Vimium is a browser extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the Vim editor.
Installation instructions:
Install via the Chrome web store or the Firefox Addons 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 ?.
Navigating the current page:
? show the help dialog for a list of all available keys
h scroll left
j scroll down
k scroll up
l scroll right
gg scroll to top of the page
G scroll to bottom of the page
d scroll down half a page
u scroll up half a page
f open a link in the current tab
F open a link in a new tab
r reload
gs view source
i enter insert mode -- all commands will be ignored until you hit Esc to exit
yy copy the current url to the clipboard
yf copy a link url to the clipboard
gf cycle forward to the next frame
gF focus the main/top frame
Navigating to new pages:
o Open URL, bookmark, or history entry
O Open URL, bookmark, history entry in a new tab
b Open bookmark
B Open bookmark in a new tab
Using find:
/ enter find mode
-- type your search query and hit enter to search, or Esc to cancel
n cycle forward to the next find match
N cycle backward to the previous find match
For advanced usage, see regular expressions on the wiki.
Navigating your history:
H go back in history
L go forward in history
Manipulating tabs:
J, gT go one tab left
K, gt go one tab right
g0 go to the first tab
g$ go to the last tab
^ visit the previously-visited tab
t create tab
yt duplicate current tab
x close current tab
X restore closed tab (i.e. unwind the 'x' command)
T search through your open tabs
W move current tab to new window
<a-p> pin/unpin current tab
Using marks:
ma, mA set local mark "a" (global mark "A")
`a, `A jump to local mark "a" (global mark "A")
`` jump back to the position before the previous jump
-- that is, before the previous gg, G, n, N, / or `a