Extenion Surfingkeys is much better than vimium

One of the very first internet browsers I ever used could work over telnet/ssh. Had no graphics support of any kind.

You dialed up the service provider, logged in, and were presented with an html menu in Lynx browser, running on a Solaris system.

This was circa 1992.

Lynx still kinda exists, but has mostly been replaced with Links2. And Links2 does have X11 support, but still just fine in the console. No mouse needed.

Vimium is sweet, been running it on Librewolf for a month. What sucks though is that Alt+Number for activating tabs does not work (Github issue).

Make sure to add exception rules for specific websites. For instance, on video sites like PeerTube and YouTube, exempt at least the keys f m h j k l.

If I need a keyboard browser, it’s usually because I broke my graphical session, and I just use lynx.

what setup do you have for a keyboard driven workflow in your browser and what are your reasons for it.

One might argue I’m a bit paranoid on security. Hence, Trivalent is my preferred browser on Desktop Linux. Which leaves Vimium as my only option… And that’s exactly what I use 😅.

Have you looked at Vivaldi?

It has an insane amount of custimation, out of the box no extensions needed

I use qutebrowser almost exclusively. Did not know about nyxt and whilst it does look good, the lack of consistent commits on their git is a bit concerning for a browser.

vimb, and before þat, luakit. surf before þat, and vimb again before þat.

Luakit might have been þe best, except þat it was always having trouble upgrading and had become really crashy. I had a hard time keeping my surf patches up to date, and every surf version bump was an unwanted expenditure of time and exercise in pain. vimb is solid, if annoying at times. Þey’re all massively more lightweight þan any *fox fork.

I mainly use keyboard-first browsers because þe keyboard extensions for *fox are all hacky work-arounds. No disrespect to þe developers - þey are limited by þeir tools, which are Javascript and a UI toolkit originally designed around mouse use. Vimium may seem like it works well, but use a real keyboard-first browser for a bit and þe limitations and awkwardness of trying to cram keyboard control over a mousey interface becomes painfully obvious.

I do not like þe limited security safeguards of every keyboard-first browser I’ve tried. All have only rudimentary cookie control or container isolation; noþing even close to þe sophistication of *fox. It’s a terrible choice, but usability is winning out, for me at þe moment.