Questions tagged [vimium]

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How to use vimium to select text from a page

Background I'm a religious fanatical devoted believer of vimium. It speeds up my internet usage like nothing else. I'm also (naturally) a heavy user of vim itself. Question How can I actually select a certain text in a screen using vimium without…
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Make cursor not select a text field when switch browser tabs

I started using Vimium for Google Chrome and it is great. There is only one problem: When I cycle through my open tabs and I visit a tab like facebook, the cursor goes immediately into a textbox of a chat window, stopping me from cycling through the…
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Vimium C keyboard Ctrl+N not working for microsoft edge (linux)

I'm using vimium C for microsoft edge. When I open the tab select dropdown, I can usually navigate up and down using Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N. But on microsoft edge for linux Ctrl+N just opens a new window (strangely Ctrl+P works even though according to…
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Vimium: How to select a frame (e.g. Reddit comment) in the current viewport?

I'm a power user of Vimium, but I haven't figured out how to achieve this: When I'm browsing, say, Reddit, using "j" and "k" keys to scroll. In the middle of the browsing, there would be some comment that's the root of a large tree (sub-comments).…
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What's the keyboard key of defocus in address bar in Google Chrome?

I was using extensions like Vimium, Saka Key( to use only keyboard to control web browser ) sometimes, I want to leave focus, in the current tab, so that I can active those extensions with keyboard keys e.g. 1.when cursor focus on an input element,…
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How can I defocus all inputs on a page easily?

I'm using a Chrome extension called Vimium which allows me to navigate quickly through a page, it inserts letters as commands on all the parts of the page that I can iteract with when I press f on the keyboard, but it is only enabled if the element…