The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.
*NOTE* Google does not allow Vimium to run on this Chrome Web Store page and the Chrome New Tab page, by design. Sorry about that!
*NOTE* Chrome has some alarmist messaging around the permissions that Vimium needs to run. Really all it's asking for is that Vimium's javascript be loaded into every page. Don't be alarmed. Vimium never talks to any servers and does absolutely nothing with your data. Read the open source code if you're curious.
For more information about rebinding your keys and how to use many of Vimium's features, see here: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/README.md
Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>, <a-x> for ctrl+x, meta+x, and alt+x respectively.
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
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
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
t create tab
x close current tab
X restore closed tab (i.e. unwind the 'x' command)
T search through your open tabs
Additional advanced browsing commands:
]] Follow the link labeled 'next' or '>'. Helpful for browsing paginated sites.
[[ Follow the link labeled 'previous' or '<'. Helpful for browsing paginated sites.
<a-f> open multiple links in a new tab
gi focus the first (or n-th) text input box on the page
gu go up one level in the URL hierarchy
Vimium supports command repetition so, for example, hitting '5t' will open 5 tabs in rapid succession. ESC (or <c-[>) will clear any partial commands in the queue and will also exit insert and find modes.
Release notes, see:
- https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Latest reviews
- (2024-05-19) Aarav Kumar: This should take all over the internet.
- (2024-05-16) Benoit Mrejen: I keep reinstalling and uninstalling every six months because of several user-unfriendly issues. It interferes with Youtube (and other sites) shortcuts. Once you install this, you lose many Youtube shortcuts like the "f" for fullscreen. It's impossible to have links activated by default. You have to hit "f" every single time you want to click. Hitting f again does not make the lables disappear, it makes you follow a link instead. You cannot hit a link by typing its innerText. If a link reads "hello", I should be able to access it by typing "hello". Good idea, poor implementation. This app creates more problems than it solves.
- (2024-04-29) Reddy Lee: Loved it. But not working in PDF, hypothesis.io either.
- (2024-03-30) tabliqat chi: Funny how `Shift + F` is mentioned nowhere neither in your web store description and nor in your ? help page!
- (2024-03-07) Juan Carlos Vallejo: Vimium 2.0.5 Chrome 122.0.6261.111 (Build oficial) (64 bits) in web.whatsapp.com not work yf
- (2024-02-22) Egor Uzhanin: THIS IS COOL
- (2024-02-03) Yuri C. L. Paiva: Primeiro comentário que escrevo para uma extensão, simplesmente maravilhoso!
- (2024-01-09) Farzad malmir: For anyone who loves working with Keyboards and loves to be pro!
- (2023-11-25) Bernard van der Merwe: I'm brand new to vim-like navigation and its a very fun experience! One thing I would like to see is a key to disable shortcuts temporarily. Like a toggle. For example on YouTube I would still like to use the shortcuts for video playback, but also have the ability to interact with the page via vimium. Awesome tool none-the-less! Really like it
- (2023-11-08) Ravi Lacombe: This is one of the best and most useful extensions ever made. Love it.
- (2023-11-06) 周一一: nice thought and great work!
- (2023-11-04) Luka Jeftic: Amazing tool that I use everyday.
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- (2023-10-21) yu sherlock: It's pretty well on my computer. But as a Nvim connoisseur, I wonder whether it can be improved. For example, I don't need to remember the position of tabs to switch among them, just a partial name as in Nvim. Also it lacks the ability of moving the current bar to the rightmost, close all the tabs except this tab, close all the tabs right to the current tab, et cetera. I think it's good, but it absolutely can be perfect.
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- (2023-10-10) Tomek Ogórek: I love it! Hard to live without Vimium.
- (2023-10-05) Jordan Mackie: Absolutely love it. Doesn't get in the way, makes it very easy to disable it in the places you don't want it, and really does speed up navigation. Sometimes I forget that shortcuts I use aren't just part of chrome when I use someone elses laptop! To the reviews saying it recently broke (and for the devs): there is an error in the console around trying to parse the config file and failing. Inspecting the code, it looks like you tried to migrate from a different config format to a new one, and it's causing problems for some users. tl,dr: if it suddenly stopped working for you recently, just reinstall, It fixes it :)
- (2023-10-05) Jun Hiki: If you love vim, you'll love vimium.
- (2023-10-05) terii w.: Not sure what the devs did... but absolutely DOES NOT work anymore. See "All Vimium keys are enabled on this page." message but it's just completely broken. Uninstalled.
