If you want to leave feedback, you can do so by either sending me a message via email, XMPP or via IRC. Next post: Distraction free writing in Vim with Goyo.Previous post: How to automatically hide your mouse cursor.I’m perhaps way too spoiled with the most polished Vi-like web browser out there. I find all the features and the somewhat massive graphical user interface rather distracting.Īnd even if I have some issues with the web engine, it does get the job done, and I guess that I can’t use anything else than qutebrowser after all these years with it now. Once installed, Mouseless Browsing adds a number next to every link. I simply don’t need or want all the shiny bells and whistles that a ‘modern’ web browser like Firefox comes with. The Mouseless Browsing add-on for Firefox lets you do just about everything using only your keyboard. While I still dislike QtWebEngine, the good old trusty web browser qutebrowser simply makes the interaction with the web a lot more enjoyable for me. When you press v, you’ll activate Vimium’s visual mode.

Dubbing itself as The Hacker’s Browser, the plug-in kind of works like a command-line text editor. While addons like Vimium can make it less worse, Firefox will always be a worse alternative for any serious keyboard user. Vimium is a free Vim-based mouseless browsing extension that is actually one of the most popular for many. When you restart Firefox after youve install the extension, you will notice. There’s no addon that can possibly fix that. In these situations, you need the Mouseless Browsing 7 extension (Figure 4).

Firefox isn’t designed to be used only with the keyboard.

I really like the minimal user interface with qutebrowser, it only shows you the essential elements and information, in the least distracting way possible.

The graphical user interface is a bit too overwhelming.

3) Press Enter or Return to 'click' on the highlighted element. If you typed correctly, the hint will be highlighted. This will show hints for every link, textbox. How it works: 1) Press the comma key (,) to start.

There’s also no way to copy the website title with any keybinding. The Keyboard Navigation extension allows you to browse the web without using a mouse.

A Firefox addon Mouseless browsing has been built just for this very purpose.

There’s no way to access the bookmarks via any keybindings. Pentadactyl is a free browser add-on for Firefox, designed to make browsing more efficient and especially more. On Firefox, you would have come across times when the icons on your Addon.

And it gets old rather quickly when you’re forced to do this a billion times per day. This forced me to move my right hand over to the mouse, and then click on any dead area on the website to be able to use the keybindings.

The addressbar in Firefox stole all the focus all the time.

While I could use keybindings for a lot of things, unfortunately, some basic things didn’t work at all.

The Vimium addon is a good addon (for what it is), but it’s simply not good enough for me. It took me about a week before I was back with qutebrowser again. Back in August, I wrote about how I was tired of QtWebEngine and that I was switching to Firefox with Vimium to emulate a similar mouse-less workflow.

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