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A Customized Vimium having Chinese support, global Commands and injection functionality, in C-style code for quicker action and less resource cost.

It supports Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers whose core versions are >= 35, and supports most of the functionality on a latest Firefox (since version 64.0). If re-compiled from the source code, Vimium C is able to support Chrome 32.

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.

It can also run on MS Edge, though there're still some errors.

Vimium C:

• a web extension on Chrome and Firefox that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web, in the spirit of the Vim editor.
• add some powerful functions and provide more configurable details and convenience.
• here is its license and privacy policy
• the initial code is forked from philc/vimium:master on 2014.
• customized after translating it from CoffeeScript into JavaScript and then TypeScript.

Other extensions supporting Vimium C:

• PDF Viewer for Vimium C : a modified version of PDF Viewer from PDF.js
  • Visit it on Chrome WebStore
• Modified Weidu New Tab (微度新标签页修改版) : a modified, lite version of www.weidunewtab.com (or www.newtabplus.com )
  • Visit it on Chrome WebStore

1.76.2 (not released yet):

• fix a bug of parsing failures if a line in key mapping rules ends with the \ character

1.76.1 for Firefox:

• fix broken FindMode

1.76:

• add a new command closeDownloadBar to close Chrome's download bar at the bottom
• mapKey: now apply mappings for lower-case characters to every keys including it
  • for example, if mapKey f g, then <c-f> will be translated into <c-g>
  • also work in LinkHints mode (#39 (comment)), unless there's an option of mapKey=false
  • so if your IME is not English, you may map alphabets to the English versions (in Vimium C) using a list of mapKey
• LinkHints: now always search shadow DOMs and the related boolean option is useless and removed
• LinkHints: if press Ctrl in "text"/"url" modes, then it will copy multiple lines to the clipboard
• Vomnibar supports a new mode "bomni" in which bookmarks' priority is higher (#50)
• Vomnibar now shows a "tab tree" when in "current window tabs" mode
• now it can sync much longer (bigger than 8KB) key mapping list and search engines through the browser syncing service
  • all the synced data is still limited under 100KB
• in case you clean all browsering data, now it can recover most settings (at most 5MB) even if syncing is off
• now LinkHints and Vomnibar are faster
• partly work around a bug of Chrome 70+, which affects command toggleCS
• if the confirmation dialog is forbidden by mistake, then now a too large count will be treated as 1
  • the old behavior was to do nothing, which is somehow inconvenient
  • the dialog works again if you reload this extension, or just restart Chrome
• Firefox: fix a potential vulnerability in v1.75.7 and v1.75.8
• update some notes in PRIVACY-POLICY about which permissions may be removed safely

1.75.8 (only released on Firefox):

• LinkHints: smarter hinting and now <video> and <audio> are clickable
• on Google Docs, now can press <esc> for a while to move focus from document content to the window
• removeTab command now supports an option of goto=""/left/right/previous
• click listener watcher: fix a vulnerability in v1.75.7
• the options page won't be dark if the option "auto-dark-mode" is unchecked
• Firefox: the options page now shows a tip if the value of New tab URL has a mistake

1.75.7:

• LinkHints: add some new rules to exclude useless hints for container nodes
  • much smarter on Google search result pages
• a global dark mode for Chrome 76+ and Firefox 67+ is now enabled by default
  • include new styles for hint markers, HUD, options page and the help dialog
• Scroller: fix it might scroll too far in some cases (for example, a long page is loading) (#45)
• Scroller: fix a bug of losing current active elements after switching scrolling directions
• Firefox: fix broken FindMode (#48) and some other issues on pages with multiple iframes
• Firefox: fix LinkHints may cause scrollbars to show in some cases
• Firefox: now both auto-dark-mode and auto-reduce-motion can response to system setting changes
• goNext: stricter: not match long text

1.75.6:

• fix that Vomnibar can not acquire focus on the first activation on a new page since Chrome 75
• fix mapKey could not map a key of printable characters to <esc> (only fixed in the Firefox version)
• Firefox: fix LinkHints can not exit itself when clicking an <iframe>
• goBack command supports an option reuse=-2/-1 to open a previous URL in the tab history in a new tab
  • just like you Ctrl+Click / Ctrl+Shift+Click the browser's "Back" button
  • this feature can only work since Chrome 72, and currently not on Firefox

1.75.5:

• support prefers-reduced-motion and prefers-color-scheme media queries
  • be able to auto disable animation and enter dark mode when some options are enabled
  • enable the option "Auto reduce UI motions following your system settings" by default
• LinkHints: add a new option mapKey to translated typed keys to match marker text
  • use a subset of translation rules of Custom key mappings
  • require both sources and targets are single characters (can not map keys like <a-d>)
• LinkHints: by default, detect and use touch mode automatically since Chrome 48
• Vomnibar has a default style named mono-url. Remove it to switch monospace fonts for suggestion URLs
• fix that LinkHints and Vomnibar might fail to switch to other tabs
• fix more issues about passNextKey
• discardTab only discards those auto-discardable tabs which are marked by the browser if count is greater than 1
• vimium://show : upgrade the embed Viewer.js
• Firefox: fix that help dialog may fail to show in rare cases

