Vimium C

Visit Vimium C on Chrome Web Store

A Customized Vimium having Chinese support, global Commands and injection functionality, in C-style code for better speed and less resource cost. It supports Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers whose core versions are >= 35, and partly supports latest Firefox.

This project is developed by gdh1995 and licensed under the MIT license.

An old name of this project is "Vimium++", which has been given up on 2018-08-21.

The branch basic-on-edge is able to run on lastest Microsoft Edge, though some function are broken because Edge always lacks many features. This extension can also work on lastest Firefox, but there're still some errors.

In the weidu directory is another project - a customized 微度新标签页.

Project Introduction

Vimium C:

a Chrome extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the Vim editor.
forked from philc/vimium:master.
customized after translating it from CoffeeScript into JavaScript.
add some powerful functions and provide more convenience (for me, at least ^_^).
here is its license and privacy policy

微度新标签页修改版 (Modified X New Tab Page):

visit it on Chrome Web Store
in folder weidu
support Vimium C and provide a vomnibar page: chrome-extension://hdnehngglnbnehkfcidabjckinphnief/vomnibar.html
- using this vomnibar page, Vimium C's memory cost will be smaller since Chrome 58.
一款基于Html5的Chrome浏览器扩展程序。它提供了网站快速拨号、网站云添加、数据云备份等功能来增强 Chrome 原生新标签页（New Tab）；另外微度还提供了：天气、云壁纸、快速搜索等插件，为用户提供最快捷的上网方式。
微度新标签页: www.weidunewtab.com; X New Tab Page: www.newtabplus.com.
its official online version supporting multi browsers: www.94994.com.
selected only one language: zh_CN.UTF-8.
some is customized.
the official settings file is OK for it, but not the other way around.

Other extensions supporting Vimium C:

PDF Viewer for Vimium C : a modified version of PDF Viewer from PDF.js

Known issues

These issues are only up to the master branch:

Chrome before version 49 has bugs in Window.postMessage if the flag #enable-site-per-process is on, which breaks Vomnibar. Then Vomnibar would only work well on Vimium C Options pages.
the Chrome flag #enable-embedded-extension-options has a bug about dialog width on high-DPI screens, which can not be worked-around before Chrome 42.
If a page in another extension is the preferred Vomnibar page, and the extension is disabled in incognito mode, Vomnibar might break in such a situation, and there seems no way to detect it. So Vimium C has disabled other extension Vomnibar pages in incognito mode.
If a http/file/... Vomnibar page is preferred, then there're some cases where it breaks, such as on some websites with very strict Content Security Policies (CSP), so users may need to wait about 1 second to let Vimium C retry the inner page. And before Chrome 50, such vomnibar webpages won't work because of Chrome lacking some features, so Vimium C will use the inner page directly.
Chrome 58 stable hides some necessary infomation of page's selection, so some commands on VisualMode cann't work as expected if editable text is being selected. This Chrome feature/bug has been removed since version 59, so Vimium C works well again.
Chrome does not apply content settings (at least images) on file:// URLs since version 56. Currently, no effective ways have been found (up to Chrome 69).
On sandboxed pages without an allow-scripts permission in their CSP, HUD will always be visible in order to solve some issues from Chrome 52 to 67. This issue has been fixed since Chrome 68. But before Chrome 52, all functions of Vimium C will be broken.
Chrome 64 and 65 always clean their console logs if only Vomnibar is opened, and there's nothing we can do for it. Chrome 66 fixes it.
Chrome 69 disables requestAnimationFrame on some sandboxed pages, so Vimium C can not scroll them smoothly. This issue has been fixed since Chrome Dev 70 (up to 2018-09-07).

