 One of the most frustrating things for me is my never-ending search for the perfect web browser I guess it just doesn't exist. I'm always changing web browsers I've got like half a dozen installed on my system at the moment. I I've probably tried I don't know 12 15 different web browsers in the last few years and the one I like the most and the one I'd probably use full Time if I didn't do this YouTube channel is cute browser cube browsers. Fantastic. It's Chromium based. It's fast It's it's really nice. It's keyboard driven. It's got Vim like key bindings So it's really nice minimal, you know, not a lot of window decorations and you know Superfluous stuff on the screen. I really like cute browser But the problem with cute browser is it doesn't really had have ad block and or at least it doesn't have a proper ad block So occasionally ads do play and I can't be recording my browser Which I'm often doing and having banner ads displayed any kind of animated stuff going on, you know Animated ads. It's not a good look. It's not a professional look So what I've been using here lately, especially for recording video is using the brave browser because brave of course has ad block built In brave is also a chromium based browser and it's really nice I really enjoy the brave browser, but I kind of miss cute browsers them like key binding So this morning what I've been playing around with is Vimium Vimium the hackers browser It's a plug-in that's available for both Chrome browsers and Firefox based browsers So pretty much every web browser known to man. Well, I guess not Safari, but who the hell uses the Safari browser But this should be able to be installed on most mainstream web browsers And what this does is it gives you those Vim like key bindings you're used to so when it's turned on You know gg would go to the top of the document and capital G would go to the bottom and you could use J and K to navigate There's J down K up if I wanted to Find a link I could do F and then we get all the Links here the hints for the links So if I wanted to go to this first link here Vimium the hackers browser that heading the hint for that is W So if I do W, you know, I would go to that link You know, we actually clicked on it and we go to that section of the page GG back to the top of the document here now, of course right now I'm reading the read me for Vimium over on github. So the source code for Vimium is on github It's free and open source software. It's licensed under the MIT license For those that want to go to the Vimium proper front-end of their website. It's Vimium dot github dot IO Of course link to all of this in the show description Well, it's a blinding white page though But it's really nice their homepage because on the homepage They give you some of the most common key bindings right here on the homepage So I mean typically that's probably what most people are going to get right if you're going to the Vimium homepage You want a install link and they have the install link for chrome and Firefox or the key bindings And they have all that right here on this very Short little page. So I kind of like that information Of course the read me goes into much more detail because there's far more key bindings than what are shown on the Vimium website And by the way, I can actually navigate the tabs, of course with the keyboard instead of using the mouse like I just did I believe there's two different ways to navigate through the tabs You could use capital J capital K for up and down which are really going to be left and right through the tabs So if I do a shift to J capital J, you know, I'll move back shift K moves forward in the tabs shift K Again moves forward one more time if I wanted to delete a tab X would delete the tab another way to navigate the tabs is the traditional Vim like bindings that many Vim plugins use which is GT to navigate through tabs So GT would navigate through the tabs that direction G capital T would navigate through the tabs in the reverse direction One of the really neat things with Vimium earlier. I deleted a tab by doing X on the keyboard now Capital X shift X would undo that closed tab So hey that tab I closed earlier and got out of the way I want it back just shift X will bring up that last tab that I closed So I know a lot of people like to keep a million tabs open, you know But with this feature you don't have to do that you can get rid of them You know just X to get rid of all the tabs You're not currently needing and if later you realize. Oh, you know what? I need some of them tabs back capital X So that you don't need That's really drives me insane I don't know how people have so many tabs open because that bothers me Especially if you're navigating through the tabs because you've got so many open that you really don't use But maybe that's just the boomer in me You know, obviously I was using web browsers before tabs were even a thing to search through a page It's the same as in Vim. So if you do a slash You get a little search prompt and then slash and then what are you searching for? I'm gonna search for the word Vimium on this page because I know it's here a bunch of times And then I'm gonna hit enter and then just like in Vim to navigate through the search results You can do in for next so that's the next instance of Vimium That's the next and the next and capital N would go in reverse order through the search results If you want to get some help information, what you can do is do the question mark So hit question mark on the keyboard and you get the Vimium help Which is just a quick list of some of the most common key bindings You can click show advanced commands here and get an even bigger list here And when you're done with this list, you can do the question mark again It gets rid of it and goes back to the page that you were viewing before you asked for help Very similar to what I was used to in cute browser Oh on the keyboard is open a URL or a bookmark So if I hit oh on the keyboard and then start typing for something, maybe I want to go to Odyssey Let me go to Odyssey. That's how we do that. So oh gets you the prompt to go to a URL Capital O would do the same thing except open that in a new tab rather than the current tab So maybe I didn't want to go to Odyssey or I'm done with Odyssey I want to go back, of course shift H and shift L go forward and back or actually H is back L is forward In your history. So if I do shift H capital H, I'll go back to that page shift L would go forward back to Odyssey shift H Goes back standard Vim like key bindings that many Web browsers that use them like key bindings if you've ever used cute browser if you've ever used suckless surf They of course rely heavily on hjkl for similar Navigation functions. So let me do capital O on the keyboard and I want to go to duck duck go if I can spell it correctly Of course, capital O opens that of course in a new frame and what I can do I'm already in insert mode so I could search for something You know, I could search for distro to if I wanted to do some kind of vanity search here I'm duck duck go, of course, you're already in insert mode But if I hit escape, I would no longer be in insert mode And that's where I could use my them like key bindings like f if I wanted to click on One of the other links on the page if I want to get back into insert mode though I of course gets me back into insert mode and from here Well, I could tab to get back in there into the search block or I could just click on it And then do a quick search and from here I wanted to go ahead and complete that search for distro tube And then I get the search results I get f to get the the hints for the links And maybe I wanted to go to the get lab for distro tube It looks like capital P clicks that link and of course it opens it here I actually that was not the right link. That was my YouTube channel for that link Let me go back. Well, of course shift H goes back I want to delete the tab again X and X and X and X If I wanted to bring them all back shift X shift X shift X shift X shift X Shift X one more time. Very cool stuff. I'm really digging vimium. I've only been playing with it for a couple of hours this morning There's some customization options you can do you can actually change some of the key bindings and things once you get into the settings It's not crazy customizable. It's not like a vimp configure anything. There's just a little bit of stuff You can do to it. I've used vimium before this was not the first time I've tried it out I've tried it out two or three years ago. I played with it a little bit I've played with three or four different vim like plug-ins for these kinds of browsers for chrome and firefox Vimium Tridactyls another popular one there. There's three or four of them that have some some good popularity Vimium is probably the most popular I would say At least it seems to be the one that gets talked about the most I highly recommend you guys try out vimium Especially if you're a vim user and you're used to vim like navigation and all of your programs check out vimium If you're on a chromium based browser, it's in the chrome extension store Those of you running firefox based browsers look for it in the firefox add-on store now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode absy delis gay blue Mitchell Allen a commie arch fit for 30 choke David The other David Dylan Gregory Lewis Paul Polytech star Steven Sven Wesson Willie These guys are my steered patrons over on patreon without these guys this quit look at the vimium chrome extension It wouldn't have been possible The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well all these names You're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors I'm just sponsored by you guys the community if you like what I do consider supporting the channel look for distro tube over on patreon All right guys Peace I wonder if there's an emacs like plug-in