Vimium

The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.

What is Vimium?

Vimium is a popular Chrome extension by Ilya Sukhar, Phil Crosby, Stephen Blott. This extension has 479,114 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.82, and is most similar to Vimium C - All by Keyboard and Firenvim. The latest version, 1.67.4, was updated 6 months ago.

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By: Ilya Sukhar, Phil Crosby, Stephen Blott

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Users: 479,114 ▲ 6.24K

Rating: 4.82 (4,334)

Version: 1.67.4 (Last updated: 2022-12-02)

Creation date: 2020-03-02

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
bookmarks
history
storage
sessions
notifications
webNavigation
<all_urls>

Size: 273.41K

Email: Click to see

URLs: Website

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Vimium-FF (v1.67.6)

439 31,698

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 729 ▲ 78

Other rankings

#2067 in Productivity ▼ 93

#7 in commands keyword

#9 in scroll keyword

#12 in command keyword

#23 in new tabs keyword

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Summary

*NOTE* Google does not allow Vimium to run on this Chrome Web Store page and the Chrome New Tab page, by design. Sorry about that!

*NOTE* Chrome has some alarmist messaging around the permissions that Vimium needs to run. Really all it's asking for is that Vimium's javascript be loaded into every page. Don't be alarmed. Vimium never talks to any servers and does absolutely nothing with your data. Read the open source code if you're curious.

For more information about rebinding your keys and how to use many of Vimium's features, see here: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/README.md

Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>, <a-x> for ctrl+x, meta+x, and alt+x respectively.

Navigating the current page:

    ?       show the help dialog for a list of all available keys
    h       scroll left
    j       scroll down
    k       scroll up
    l       scroll right

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Improves productivity
Flexible customizations
Speeds up browsing by navigating links with keyboard
Saves time and reduces hand strain
Essential for keyboard-loving power users
Indispensable in day-to-day browsing
Further expands keyboard usage
Makes other browsers feel awkward to use
Useful for navigating tabs and URLs

Cons

Difficult to use with non-English input methods
Steep learning curve
Customizations could be easier
Issue with text copying and pasting on some browsers

Most mentioned

Improves productivity
Flexible customizations
Saves time and reduces hand strain
Speeds up browsing by navigating links with keyboard
Essential for keyboard-loving power users
Indispensable in day-to-day browsing
Useful for navigating tabs and URLs
Steep learning curve
Customizations
English input method issue

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Safety

Risk impact

Vimium requires a lot of risky permissions and is not safe to use. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

Vimium has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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