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Surfing the web using only the keyboard

For quite some time I have been feeling frustrated every time that I need to move my hands from the keyboard to use the mouse. When surfing the web this usually happens all the time.
Today however, I found a cure to this frustration, it is spelled Vimium.

Vimium is an extension to Chrome that lets you surf the web using only your keyboard. Those of you that are familiar with Vim - the editor - will feel right at home. Others will learn the keys quite quick. And if you find yourself wondering which key that does what, just type '?' and Vimium will display a help splash screen with the most common keys and what they do.

Vimium will let you scroll, click links, select and copy, etc just using your keyboard. To me this is big relief and I really recommend that you give it a try.

Visit the Vimium homepage

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