Browse faster with vimium and qutebrowser

#linux #productivity #vim

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).