, easy to hit with just your left hand. This is so much faster for navigating around pages. I use it a lot just to re-focus the search bar on a website. 12 13 I have disabled the extension on YouTube, as YouTube already has inbuilt key-bindings which this breaks (`/` to go to search bar, `f` for fullscreen etc)