Firefox

Configuration

• Last visited tab with Ctrl-Tab — Go to about:config, and set browser.ctrlTab.previews to true [1].

Keyboard shortcuts

• Keyboard shortcuts on mozilla.orgP

Alt-Shift

Access key. Eg. Alt-Shift-F to go to search box in MediaWiki

Extensions

Candidates

Extension I might install in the future:

• Extension to suspend tabs. ! Careful, this may lead to loss of work if you typed text in a form and the page gets suspended

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dormancy/
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/auto-unload-tab/

penta.dactyl

penta.dactyl is an add-on that turns Firefox into a powerful vim-like browser.

Installation from source (on Firefox 48)

• See also detailed instructions at http://5digits.org/coding
• Get source from github:

git clone https://github.com/5digits/dactyl.git

• Make project

cd dactyl/
make -C pentadactyl xpi

• Then in Firefox, go to add-on tab, and select install .xpi from file located in dactyl/downloads.

Installation

• First disable add-on signature policy. Go to [about:config] and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
• Download the latest nightly build and install it

I installed pentadactyl-20160121.xpi on Firefox 44.

• Restore add-on signature policy

Usage

• See :help for quick help
• f show hints and follow a link.
• y current location.
• p paste new location.
• H L history back/forward.
• ^n ^p next / previous tab.
• Tip! Type ^v twice to paste text in text field (to go into passthrough mode).
• :mkp to save current configuration

Customization

I prefer to use ^j ^k to go to next/previous tab, like I do to navigate between buffers.

:map -builtin -description "Next tab" <C-j> <C-n>
:map -builtin -description "Previous tab" <C-k> <C-p>
:mkp