Vimium 'O' does not work.

Fortrikka

As of right now Vimium Chrome does not work at all

Abdullah16M

Working in vimium (tyirvine's version) & surfingkeys (chrome version):

Hints ('f' in vimium & surfingkeys)
This is a pretty good start. This feature is one of the most important and it's working
Navigation between tabs (Basically like cmd+shift+]/[)
Also important and working.
Omnibar (in both)
Although it can't retrieve tabs icons
Retriving the url of the current tab + editing it
Vim editor in surfingkeys (This feaure is exclusive to surfingkeys)
Maybe I didn't expect this to work 🙂
Closing a tab
Duplicating a tab

Bugs:

History navigation

History backward/forward (Basically like cmd+]/[)
If you can fix something go for this one and point 2
Reopening the most recent closed tab
Also related to history navigation like point 1

Keep in mind that vimium and surfingkeys have problems with point 1&2 but it is capable of showing history in the omnibar

Page manipulation

Scrolling (using J/K or D/U/E) is a bit laggy (especially in surfingkeys, may not be a bug)
Hints doesn't work sometimes (exclusive to vimium)
Occurs if you go backward in history and try to use hints (you will have to reload the page)

Others

Retriving tabs icons
This is important in cases like tab switching (instead of reading the text you just look at the icon of the tab)

I wish to contribute but I don't program (at least not currently), for those who want a good experience surfingkeys works better in orion than the others.

The most important bugs are 1 & 2 (which are related to history) + 3 (which may be the easiest to fix)

heisznberg

Latest update should have fixed lots of bugs related to Vimium, according to changelogs.
I am currently using the extension and collecting feedback, which I will post shortly. There are plenty of features not working properly yet.
Updating this comment soon with a full report

williamt

shebg626 "So far everything except moving back and forward in history seem to work, but Orion alreay has keyboard shortcuts for that."

This is my experience as well - although occasionally I've had Vimium stop working midway through a browsing session (e.g. 'f' does nothing) until the tab is reloaded.

Vimium's (capital) H and L not supporting back/foward in history (like cmd-[ and ]) is the main annoyance for me now. It feels like this should be one of the easier bugs to fix.

For what it's worth, Orion works incredibly well for me now (on desktop and iOS), so I'm sticking with it, unlike a couple of past attempts where I gave up and went back to Safari / Firefox.

Fortrikka

williamt It's unreliable still and shift-f doesn't work, and it does not recognize the current tab properly, vimium may still be operating on another page instead of the currently focused one, and there are still some unoptimizations that lag the extension on some websites.

xji

I don't see anybody mentioning this, though shift+T doesn't seem to work properly for me. Upon pressing the key for the first time on any new page, the omnibar overlay shows up, but doesn't have focus for some reason. I have to click on it for it to get focus, or click anywhere else on the page to dismiss it (since Esc doesn't work either without it being focused). After this, further attempts at shift+T on the same page always works properly.

It seems to be the same for similar functionalities that use this overlay, e.g. shift+O.

Edit: I also tried tyirvine's version though it seems to have the same issue.

heisznberg

xji You're right, there are many more bugs other than shift+T

eti

Hey there, just wanted to recommend the extension called Vimkey: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimkey/eeeandejdamjifbgmmmmonggidbccnnj
Even though it's been a while (3 years https://github.com/Haojen/vimkey) since the source code hasn't been updated it works just fine when installed as a chrome extension!

heisznberg

eti thank you I will try it 🙂

Jado

Sorry to necro this thread (though it's only been a few days). The VimKey extension does NOT work as a replacement to Vimium. There are a number of keyboard combos for which Orion seems to take precedence, including X (capital — open closed tab), J/K (capital — move between tabs), etc.

I realize this is a niche plugin, and so it's hard to make it work. That being said, I have an alternate solution, which I outlined here: https://orionfeedback.org/d/10169-allow-full-customization-of-keyboard-shortcuts

YoussefElshahawy1

I just started testing out Orion, and honestly it's really nice seeing the effort being put into it.
My default for now is Zen, but Orion looks so nice and thankfully doesn't obliterate my battery.

Not having Vimium C is a deal-breaker for me though...
From what I read in the thread, there were some fixes merged on February.
Not sure if any thing changed, but the Vimium C extension (from the chrome store) is not working..

wayne

The main actions I would like to see implemented is Forward and Back in history. By default this is shift - h and shift - l in vimimum and they do not work in Orion.

evelant

A reasonably good solution that is more global is to use https://www.homerow.app/. It isn't as tightly integrated with the browser as the vim type extensions but it works OS wide and well enough for scrolling / clicking.

wayne

evelant

Thanks, I use that app, but as I said above I'm really looking to implement Forward and Back in the browser history, something that homerow.app doesn't support. Also, homerow.app doesn't work well with different key layouts, there has been an issue on the github repo for awhile, it looks like the dev is concentrating on his AI app now.

wayne

I was able to fix Vimum history commands by building a patched version of vimimum. I described the bug here: https://orionfeedback.org/d/12005-maximum-call-stack-size-exceeded-in-the-native-kagi-history-userscript

Should be fairly easy to fix on the Orion side.

heisznberg

wayne
god bless you. hopefully they will update it on their side

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