Vim Vixen
Accelerates your web browsing with Vim power!!
Vim Vixen: Accelerate Your Browsing Experience on Firefox
"Vim Vixen" is a Firefox add-on that brings the powerful and efficient browsing strategies of Vim to your web browser. Users can control their browsing experience using VIM keys for navigation, tab management, scrolling, console access, and more. This add-on even offers functionality to manage histories and directories, make use of link following, zoom in/out, copy URLs, and enable/disable the add-on as per the user's wish. Vim Vixen essentially evolves your browser to be keyboard-centric, providing a seamless and accelerated web browsing experience.
Add-on stats
Manifest V2
By: Shin'ya Ueoka
Rating: 4.65
(267)
Weekly download count: 66
Firefox on Android: No
Permissions:
- history
- sessions
- storage
- tabs
- clipboardRead
- notifications
- bookmarks
- browserSettings
Size: 1.19M
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description
Source: Firefox Browser Add-ons
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated.
Pros
- Provides Vim like controls to web pages
- Quick navigation via 'f'
- Great for most sites
- Recommended for vim/neovim users
- Better than Vimium C
Cons
- Adds a big white bar at the bottom of the screen on many sites
- Does not support buttons with JavaScript events
- Doesn't work as expected on basic sites like duckduckgo
- Some users experienced it as non-functional
Most mentioned
- Big white bar issue
- Desirable 'visual mode'
- Global enable/disable options
- Vers. 1.2.4 available on Github
User reviews
Breaks websites with massive white bar on bottom of page that blocks/hides content.
by Gibbi, 2023-09-27
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Vim Vixen requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood
Vim Vixen has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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