Tue Oct 6 21:55:07 BST 2009
Firefox is a widely known browser these days, and I use it on pretty much all the machines I have. One thing that has always annoyed me about it, though, is the amount of screen real-estate it dedicates to browser buttons and menus at the expense of the content of the web page one is viewing. On a big screen such use of space isn't a concern, but on e.g. my 1024x768 laptop it is rather intrusive.
Thank goodness, then, for vimperator, a Firefox add-on which gives FF a modal interface with keybindings in keeping with the (marvellous) vim text editor, and has the fringe benefits of getting rid of the vast majority of the browser chrome into the bargain.
Indeed, the only fly in the ointment would seem to be vimperator's inability to manage keyboard-driven scrolling for Microsoft's msdn site -- apparently this is due to MS's use of scrollable divs on that site