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User count 500,000+ 30,000+
Average rating 4.82 4.86
Rating count 4,394 152
Last updated 2024-04-04 2023-07-23
Size 278.53K 380.93K
Version 2.1.2 1.99.99
Short description
The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim. A keyboard shortcut tool for keyboard-based page navigation and browser tab operations with an advanced omnibar and global shortcuts
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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
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Vimium C is an open source browser extension that provides keyboard-based inner-page navigation, browser tab operations, and an enhanced search panel, so you may take full advantages of your browser without a mouse or touchpad.

It supports all original commands of Vimium and some new useful commands (a full list can be seen in a help dialog in the Vimium C Options page). And it can map a same key sequence to different commands for different websites (and/or for different active elements in page).

For example:

  • press f to hint all clickable elements of the current web page
  • press o to show a search panel ("Vomnibar", a safe iframe) to search in your history, bookmarks, opened tabs and configured search engines, and you can even remove a history or tab by selecting a search result and pressing Shift+Delete
  • press j, k, h, l to scroll down/up/left/right on web pages
  • press "/" to search for text; press "v" to enter Visual Mode (just like VIM)
  • press Shift+J, Shift+K, g0, g$ to switch to the previous/next/first/last tab
  • press x to remove a tab, and Shift+X to restore recently closed tabs (sessions), and many other commands
  • command repetition: for example, pressing 5X (5, Shift+X) will restore 5 recent closed tabs
  • configure key mappings to bind Vimium C's tens of commands to other key sequences, and add options to switch command behaviors
  • apply block lists and allow lists of key mappings on configurable special websites and URLs
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