# Vim Vixen

> Accelerates your web browsing with Vim power!!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/vim-vixen](https://chrome-stats.com/d/vim-vixen)

## Overview

- **ID:** `vim-vixen`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Shin'ya Ueoka
- **Category:** appearance,other
- **Daily users:** 622
- **Weekly downloads:** 32
- **Rating:** 4.64 / 5 (269 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.3
- **Last updated:** 2021-09-26
- **First published:** 2017-10-01
- **Size:** 1.13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-04
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen/issues/](https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen/issues/)

## Description

**Vim Vixen** brings the power of Vim's efficient keyboard shortcuts to web browsing. With intuitive key bindings for scrolling, tab management, history navigation, and link following, it helps you accelerate your workflow without leaving the keyboard. Scroll pages vertically or horizontally using familiar Vim keys like `h`, `j`, `k`, `l`, and quickly navigate tabs using commands such as `d` (delete tab), `u` (undo close tab), and `J`/`K` to switch between tabs.

Advanced features include opening links in new tabs or windows, zoom control, copying URLs, and toggling the extension on or off per tab with ease. Whether you want to jump directly to the top or bottom of a page using `gg` or `G`, or manage your browser history with `H` and `L`, Vim Vixen empowers efficient keyboard-centric browsing for programmers and power users alike.

## Rankings

- #4,354 — Overall
- #230 — console

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `history`
- `sessions`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `clipboardRead`
- `notifications`
- `bookmarks`
- `browserSettings`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Vim Vixen provides Vim-style navigation and fast link hints and is praised for usability on many sites, often outperforming Vimium C. However, it suffers from a pervasive bottom white bar that obscures content, plus UI bugs (unusable or replaced command field, iframe/console bar injections) and inconsistent JS-element support, leading to reliability concerns on some sites.

### Pros

- Vim-like keyboard navigation for browsing without a mouse.
- Fast, keyboard-based link hints/navigation (quick navigation with 'f').
- Compared favorably to Vimium C and perceived as easier to use for Vim-style browsing.
- Generally works on most sites (decent functionality across many pages).

### Cons

- Persistent large white bar at the bottom of pages that blocks content across multiple sites (Facebook, GitHub, etc.).
- Command field can become unusable after closing it or be replaced by a white field, disrupting use.
- In some pages the add-on injects an iframe/console bar at the bottom, creating layout issues.
- Does not reliably support elements controlled by JavaScript (buttons, dynamic content), causing functionality gaps on certain sites.
- Occasional outright non-functionality or instability on some sites.

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