Vimium is a Chrome extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. The idea is to create a browser that behaves more like vim does.

What is vim?

As a developer, it is important to have a good editor. You can't work efficiently in notepad, you need something better. Meet vim.

Vim is a programmers editor and it can increase your productivity, if you are new to vim I recommend these exercises.

There are many reasons to learn vim

• Vim is always available everywhere
• Vim increases your productivity
• Vim can be used in ssh, terminal and GUI
• Vim-mode is available in visual studio, jetbrains and other IDEs
• It's on every server you will ever login to
• It is very powerful

Why vimium?

If you use vim a lot, you will like vimium.

• vimium is a keyboard navigation addon for chromium.
• vimium is similar to vim in that it takes advantage of VI like key bindings
• open and close new tabs
• go to new tabs or scroll around existing ones
• open new horizontal or vertical tabs next to each othe
• navigate the web without your fingers ever leaving the keyboard!

Qutebrowser? 🐒

An alternative to vimium wit chrome is qutebrowser. qutebrowser is a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser with a minimal GUI. It's written in Python and uses PyQt5 and QtWebEngine (WebKit/Blink).

It is keyboard-friendly, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
Features

• Minimalist UI
• Comfortable and powerful keyboard-driven UI
• Tabbed browsing
• Vim-like keybindings
• Bookmarks
• Session management
• Web Panels (i.e. bookmarklets)
• QtWebEngine