1.75.2:

• use new icons
• exclusion: make passKeys take precedence over mappedKeys
• now mapKey can map any key to <esc> and map <esc> and <c-[> to others
• LinkHints/Scroller/Vomnibar: activate on a parent frame if needed
• FindMode: auto fill/search with selected text by default
  • a new option selected=false can prevent this behavior
• fix some bugs of passNextKey
• fix some rare edge cases on malformed webpages

1.74.9:

• fix scrollPx* commands might scroll too much
• popup page: add <a-x> and <a-z> shortcuts to toggle status buttons
• options page: show normalized exclusion rules after saving and fix some issues
• Firefox: fix some issues breaking Vomnibar

1.74.8:

• Vomnibar: make effects of the dark mode button not persistent
• Options page: normalize exclusions and link hints characters on saving

1.74.7:

• goBack, goForward: now works perfectly since Chrome 72
• add a command discardTab to discard tab(s) on the right (or left if count is negative)
• help dialog show AMO links on Firefox

1.74.6:

• BREAKING: now use s- to represent the ShiftKey is being pressed when constructing keys
  • e.g. <a-s-f>: just like using a-, c- and m- to represent AltKey, CtrlKey and MetaKey
  • if a key is one of function key, space and arrow keys, should also use s- (like <s-space> and <s-f12>)
  • an exception is when a key is a punctuation (is a single character and has no lower/UPPER forms)
    • in this case, use <a-#> and <c-+> directly
  • if only one of Alt/Ctrl/Meta is pressed, then ignore the CapsLock (just like what Chrome does), and a key can be translated into <a-s-f> only when the ShiftKey is pressed
• add an option to stop focusing new tab page and leave browser's address bar focused
• full-featured Firefox support (although Firefox has no "contentSettings" support)
• Exclusions:
  • passKeys always takes effects, even when a prior key has matched
  • passKeys supports <esc> and <c-[>
  • BREAKING: use "^" as a prefix of passKeys now means it's a whitelist of hooked keys
• LinkHints:
  • can simulate clicking the right mouse button (use an option of button="right")
  • can simulate touching the middle area of an element (use an option of touch="auto"/true)
  • in hover mode, can toggle class names of given HTML nodes (use toggle={".selector":"className"})
• Vomnibar: make max number of suggestions and query interval configurable
• goBack, goForward: now works perfectly since Chrome 72
• FindMode: focus found node on exit, for easier <tab> navigation
• add a command performAnotherFind to find the second or even eariler query in the query history list.
• Marks.activate supports extra 8 temporary marks besides the "last" mark, and uses 2 ~ 9 prefix to specify them.
• Scroller: a better default value of keyboard settings
• vimium://show : now auto decrypt "thunder://" URLs
• fix the broken option "Preferred Vomnibar Page"
• fix some typos about <a-c> and <a-t> in recommended key mappings
• fix the detection of fullscreen status on Chrome >= 71

1.73:

• now LinkHints can hint items using the .onclick handler
  • work well in websites like https://youpin.mi.com
• in LinkHints mode, press <a-f2> if some hint markers are covered by page content
• Vomnibar supports keyword/phase blacklist, and matched items are hidden except you type the keyword
• on Vomnibar, a perfectly matched domain suggestion may get auto selected
• on Vomnibar, query ":w" to search tabs only in current window (or use an option currentWindow)
• if an iframe is embeded dynamically and no exclusion rules found, now apply those rules of the top frame on it
  • for pages like https://docs.google.com
• w and e in visual mode now jump among words much more smartly
• Vimium C's blank page will also be dark if Vomnibar is in dark mode
• FindMode supports <c-j/k> to go next on a host frame
• fix broken togglePinTab
• Vomnibar fixes some UI issues including the wrong box shadow on Chrome 73
• fix issues when syncing settings
• fix lots of edge cases

1.72:

• fix that UI may break on some pages since Chrome 70.
• 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"

There're some known issues on previous or latest versions of Chrome, and please read https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Known-issues-on-various-versions-of-Chrome for more information.

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

npm install typescript@3.4.3
node scripts/tsc all
#./scripts/make.sh output-file.zip

gulp local can also compile files in place (using configurable build options), while gulp dist compiles and minimizes files into dist/.

The options including MinCVer and BTypes in gulp.tsconfig.json are used to control supported target browsers and set a minimum browser version.

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

• Vimium: Copyright (c) 2010 Phil Crosby, Ilya Sukhar. MIT-licensed.
• 微度新标签页: ©2012 杭州佐拉网络有限公司 保留所有权利.
• JavaScript Expression Evaluator (Modified): Copyright (c) 2015 Matthew Crumley. MIT-licensed.
• Viewer.js (Modified by gdh1995): Copyright (c) 2015-present Chen Fengyuan. MIT-licensed.
• TypeScript: and modified es.d.ts, es/*, dom.d.ts and chrome.d.ts in types/: Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation (All rights reserved). Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See more on www.typescriptlang.org.
• PDF.js: Copyright (c) Mozilla and individual contributors. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
• The Orange in icon is from https://pixabay.com/vectors/orange-fruit-mandarin-citrus-fruit-158258/