Release Notes

1.72:

fix broken UI on some pages using a global flex layout (the key CSS is html { display: flex; })
- this problem only occurs since Chrome 70, so it seems a bug of Chromium browsers.
be able to read the system clipboard since Firefox 63.
VisualMode: support cursor movement on <input type=number> correctly
make usages of command count consistent, for removeTab, removeRightTab, reloadTab, moveTabToNewWindow and togglePinTab
add a dark theme of Vomnibar, and use gn to toggle it
search engines: support default URLs when a query is empty
custom CSS: now can specify styles for FindMode HUD and Vomnibar, and live preview any changes
VisualMode: <f1> to flash selection area
help dialog: support customized key mapping names and descriptions

1.71.3:

fix broken code on Vimium C's background process
a few bug fixes and improvements of FindMode and VisualMode
Firefox: fix Vomnibar UI and broken FindMode
vimium://show now supports history actions and stores history data safely and secretly

1.71:

use Google, instead of Baidu, as the default search engine, for non-Chinese users
LinkHints: always match all links under Shadow DOMs
LinkHints.activateModeToOpenImage / vimium://show#image : try to auto parse higher-res image URLs
VisualMode: rewrite all code and make commands cost much less CPU and energy
redesign the whole message + build systems: smaller code size
fix lots of regressions and edge bugs
now can run absolutely safely on all malformed HTML webpages, and avoid potential crashes or dead loops
inject Vimium C into other extensions: auto reload content scripts when Vimium C updates to a new version

1.69.2:

fix that Vomnibar often shows and disappears on reopening
fix that some web pages can not be scrolled without a click
fix the functionality of syncing with the cloud which is broken for a long time
fix some old bugs of the options page

1.69.0:

FindMode: \w means to enable whole-word searching
- now it ensures search results to match regexp queries, so \bword\b will work well
fix that Vimium C could not scroll on some pages
- some of scrolling failures are because of a bug of Chrome 69, which will be fixed on Chrome 70
LinkHints: fix that the drawer menu hides unexpectedly on google docs
fix that visitPreviousTab breaks if some new tabs are not visited yet
LinkHints: add focus mode and hideHUD switch
limit command count: must between -9999 and 9999
fix that it might break some pages in case Vimium C got disabled suddenly
fix many edge cases

1.68.2:

rename this project into "Vimium C"

1.68.1:

Vomnibar: fix a broken feature of editing HTTPS URLs
Vomnibar: always show type icons instead of type letters (even before Chrome 52 or on Firefox and MS Edge)
- (for advanced users) custom Vomnibar page: update version limit to 1.68.1
Note: Vomnibar uses Shift+Delete to delete history/tab items (the old Shift+Enter is just a typo)

1.68:

tons of small fixes and updates making it easier to use
fix the broken sync feature, which didn't work if only key mappings / exclusion rules were changed
now LinkHints auto exits if typing in an text box when IME is enabled
Vomnibar: sort only by last visit time if a query is just like .pdf or .html
Vomnibar now shows the https:// prefix of such URLs on its input box
Vomnibar now supports Shift+Delete to delete history and tab items, just like what Chrome supports on omnibox
local marks: now remember a url's hash part and recover it if nothing to scroll
fix that Scroller might fail to scroll some areas
detect IPv6 hosts in URLs correctly

1.67:

Now most commands support negative count, and '-' is used to begin a negative count.
4 global shortcuts: support count again; support maps like shortcut createTab position=end
redesign the Vomnibar: new type icons, translucent on blur, clear on high DPI, and smarter
Now focusInput can select text, and auto exit when a current input loses its focus
rewrite Marks: all changes made in incognito are invisible to normal pages and not persistent
rewrite LinkHints to support much more strange pages
parse url-in-text shared from Baidu Net Disk; add vimium://avg to compute math average quickly
fix tons of bugs, including that settings can't be exported on Chrome 65
fix that LinkHints couldn't click targets before Chrome 41
fix many crashes on old versions and rarely-used flags of Chrome

