These are OK-ish, but they both only work for links that have text in them. They can be a nice speedup in some cases but they can’t replace the mouse altogether.
I see the difference now, thanks. I’ve tried this kind of extension before, and one issue I had was that i had to press the shortcut, wait for the popups on the screen, and then type the letter(s) in the popup. In contrast, with the built-in ones, I can start typing without having to wait.
Came in to post this. It works well for my purposes, but as pointed in other replies, limited.
I love my PaperWM, like the OP mentions. (Actually, precisely today I was able to switch my work computer from Windows to Linux and now I have PaperWM everywhere.)
BTW, apparently, this is how blind users roll. If it doesn’t work well with keyboard navigation, likely it sucks for blind users. (But of course, good keyboard navigation does not imply good accessibility for the blind.)
I’ve had good luck with https://www.qutebrowser.org/ although it might be a bit minimal for some. Definitely doesn’t have all the FF features. Its default bindings are somewhat vim-like, but you can rebind.
Yeah, QuteBrowser out of the box seems better than Firefox, but last I checked it doesn’t have uBlock Origin, so the overall experience was a pretty significant step back for me. Maybe if LibreWolf goes down the tubes I’ll give it another look.
If you want to go mouseless in Firefox but aren’t a vim user, Surfingkeys is quite good: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/
Firefox has two of these out of the box:
/for “quick find” and'(single quote) for find a link (when you hit enter it navigates to the link found).These are OK-ish, but they both only work for links that have text in them. They can be a nice speedup in some cases but they can’t replace the mouse altogether.
I see the difference now, thanks. I’ve tried this kind of extension before, and one issue I had was that i had to press the shortcut, wait for the popups on the screen, and then type the letter(s) in the popup. In contrast, with the built-in ones, I can start typing without having to wait.
Came in to post this. It works well for my purposes, but as pointed in other replies, limited.
I love my PaperWM, like the OP mentions. (Actually, precisely today I was able to switch my work computer from Windows to Linux and now I have PaperWM everywhere.)
BTW, apparently, this is how blind users roll. If it doesn’t work well with keyboard navigation, likely it sucks for blind users. (But of course, good keyboard navigation does not imply good accessibility for the blind.)
I’ve had good luck with https://www.qutebrowser.org/ although it might be a bit minimal for some. Definitely doesn’t have all the FF features. Its default bindings are somewhat vim-like, but you can rebind.
Yeah, QuteBrowser out of the box seems better than Firefox, but last I checked it doesn’t have uBlock Origin, so the overall experience was a pretty significant step back for me. Maybe if LibreWolf goes down the tubes I’ll give it another look.
Since v2.0 it has a built-in adblock, which has been good enough for me. See Q8 in the FAQ
Thanks for the link! Surprised I hadn’t heard of this extension before. This seems like a more extensible vimium? Any downsides?