cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64994238

I wanted to ask your guys what setup do you have for a keyboard driven workflow in your browser and what are your reasons for it.

At the moment I am running Librewolf + Vimium. The glide browser is a good alternative but it does not have some features I like from Vimium.

Browsers:

Extensions:

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    32·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • alecsargent@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Thanks for the detailed response, and I agree with your take on extensions, I have been experiencing the myself. For now I want to test out those keybord driven browsers and that hopefully come with similar security defaults like Librewolf.

      What is the symbol you are using in replacement of “th”?