Having more fun with Vimperator

Than I would have thought humanly possible.

It clashes with an extension though...any guesses which one?

Yep. BlueOrganiser.

I am not in the mood to tell them - I've told the main Vimperator developer.

A quick resume of Vimperator.

It is an extension that enables you to use Firefox without the mouse /considerably less mouse.


It is not only a useful keyboard shortcut app...it is built around the vi(m) text editor and the various shortcuts that come with it.


It does help if you have learnt about vim a bit - this obviously will limit its appeal.

Even my Open Source Guru nephew thinks vim is too hard core .


But perhaps all those clever little ways of navigating around an old black screen terminal have found a new purpose in life. Setting Marks on your urls during your session -kind of quick temporary bookmarks that you can access by typing a few characters- and the Quick Hinting option (places a 2 character sequence by each link on page) seem ideal for the modern multilinking web. I tried the latter on Flickr last night and it was great cruising around swiftly without the mouse.

The directional HJKL keys are also a lot more comfy than the official arrow keys -though you can use them too. In fact you can use just about any normal or site specific keyboard shortcut if you "escape all keys" with .

If you have a bit of time -and can enter an experimental frame of mind- and you're looking for a reason to use that Firefox browser again you should try Vimperator.

Vicarious gratification

I have been visualising all the expenditure on the house in terms of MacBook floating past my eyes. About a dozen so far...but I still need feel the urge for some IT shopping therapy. This is just about within my meagre remaining budget.

Vim for Firefox

Its absolutely nuts but I love it - someone has brought out an extension that makes Firefox behave like Vim. Why you ask? Why would anyone use Vim as an editor let alone get a browser to act the same? I don't know - but I do know I like it. Its so perverse for an old Windows user like me to grapple with this but there you are. (Written in Vim in console mode on XP).

You can find it here.

PS - I also like the fact that some other extension does the middle click paste thing in firefox for XP.