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dgquintas
There's also vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
eeZi
And cVim: https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

Now how do they compare?

thameera
As a long time cVim user I've found out that 99% of my browsing can be done with its scroll up/down and open link features.

When combined with this switch to recent tabs extension, the mouse becomes almost irrelevant: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggle-switch-rece...

b3n
Vimium has the `visitPreviousTab` built in for toggling between two tabs.
patrickjson
There is something like this in Surfingkeys,

B - Go one tab history back F - Go one tab history forward

drops
Surfingkeys has a couple of features over cVim that I really like:

-pressing '?' on any page will open the list of shortcuts

-searching through bookmarks / history ('t') is prettier

-very useful feature of switching through all the current open tabs with link hints ('T')

There's one shortcoming I noticed, however, is that when you go to the link hint mode, there are no indication than you entered it. On cVim there's a "follow link" notice in the lower right corner.

I'm a fairly casual user though, someone else will probably find more differences and pros / cons for each extension

shakeel_mohamed
I LOVE the scroll with j & k, it's smoothest scrolling experience I've ever seen!
jlgaddis
I've tried a bunch of these "vim-like" plugins and I always come back to Vimium (on Chrome). On Firefox I'm stuck with Vimperator, which means I don't use Firefox very often.
darkr
Why so? Firefox is still my browser du jour mainly because of Vimperator. I also use Vimium when in chrome, but Vimperator is way more powerful, and plugins are trivial to write: https://vimpr.github.io/plugins-en.html
scns
you should check out VimFX for firefox, its modeled after Vimium but i like it even better.
eloycoto
Does someone know if there is a Firefox fork?
lordfoom
Pentadactyl is great, but you'll have to find the signed xpi.
darkr
Pentadactyl is EOL. Vimperator is still being actively developed..
lordfoom
I think that's an assumed EOL on Pentadactyl because of Electrolysis. The devs don't talk but the community is trying to come up with a way to continue. Vimperator has similar issues with Eloctrolysis, I think?

I hope pentadactyl makes it, cos it's my favorite of the vim extensions. Vimperator just doesn't feel as advanced.

wooger
They're both about the same, but vimperator is more frequently updated for compatibility with new Firefox versions.

That alone is much more useful for me.

tremon
For me, I'm tracking Firefox esr anyway, so I don't get hit with incompatibility that often.
snaky
How does it compare with Pentadactyl?
ramblenode
I tried Pentadactyl and Vimperator before settling on qutebrowser. It's just fantastic and worth checking out if you're in the market for a keyboard-driven browser.

https://www.qutebrowser.org

lordfoom
I'm on pentadactyl and loving it, but haven't heard of qutebrowser - what made qutebrowser stand out for you, if you don't mind me asking?
Sir_Cmpwn
What got me to make the switch was that it wasn't Firefox. I got so fed up with Mozilla's bullshit that I went looking for anything else, especially after they broke all of my custom addons. Qutebrowser ended up pleasantly surprising me.
mercer
For another approach to power-tooling your browser, have a look at Gleebox (http://thegleebox.com/). I use it constantly to navigate between pages, to get a readable version of the page (!read), and to switch between tabs using a fuzzy-search approach. On some sites I've even added custom jquery-based selectors to quickly navigate around the pagfe.