- (2023-09-21) Leon Williams: Thank you for this fantastic extension. I would just like to request an option for enabling the HUD in normal mode instead of only in insert mode, as I'd rather show normal mode and hide insert mode.
- (2023-09-11) 정진우 | 전자컴퓨터통신공학과 | 한양대(서울): Numbers 1~9 is not working in "Google remote desktop" application.
- (2023-09-09) Ivan Galin: Оно настолько великолепно, что без него работать в браузере уже не удобно. Мне очень нехватает его в Safari...
- (2023-09-03) Asim Nasar siddiqui: it is very helpful.
- (2023-08-31) Max Nvt: Awesome, thank you!
- (2023-08-04) meriot: 다크모드 감지기능이 왜 없니? 게을러 터졌네
- (2023-07-29) Martin Wittgenstein: Amazing keyboard helper for the Chromium-based, I can't live without it!
- (2023-07-28) Yi Wang: Incredible!
- (2023-07-22) Павел Стебенев: Это просто великолепно, нет слов...
- (2023-07-17) Gabriel Hoffman: perfeito
- (2023-07-15) Ruslan Konev: Amazing!
- (2023-07-11) Артур Лагунов: Best plugin for Chrome,very usefull. But hotkeys dont work on google home page.
- (2023-07-09) ayre wu: 2023.7开始,按x关闭标签页间歇性出现问题,按1次没用,按2次直接把2个标签页一起关闭
- (2023-07-07) Alex Bolgov: based
- (2023-07-05) Gino chen: 回不去了
- (2023-06-29) Igor Lerinc: Wow, Amazing. This is a must for every developer out there. It really removes pressure of always needing to use mouse. Like you have option to navigate faster with Vim keybindings, as natural way of using this. You can code faster, and check browser, if you just need simple scroll here and there on your docs etc. You don't need to reach mouse like a maniac, so you can save your hand and wristles from RSI as It really helps to remove hands from mouse when not needed (or keyboard as well, but this makes it easier)
- (2023-05-26) Younes Mdarhri Alaoui: Love it so far
- (2023-05-25) Johannes Innerbichler: One of the most useful extensions in Chrome.
- (2023-05-19) Billy Liu: Works well, improves my productivity and flexible customizations to chome. I just need help finding where I can pay or donate, it's well deserved.
- (2023-05-11) Иван Велинов: Its awesome!
- (2023-05-09) Peter O: Trop bien, juste dommage que Google le laisse pas fonctionner sur certaines pages Google. La fonctionnalité pour naviguer sur tous les boutons d'une page avec F est incroyablement bien aussi
- (2023-04-27) Olle Hellgren: Speeds up browsing when you can navigate links without taking your hands off the keys.
- (2023-04-24) Robbe Claessens: Awesome!
- (2023-04-24) amordo: I still use classic win keybindings in the editor but can't imagine life without vim layout in browser. Awesome experience. Moreover it can be considered as a productive path to jump into Vim.
- (2023-04-20) Atticus Sebastiani: I can use my editor with just my keyboard, and my terminal, and my desktop, this just completes things.
- (2023-04-07) Alex Pena: This thing is amazing. Saves you time and your hand! After using it, I've noticed my hands don't hurt/feel as uncomfortable as they did. Makes me wonder if I've been using the mouse wrong since I don't even need it as much anymore. I only wish there was a version that worked on programs other then chrome. Other then that, what are you waiting for? You won't regret using it! Unless you like using the mouse, then it might not be for you.
- (2023-03-27) Takuya Red: PCでも便利なのは違いないが、スマホOSでブラウザをPCライクに使いたいとき、Androidでkiwiやflowなどchromiumベースの拡張機能ありブラウザを使ったにしても、画面の小ささが難点となっていた。vimiumは物理キーボードを使えば画面の小ささというスマホ・タブレットのディスアドバンテージを解決できるかもしれない。その点をぜひ評価したい。
- (2023-03-25) David Gutiérrez: This extension is incredible!
- (2023-03-22) Avishay Zawoznik: This used to be fantastic, but recently hitting "f" shows less keyboard shortcut labels on the screen than what it used to show in the past. It's not that the links are not available, it's just that the labels are somehow hidden. Would be happy if they could fix it, since this is the main feature I've been using...
- (2023-03-17) John Smith: It's good, but I wish there was a way to customize what shows up with the Vomnibar. I do not like my history popping up every time I type in an url. I have the feature disabled from my browser, but this extension still insists on showing me my history every time.