mouseless (and vim’ish) firefox

November 11, 2006

Today I will bring vim to your Firefox, enabling you to use h/j/k/l instead of the arrow keys for moving around at webpages.

  1. Install the keyconfig extension, which gives you the possibilities of changing the standard Firefox-shortcuts.
  2. Install the “functions for keyconfig” extension, which enables you to use keyconfig to configure scrolling.
  3. Go to Tools -> Keyconfig and find the options named f4kc_ScrollLeft, f4kc_ScrollLineDown, f4kc_ScrollLineUp and f4kc_ScrollRight, and set the shortcuts to h, j, k and l – respectively

Restart Firefox and you can enjoy the freedom of surfing the vim way.

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