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Reviews for Vimium

Vimium by Phil Crosby, Stephen Blott

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  • by Firefox user 14505999, 6 years ago
    Excellent addon that allows you to remap all keys (essential). BUT. The reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I recently fell onto a bug while browsing cpubenchmark.net and I had to switch to Vim Vixen :( To replicate the bug, go onto that site and search something pressing enter. Then start a new search... problem! Until this bug is fixed I can't give this the 5 stars it deserves :(
  • by Firefox user 14375851, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13287805, 7 years ago
    Great addon. I don't know why "X" doesn't work anymore and it restores the wrong tab in my Firefox (61.0.1).
  • by Firefox user 12944474, 7 years ago
    In / find mode when input Chinese that the first letter have bugs
  • by Firefox user 12438325, 7 years ago
    this extension is great but please fix the page yanking
  • by Firefox user 13438911, 7 years ago
    Please fix URL yank.
  • by Leo, 7 years ago
    excellent experience in chrome, but there's problem I met in firefox, when I was using vimium in websites which open each selected result in a new tab, the annoying warning that "firefox prevented this site from a pop-up window" was always there, and if I disabled the pop-up blocker from setting, with once vimium shortcut typed, the same two tabs were opened. I think it's probably a bug with vimium, because if I click the link directly instead of using vimium, all these problems above disappear.
  • by timvisee, 7 years ago
    Brilliant plugin! Mostly what I expected from such plugin, so that's awesome.

    The only problem I'm having though, is that Vimium does not work on the new tab/blank pages (and probably on some other pages too) in Firefox.

    I'll change my rating to 5 stars for sure when this minor issue has been fixed.
  • by Firefox user 13570206, 7 years ago
    Mostly love this extension. I wish I could hold down backspace when searching without the backspace causing me to go back a page after I have deleted all the text from the search box.
  • by Lương handsome, 7 years ago
    Love to have this production-ready
  • by Firefox user 12899006, 7 years ago
    Works well for me on 57. Fairly seamless substitute for my old (unsupported) favorite, VimFX. Most commands are identical, but it still needs a bit of work.

    Would also request that Search default to the omnibar instead of an overlay.

    - newTab seems to turn off vimium-ff
    - Esc should return to page content
    - needs optimization

    But... very glad this is moving forward! Many Thanks!
  • by Firefox user 13470238, 7 years ago
    1. yf Copy a link URL to the clipboard not working
    2. not functioning in some url, such as https://bangumi.bilibili.com/anime/6463
  • by GammaFunction, 7 years ago
    Addon port is in progress, I hope it continues! I *would* like regular expression /searching more than anything else that's missing, but I'm patient.
  • by nongthaihoang, 7 years ago
    Good but not enough. Lack of elements focusing such as mouse hovering.
    And I have to use my mouse to place the cursor before entering visual mode to select text.
  • by Firefox user 13430278, 7 years ago
    It's perfect for a port in progress.
  • by xxjohndifoolxx, 8 years ago
    one key misses : a key to restart firefox ! useful when you have some addons that needs to reload FF when activated or some bugs inside webpages
  • by Firefox user 13265629, 8 years ago
    it's really sad the support for VimFX will stop and now I have to use this one. It's ok, although it needs some work. Here are some suggestions:

    - in VimFx, i can re-map every key. I especially miss the re-mapping of the generated Huffmann Tree Link-Codes, since I don't use a QWERTY-Keyboard.
    - VimFx had a clean and simple representation of the Link-Codes, this one has some weird shadowing going on. It's minor, but yeah.. I like my things clean and simple
    - If the focus in on the URL-Navigation Bar, I can't use Esc to focus the website content
    - Closing Tab (x) does only work if a website is open. When I open a tab, it goes to about:blank and i can't close it. However, it closes if I go to it manually. Kind of weird behaviour.

    positive things:
    - Link-Codes don't overlap, very useful on reddit
    - the Navigation Bar showing Up on O is awesome!
  • by ronjouch, 8 years ago
    Good! The only nit for my usage is, as remarked by another commenter, the inability to open links in new tab, which depends on enhancing a WebExtensions API: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/2510

    Note this is VimFx-like (simple and unobtrusive), it does *NOT* has Vimperator's bells and whistles.
  • by Jesse Lin, 8 years ago
    The addon has a lot of promise, but compatibility with Firefox 57+ WE still needs work. It's often buggy. Things like Shift-F open in new tab doesn't work. I hope as developers get things worked out with Mozilla and the new APIs many of these bugs will be resolved.

    The main issue right now is the inability (as far as I can tell) to customize keybindings.
  • by bsnsk, 8 years ago
    Very promising extension!

    With one question:
    why is it disabled on addons.mozilla.org?

    New: Not working on news.google.com!

    Update: Sorry I did not describe this properly. It is actually shift-f that does not work, and it seems it is a problem of Firefox WE API. Thanks for your great extension!

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    > why is it disabled on addons.mozilla.org?

    It seems Firefox simply does not run extensions on this site. There's nothing we can do.

    > New: Not working on news.google.com!

    I cannot replicate that. It works fine for me. Perhaps you accidentally added an exclusion rule; check the options page.