extension for Chrome: Vimium

[Thorin]

I'm a keyboardist, I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse whenever possible.  I keep tearing tabs out of Chrome to have them open in a separate window, to make it easier to find certain tabs.  So I went looking for a keyboard shortcut to do just that, pull a tab out of Chrome into its own window.  Then I came across Vimium: http://vimium.github.io/ and https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/README.md.  Here's a video on how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67Sn0RGK54.  Holy smokes that looks fast to navigate a page with just keyboard shortcuts!

Anyway, I'm gonna give it a try and hopefully remember to update this thread in a few days to say whether it was worth it or not.  I hope it doesn't get in the way of the keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs.

[Darren Dirt]

SWEET!

to quote the .MD file ... "like Vim editor, but for web browsing" yeah I can get behind that idea.

[Mr. Analog]

I loooove sites that bake in keyboard navigation / functionality

tumblr: j,k,l is like 90% of how I use that site

[Thorin]

Pressing f or shift-f to get keyboard shortcuts (letter combos) for all the links on the page is cool, I just wish the letter combos were more predictable.

[Thorin]

Hmm, open source. I may just have to crack that code open and see how it creates the shortcuts, see if I can improve the ordering or at least get it to stick with the same letters for the same links on the same page.