Vimperator: Use Firefox the Vim Way

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 12, 2010

“Want to take full keyboard control of Firefox? Tired of having
to mouse around the Web? Firefox has a good set of shortcuts by
default, but if you want to go completely keyboard-driven, take a
look at Vim-inspired extension Vimperator.

“Vimperator is an amazingly complete add-on for Firefox that
gives you access to almost all of Firefox’s features from the
keyboard. It takes its inspiration from the popular vi-clone Vim,
so many of the keybindings will already be familiar to you if
you’re a Vim user. Even if not, Vimperator provides a great way to
ditch the mouse and control Firefox from the keyboard.

“The Vimperator extension is available from the Mozilla Add-ons
for Firefox site. It should work with current releases of Firefox,
the current 2.2 release of Vimperator works with Firefox 3.5
through 3.6.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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