Ctrl T, Ctrl T, Ctrl T, Ctrl T.

Bang, we got 4 tabs in firefox. Tabs are so addictive in firefox. Normally i would have like 20 tabs or so at any one time.
Lifehacker recently reviewed another tab management extension.

http://lifehacker.com/5123708/tabhunter-adds-faster-tab-switching-to-firefox

I say, nar, not good enough.
I’m using vimperator. http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator

It is my favourite firefox extension which i think i can’t live without now. It is based on the concept of vim keybindings. Love VI/VIM? Vimperator is the extension for you in firefox.
Let me have a run down on how this firefox extension improved my life, increase productivity and basically makes me the master of my browser. Vimperator allows basically mouseless browsing.

I’ll try to do a screencast probably over the weekend.
Let’s do a rundown on the basic functionality that i love about vimperator.
1. How can i open a new tab? Press “t www.google.com”. It auto expands to :tabopen www.google.com, with a total of about 12 characters i can open up the google search page, without even touching my mouse! Without vimperator, probably you need to press Ctrl T, F6, www.google.com ?
2. How can i switch to another tab? CTRL-TAB and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB? Yeah, with vimperator. you press “b”, you will get a list of the tabs that are open, like in vim buffer. For example, if you have gmail in one your 40 tabs, you can press “b gm” bingo, you jump to the gmail tab if there is only a tab with the words gm.
3. How to copy the current URL location? Press “Y”
4. How to close the current tab? “d”
5. How to unclose the last tab? “u”

I use to use mouse gesture in firefox. Why bother now to use the mouse gesture to open tab and jump to the keyboard to type the url? Down left-> close tab, Down right -> unclose tab?

Oh for godsake, give vimperator a try. You will love it, take a look at this screencast done by Jean Paul

http://blog.jpboodhoo.com/VimperatorTeaserScreencast.aspx

Though it’s a bit confusing on that screencast, it has some basic information. Hopefully i can do a better one.

Look out for my screencast and another post on yubnub
Another “extension” to firefox.