Vimium is a Chrome extension that provides keyboard based navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor.
Installation instructions:
You can install the stable version of Vimium from the Chrome Extensions Gallery.
Alternatively, you can install it from source:
- Navigate to chrome://extensions
- Click on "Load Extension..."
- Select the vimium directory.
The Settings page can be found by clicking the Options button next to Vimium on chrome://extensions.
is to be interpreted as ctrl + x together.
Navigating the current page: h scroll left j scroll down k scroll up l scroll right gg scroll to top of the page G scroll to bottom of the page scroll down a page scroll up a page f activate link hints mode to open in current page F activate link hints mode to open in new tab r reload gf view source zi zoom in zo zoom out / enter find mode -- type your search query and hit enter to search or esc to cancel n cycle forward to the next find match N cycle backward to the previous find match i enter insert mode -- all commands will be ignored until you hit esc to exit y copy the current url to the clipboard
Navigating your history: ba, H go back in history fw, fo, L go forward in history
Manipulating tabs: J, gt next tab K, gT previous tab t create tab d close current tab u restore closed tab (i.e. unwind the 'd' command)
Vimium supports command repetition so, for example, hitting '5t' will open 5 tabs in rapid succession.
1.11 (Current, unreleased)
- Commands 'gt' & 'gT' to move to the next & previous tab.
- Command 'yy' to yank (copy) the current tab's url to the clipboard.
- Better Linux support.
1.1 (01/03/2010)
- A nicer looking settings page.
- An exclusion list that allows you to define URL patterns for which Vimium will be disabled (e.g. http*://mail.google.com/*).
- Vimium-interpreted keystrokes are no longer sent to the page.
- Better Windows support.
- Various miscellaneous bug fixes and UI improvements.
Copyright (c) 2010 Phil Crosby, Ilya Sukhar. See MIT-LICENSE.txt for details.