Vim for Firefox

Tridactyl is a Firefox extension to enable vim key bindings for a more efficient browsing experience.

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Modes

• Normal mode
• Hint mode
  • Enter with f
• Visual mode
  • Enter with v, ;h, /
  • Search via s, S
  • Exit via Esc, <Ctr-[>
• Command mode
  • Enter with :
  • Exit with Esc, Enter
• Ignore mode
  • Pass through key events
  • Toggle with Shift-Insert, Ctrl-Alt-Escape, Ctrl-Alt-Backtick, Shift-Esc

Normal mode

Scroll with h, j, k, l.

Go to top with gg.

Got to bottom with G.

Go back in history with H and forward with L.

Use . to repeat the last action.

Open new tab with t.

Open hinting mode to open tab in background use F (use f to open it in same window).

Focus first textbox on page with gi. Switch textboxes with tab.

Useful commands

Bring up list of tabs with b. Use Tab, Shift-Tab to cycle through them.

Open web pages:

• w open in new window
• o in current tab
• t in new tab
• Use capital letters to open current URL
• s search
• start search query with search engine like duckduckgo, or google.

Use yy to copy current URL.

Use p to open clipboard content as a webpage. Use P to open in a new tab.

• Quickly search for source of a quote with ;p to copy a paragraph and P to search it

Use zi, zo, zz to zoom in, out, and to reset zoom.

Search with /. Navigate through matches with Ctrl-g, Ctrl-G.

Use Ctrl-v to send next keystroke to website.

To check what a binding is doing type :bind [keys].