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Steps to reproduce:
Vimium seems to randomly be focused on a wrong tab and pressing "x" or "yt" closes or copies the wrong tab unexpectedly.
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Expected behavior:

That it will be in sync iwth the current focused page of the browser. There is also this issue on firefox as well.
Orion, OS version; hardware type:

Orion 0.99-125RC
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    7 days later

    Vlad You have to install vimium.
    Then after that cycle between many tabs and perss x. Now it will close a random tab and not the tab that you are currently in. And also, gt and gT do not work. THey are shortcuts ot to the next tab and the preivous tab.

      Merged 3 posts from Errant miscommunication between Vimium Chrome and current tab focus.

        I'm an avid Vimium user so I'd love if it got some attention, probably my biggest pain point in switching from Firefox to Orion. I could even sponsor this issue; I'd happily pay to be able to use it since I use it for accessibility reasons.

        One bug that hasn't been mentioned is that it seems like some options simply don't get applied even though they do get saved, but this is a bit inconsistent and sometimes the options do get applied for a while only to stop working later. Eg. changing "Characters used for link hints" mainly doesn't do anything for me, and no matter what I put in there it uses the defaults. Also changing "CSS for Vimium UI" doesn't seem to do anything most of the time (except sometimes it does, so one of my test profiles has massive red link hint boxes which I haven't been able to change back to the default yet. I'm not sure what I did differently.) It seems like often even if eg. the link hint setting actually does get applied when I change it, if I reload the page it'll go back to the defaults again.

        In general saving settings usually takes at least two presses of the "Save Changes" button before it indicates the changes were saved by changing the text to "Saved" and greying out. The Vimium logging URL (moz-extension://d7742d87-e61d-4b78-b8a1-b469842139fa/pages/logging.html for me but I have no idea if that UUID is just local or not) unfortunately shows no output, and the javascript console on that page has Failed to load resource: The operation couldn’t be completed. (Orion_RC.SchemeHandlerError error 2.) (same error in the main Orion version, just without the _RC) .

        This was tested with the Firefox Vimium-FF plugin (I'm relatively sure the Chrome version has the same issues, or at least I remember testing it out a while ago and finding no real difference at least at that point) and the latest Orion RC (Orion 0.99.125-rc (WebKit 616.1.22)) and latest main version (0.99.125-beta (WebKit 616.1.22)).

          subintercessor What makes this difficult for us is

          a) we are not vimium users so we do not understand the extension
          b) there are so many different things highighted in this thread so we do not know where to start.

          Can you summarize top three asks with clear steps to reproduce them?

            5 days later

            subintercessor I'm not much of an avid user, I just use the basic commands because I just want to hover the keyboard most of the time.
            I don't reallly relegate tons of time towards learning every niche of the things I use.
            But I do agree. I use the Chrome version and it's mostly broken except for scrolling up and down the rest of the functions break randomly so I don't use it much.

              Just tried vimium, vimium-c, and tridactyl. Unfortunately none of them currently work correctly on Orion.

              Install any of them, press f to highlight links, and observe that Orion cannot navigate to a highlighted link when the keys are pressed.

              I realize these are probably about the most complex extensions possible so it makes sense that they might not work while Orion's extension support grows.

              Vlad You should be able to pinpoint the issues by installing any of these extensions then attempting to follow their tutorials or use basic commands from their ? menu. I hope we can eventually get to a point where at least one of the vim extensions functions well. At least for me this is the last big thing missing from Orion.

              Just a guess but I think the type technical of people who want a vim mode extension are also probably some of the best potential contributors, so getting a vim extension working might attract more developers to Orion and increase contributions.

              • Vlad replied to this.

                evelant

                You should be able to pinpoint the issues by installing any of these extensions then attempting to follow their tutorials or use basic commands from their ? menu

                Respectfully, we do not have time to do this. There are over 300,000 extensions out there, imagine us debugging each like that with a team of three people, while building a web browser.

                What we need from the community is top three features of the extensions that you want fixed, with steps to reproduce each of them.

                  I totally understand & this style of plugin is probably a bit of a monster of quirks, this might not be the top three but the ones I think are the main problems:

                  Using Vimium (1.67) from Chrome Store:

                  1) This is the top priority issue: On any page you can press 'f' and a load of link hints will appear (loads of yellow boxes with 1 or 2 letters). You type the hint letters (they are shown in caps but it doesn't matter) and it'll navigate to that link. Mostly this works however: You now type 'H' to go back to the previous page. You type 'f' again. You just get the vimium ui showning a 'Collecting Hints...' box in the bottom right of the window but no hints appear. You generally have to refresh the page to get the hints to work again (but sometimes I have to reopen a new tab to get it working again). Minor related issue; typing 'F' (i.e. cap f instead) should open the chosen link in a new tab but it doesn't.

                  2) Type '/' should allow searching the page. It opens a search box in the bottom right corner - it should immediately take the cursor focus and allow you to start typing what you are searching for in the current page, press Enter and you should be able to press 'n' or 'N' to show cycle through the matches. Pressing Escape whilst typing in the search box will close the search box and take you out of 'search mode'. This kind of works but quite often the search box doesn't get focus, pressing Escape whilst typing in the search box doesn't close the search box and (albeit minor) the matched text selection boxes look odd.

                  3) I'm not sure what's the best to choose for 3 - it's either 'o' which opens up a search bar similar to 2 but it allows you to search your history and open the link - again it doesn't get focus and stops working when you go back. Or that 'x' and 'X' should close the current tab, and reopen the last closed respectively.

                    evelant ha with 1Password done this is the only thing stopping me from switching so I’m really interested in seeing it working - hope my 3 were similar to yours 😆

                    • Vlad replied to this.

                      kulehandluke "this is the only thing stopping me from switching "

                      You have no idea how many times I heard this. I only wish you guys didnt all have a different 'only thing stopping me from switching" as that would make our job easy, and not having 2000 open issues!

                        Vlad Yeah I can imagine it's frustrating from your side and a ton of work, everyone has their own entrenched workflows they've built up over the years. What you've got so far is amazing though, it's super fast and works well - just hasn't quite hit Kagi level for me yet. I'm not pushing anything my side, just pinging some money and waiting - it'll get there when it gets there. I really like what you guys are doing and wish there were more companies with similar philosophy.

                        2 months later

                        kulehandluke +1 on this selection of top 2 features for Vimium.

                        I love Orion (and Kagi search), but do miss having the f search functionality. I also really like (because it speeds up my workflow) navigating pages with vim keybindings (e.g. j for down, k for up, H for previous page, L for forward a page, gg to scroll to the top, etc...).

                        I recently updated to the latest Vimimum plugin (2.04) and can't seem to get it working right (on Orion 0.99.125-beta), so I've left it disabled for now and will wait. It was working for me on an older version (but I can't determine which one it was). I really appreciate all the hard and awesome work!

                          19 days later

                          kulehandluke I prefer using Firefox extensions because it's not owned by Google, and Google cannot interact with the code or modify it in any way with telemtry.

                          3 months later

                          Hi @Vlad hope you're doing well. Any luck replicating this with the steps provided by @kulehandluke ?
                          Do you need any more info to start debugging?

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