1.64.1:

global shortcuts support count prefix and custom options
for some options, show possible errors when they're saved
unhook click listener to be more compatible with web pages if they're totally excluded
fix that Vomnibar flickered when switching tabs
avoid throwing tons of errors on console of a sandboxed page
fix some issues about Vomnibar before Chrome 58

1.64:

fix that Vimium C didn't work on some websites or with some libraries, like Angular Material, Zeplin and CKEditor 5 (1.0.0-alpha.2).
fix that omnibox "v" mode might not work when meeting some types of input
Vomnibar is now translucent if blurred
fix a bug that a real <f1> was mistakenly translated into <ff1>
For some IMEs like Chinese, Vomnibar cuts all single quotes if input is composing in the middle of text
add some new small features and fix found bugs

1.63:

FindMode and VisualMode will ensure document is selectable when they are active
always focus the parent frame and show a yellow border when touch & hold <esc>
fix bugs and memory leaks on pages having ShadowDOM UI.
passNextKey normal will also exit if the page blurs
rename command LinkHints.activate to LinkHints.activateMode (the old keeps supported)
LinkHints.activateMode supports option action=hover/unhover/leave/text/url/image
change behaviors of some commands like parentFrame and focusInput
Vomnibar now prefers a domain starting with "www."
now custom CSS takes precedence over default styles like the help dialog's
limit max length of Vomnibar's query to 200 chars
perfectly support pages which are zoomed by themselves: better LinkHints and focusInput
fix some other bugs

1.62.0:

on an editable rich text iframe box: <Esc> will not focus the upper frame unless it's held on
image viewer: support <c-+> (also <c-=>) and <c--> to zoom in/out images
fix vomnibar may shake on the list's length changing
fix a rare case that some web page may break because Vimium C's code throws errors
fix a regression that some tips on HUD were missing
fix a long-term bug that history cache may not be cleaned out when some history items are removed

1.61.2:

fix some regression bugs

1.61.1:

fix new UI bugs on Chrome 61
fix that content settings commands didn't work on some special URLs containing port or username info
on most pages, it will focus a parent frame to press <Esc>, if the current is an iframe and nothing is focused or selected
re-enable supports on about:blank iframes
FindMode has a safer HUD

1.61:

rework Marks so that local marks work on websites on which cookies are disabled manually
- in Marks.activate, old local marks are still supported
- WARNING: but Marks.clearLocal won't clear old local marks
- the stored data of local marks is not compatible with Vimium any more
completely fix Vomnibar flickering on showing and hiding
WARNING: add a version limit to the preferred Vomnibar page
- please use <html data-version="1.61"> to tell Vimium C the page's version
- if your custom page has no such a tag, it will be replaced with the inner one at run time
- its styles have changed a lot, so old pages need comparison and updates before adding version attribute
loosen limits on URL format validation: accept unknown 3-char TLDs in more cases
- now "http://example.aab" is valid, although "example.aab" is usually not (unless it has occurred in history)
allow "custom key mappings" to override Vimium C's default mappings without an error message
LinkHints supports a new mode "Open multiple links in current tab" and f-<Alt>-<Shift> will activate it
add a new shortcut vimium://status <toggle | enable | disable | reset> to enforce a new status on the current tab
- you may use it on Vomnibar / Chrome Omnibox
- the popup page has an improved UI and you may also use new buttons on it to do so
Vimium C now tries its best to re-enable key mappings on some special child iframes using document.open
- if the whole page is reopened, Vimium C can not know it directly, so please eval the new vimium://status enable URL to enforce a new "enabled" status
improved performance: now Vimium C UI shows faster for the first command on a page

Building

If you want to compile this project manually, please run:

npm install typescript@next
node scripts/tsc all
#./scripts/make.sh output-file.zip

gulp local can also compile files in place, while gulp dist compiles and minimizes files into dist/.

Thanks & License

Vimium C: Copyright (c) Dahan Gong, Phil Crosby, Ilya Sukhar. See the MIT LICENSE for details.