(I'm one of the authors) Love seeing this on HN today! It seems to get some front page attention every couple of years. Thank you everyone for the encouragement!

Related: last week I published a very similar extension, but for Google Sheets. https://github.com/philc/sheetkeys

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for your work on Vimium. I have a lot of RSI issues from using a mouse and Vimium has been incredibly helpful in mitigating those.

I think it's fair to say that between Vimium and a windows manager on OSX I've cut my mouse actions by 90%.

Your work has had a profoundly positive impact on my life and I'm very grateful.

I'm in a similar boat with RSI; Vimium is a huge help to me. What do you use for a windows manager?

I use Divvy as it was the only one I found that had the ability to scale up to larger number grids. https://mizage.com/windivvy/

You can see the rest of my ergonomic aids here: https://twitter.com/mbuckbee/status/1463598464252665866

- Kinesis Freestyle split keyboard tented and then tented even more with slanted yoga blocks

- 4K monitor/tv to show multiple screens to reduce alt-tabbing

- Magic trackpad mounted on a cellphone stand on the left of my keyboard (I'm right handed). This lets me use my non-dominant hand and requires less arm movement.

Amazing, thank you for sharing!

Thank you for your excellent work! I have some RSI issues and try not to use the mouse as much as possible. Vimium helps me avoid wear and tear every single day. I love it and install it immediately on any new Chrome instance.

(I am about to use it to press the "reply" button to submit this comment. It's fantastic.)

This is cool!

Do you have any plans for a Google Docs extension as well? Or do you mostly get by with Vimium there?

You crushed it Jez! I wish we could work on more projects together.

It was a great experience! Thanks for your code reviews and mentorship :)

Not sure I'll have much time to work on OSS in the foreseeable future, but it would certainly be nice to work together again.

Thank you both. I have been minimizing mousing after injuring my shoulder. Vimium is a godsend to me

The five of us who built this spend a lot of time reviewing code each day and thought it should be less depressing and more fun. Let us know if you have improvement ideas, or even better, pull requests on Github. Thanks, and enjoy!

I wrote this for TextMate. Not nearly as good as built-in support, but I program 10 hours a day with it and it's saved me millions of keystrokes. https://github.com/philc/textmatevim

I wrote LiveCSS for this purpose.

https://github.com/ooyala/livecss

It's far simpler in that it just reloads your CSS continually. We use it all the time at Ooyala to put our favorite text editor and a web browser side-by-side and hack away.

Ooyala in Mountain View. http://www.ooyala.com/about/careers

For those who really want "TextMate + vim", until the newer options mature, you can try this.

https://github.com/philc/textmatevim

Additionally, try typing fewer characters when you cd in the general case: https://github.com/philc/fuzzycd

I've been using this for a few years and it's been a joy.

Won't CTRL+T (or CMD+T) open a new tab and focus the URL bar?

In addition to escape, link hints (type "f") also work on that [x] button.