Vimium - The Hacker’s Browser

Vimium is a browser extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the Vim editor.
— Vimium

Installation instructions:

Install via the Chrome web store or the Firefox Add-ons site.

Keyboard bindings

Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>, and <a-x> for ctrl+x, meta+x, and alt+x respectively. For shift+x and ctrl-shift-x, just type X and <c-X>. See the next section for how to customize these bindings.

Once you have Vimium installed, you can see this list of key bindings at any time by typing ?.

C-?::show the help dialog for a list of all available keys

yy::copy the current url to the clipboard

H::go back in history

L::go forward in history

<C-6>::Go to previously-visited tab (visitPreviousTab)

gi
focus the first (or n-th) text input box on the page. Use to cycle through options.

i::enter insert mode — all commands will be ignored until you hit Esc to exit

C-;::open a link in the current tab

C-:::open a link in a new tab

b::Open bookmark

B::Open bookmark in a new tab

C-S-1 (brave custom hotkey)::move current tab to new window. NOTE: this is sometimes very useful.

C-S-A (brave default hotkey)::search through your open tabs

ma, mA::set local mark “a” (global mark “A”)

Jump to local mark “a” (global mark “A”)
\a, `A`

”“”
jump back to the position before the previous jump, that is, before the previous gg, G, n, N, / or \a`

]], [[::Follow the link labeled ‘next’ or ’>’ (‘previous’ or ’<’)

<a-f>::open multiple links in a new tab

Custom Key Mappings

You may remap or unmap any of the default key bindings in the “Custom key mappings” on the options page.

Enter one of the following key mapping commands per line:

• ==map key command==: Maps a key to a Vimium command. Overrides Chrome’s default behavior (if any).
• ==unmap key==: Unmaps a key and restores Chrome’s default behavior (if any).
• ==unmapAll==: Unmaps all bindings. This is useful if you want to completely wipe Vimium’s defaults and start from scratch with your own setup.

Examples:

• map <c-d> scrollPageDown maps ctrl+d to scrolling the page down. Chrome’s default behavior of bringing up a bookmark dialog is suppressed.
• map r reload maps the r key to reloading the page.
• unmap <c-d> removes any mapping for ctrl+d and restores Chrome’s default behavior.
• unmap r removes any mapping for the r key.

Available Vimium commands can be found via the “Show available commands” link near the key mapping box on the options page. The command name appears to the right of the description in parentheses.

You can add comments to key mappings by starting a line with " or #.

The following special keys are available for mapping:

• <c-*>, <a-*>, <s-*>, <m-*> for ctrl, alt, shift, and meta (command on Mac) respectively with any key. Replace * with the key of choice.
• <left>, <right>, <up>, <down> for the arrow keys.
• <f1> through <f12> for the function keys.
• <space> for the space key.
• <tab>, <enter>, <delete>, <backspace>, <insert>, <home> and <end> for the corresponding non-printable keys (version 1.62 onwards).

Shifts are automatically detected so, for example, <c-&> corresponds to ctrl+shift+7 on an English keyboard.

References

• Many of the more advanced or involved features are documented on Vimium’s GitHub wiki.

• Also see the FAQ.