An introduction to "Why Use Vimium" and how to install it in your browser of choice. Though this entire course uses Chrome, Vimium is also available for Edge and Firefox. There is a lot that Vimium can do — on-page navigation, moving between tabs, interacting with links and other page elements, and much more. We'll get into all of that in the following lessons.
9 lessons
Get Started with Vimium
Transcript
[00:00] The Vimium Chrome extension is one of my favorite tools that I have in my tool set. It's an extension that I have in Chrome, although it's available on Edge and Firefox as well, that I use to navigate and do all kinds of things in the browser without necessarily having to reach for the mouse. Now it's not a big deal to have to reach for the mouse, but sometimes I just get into a bit of a flow or a bit of a rhythm and it's nice to just keep my hands on the keyboard. Before getting into keyboard shortcuts and all of the other features that Vimium has to offer, which are coming up in subsequent lessons. Let's first look at installing Vimium.
[00:37] So I've opened this separate Chrome profile where I don't have Vimium yet installed, and I've gone to the Chrome store where I can find the Vimium extension, and I'm gonna add it to Chrome. This gives me a prompt where I'm being let know about the different permissions that Vimium is allowed to have. And I'm going to add the extension. Now it pops up here under my extensions. I'm going to ignore the turn on sync and just close that.
[01:06] Let's go back to the Vimium homepage and then let's go under the extension drop down here and pin Vimium. Now it's appearing as gray, indicates that it's not working, and I think that's just because we need to reload the page. So I'm going to hit Command-R, and now it turns blue. On any new page that I were to go to, such as a Google search, we would see that it's appearing blue as installed and I can you know start using some of the different features which we'll get into in the upcoming lessons. So you should have it installed now and get ready to see what Vimium can do.