I’m a bit late to the party, but I’d like to mention Vimium. It’s a browser extension (chrome and a firefox port) that creates vim-like hotkeys and injects them into every page.
Scroll with “hjkl”, search with ”/”, jump tabs and bookmarks with “T” or “B”. My favorite command is “f”, which puts a little box with letters next to everything clickable on the page. Type the letters and it clicks the element.
I’d estimate I use the mouse for browser navigation about 20-30% of the time. The activation energy for learning to use “f” in particular was very low, because it was almost immediately a better experience than using the mouse.
On Firefox I’d recommend tridactyl if you want more features. Though it definitely has a steeper learning curve. So if tridactyl seems overwhelming you might as well use Vimium which has all the shortcuts I use ~98% of the time.
I’m a bit late to the party, but I’d like to mention Vimium. It’s a browser extension (chrome and a firefox port) that creates vim-like hotkeys and injects them into every page.
Scroll with “hjkl”, search with ”/”, jump tabs and bookmarks with “T” or “B”. My favorite command is “f”, which puts a little box with letters next to everything clickable on the page. Type the letters and it clicks the element.
I’d estimate I use the mouse for browser navigation about 20-30% of the time. The activation energy for learning to use “f” in particular was very low, because it was almost immediately a better experience than using the mouse.
On Firefox I’d recommend tridactyl if you want more features. Though it definitely has a steeper learning curve. So if tridactyl seems overwhelming you might as well use Vimium which has all the shortcuts I use ~98% of the time.