Audience

Individuals looking for a lightweight vim-like web browser to improve their browsing activities

About Vimb

Vimb is a fast and lightweight vim-like web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine and the GTK toolkit. Vimb is modal like the great vim editor and also easily configurable during runtime. Vimb is mostly keyboard-driven and does not distract you from your daily work. If you are familiar with vim or have some experience with pentadactyl the use of Vimb would be a breeze, if not we missed our target. Enable visualization of some runtime settings. Allows controlling the website access to the notification API. it’s modal like Vim. Vim-like keybindings, assignable for each browser mode. Nearly every configuration can be changed at runtime with Vim-like set syntax. History for ex-commands, search queries, URLs. Completions for commands, URLs, bookmarked URLs, variable names of settings, search-queries. Hinting marks links, form fields, and other clickable elements to be clicked, opened or inspected. SSL validation against the ca-certificate file. user-defined URL shortcuts.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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API:
Yes, Vimb offers API access
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fanglingsu
fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/

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