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Vimium is a Chrome extension that allows the user to use keyboard-based navigation in their browser. Questions about Vimium that are not programming related, are off-topic on Stack Overflow.

Vimium is a Chrome extension that allows the user to use keyboard-based navigation in their browser. It is inspired by the text editor, hence the name Vimium.

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What are use cases of insert mode in Vimium and where is it documented?

I love Vimium and finally started to look into more of its features, but I just wasn't able to find anything on how it can be useful at all. For example, Visual mode is nicely documented in the Wiki but all I could find about insert mode so far is…
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Search for opened tabs in chrome using Vimium

Does Vimium have a key mapping to search for a already opened tab? A use case would be I have a "www.facebook.com" tab opened in my browser along with 20 other tabs. I want to use Vimium to search if there is already a "www.facebook.com" tab open…
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How can I make my element clickable for Vimium?

I'm using Vimium on Firefox and Chrome and it helps me a lot https://github.com/philc/vimium I noticed that some divs can be clicked and I found that class='demo-button' is one of them
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Vimium - how to map vimium shortcut keys over chrome default shortcut keys?

I installed Vimium for my Chrome browser to use but I noticed that Chrome shortcut keys take higher priority. For instance, if I try , instead of scrolling a page up, I see the source code of the page. How can I configure Chrome or Vimium to…
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Vimium: something like "f" for input fields?

In Vimium, is there something like f for input fields? E.g. in a form with 10 input fields, I directly want to jump to the 5th, instead of only gi and tabbing through. Is that possible using Vimium?
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Vimium and Colab Integration

I love Colab. There are free TPUs there! I also love vim, and use vim mode on Colab editor. And I also love Vimium, and I simple cannot browse without it. The problem is: Although the vim editor on Colab is almost good enough, there is no way to…
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Vimium interfering with HTML after removal

Until last week I had the Vimium extension installed in my copy of Google Chrome. Vimium inserts some HTML and JS into pages I view to work. I've never had any troubles with this up until recently. I run a Django development server for my job and on…
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How to Remap a Key to Another Key in Vimium

I'm trying to remap the f key to another key on YouTube in Vimium because it conflicts with the full screen native shortcut. Ideally, it would only work for YouTube and/or other video player websites, but, at any rate, I'm trying to understand why…
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Disable Vimium in Chrome w/ shortcut?

How to disable / enable Vimium in Chrome with simple keyboard shortcut? Trying to avoid using the mouse. :) For example, in Vim for Visual studio, the entire Vim can be toggled on/off with Ctrl+Shift-F12, handy in Chrome where some pages have…
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Remapping multiple keypresses in Vimium

I am trying to use vimium to simulate a list of vimium keystrokes unmap 9 unmap 0 map 9 fswfsw map 0 fswfaw so if I type ‘9’ in Chrome, it should activate vimium by typing ‘f’ ’sw’ ‘f’ ’sw' My use case is that I am watching videos using a Kaltura…
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Why does Vimium become unresponsive after yanking in Chrome?

In chrome, vimium becomes unresponsible after yanking, no keys seem to work. What could be the reason? I was expecting being able to resume work, tried esc, visual mode, searching etc. basically all the vimium commands. Regards,
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Flutter for Web. Url launcher links not "clickable" by vimium

I've made a flutter "page" with some simple links. If i build for web and open it on Windows with Chrome with vimium plugin, vimium can't find any links to click. Any idea how do i change it to be clickable by vimium? import…
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How can i use duckduckgo bangs with vimium?

I'm using chrome with the extension vimium and set duckduckgo as my default search engine.It's really useful to get search results with duckduckgo bangs.But I can't use that through vimium's vomnibar.Is it possible to combine?
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Is it possible to create tabGroups in Chrome via Chrome extensions?

As per this article, I'd like to go a step further and programmatically create tabGroups in Chrome. Is this possible via Chrome extensions? Many thanks
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How to move by one character without highlighting in Vimium?

In Vimium, when I want to copy-paste text, I search the string with /mystring ENTER. Then I go into visual mode with v, where I can move around with h,j,k,l keys. However, when the search ends up at the middle of a string, I'm in trouble, because I…
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