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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by RMPR on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:52AM (#23698178)
I use both QuteBrowser and Firefox with Vim Vixen, one of the thing that make me reluctant to switch completely are mostly addons, Multi-Container, cookies auto delete, ublock origin, Privacy Badger, ... I can't browse the Internet without those, and the built-in adblocker of QB is unfortunately not that performant. Also, you can't use the keyboard everywhere (thanks to the modern web) Random example off the top of my head: https://questions.wizardzines.com/event-loops.html
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by The-Compiler on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:42AM (#23699294)
> and the built-in adblocker of QB is unfortunately not that performant

With "performant", I assume you mean "how well it works", not "how fast it works"?

FWIW a better adblocker is in progress: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/5317

> Also, you can't use the keyboard everywhere (thanks to the modern web) Random example off the top of my head: https://questions.wizardzines.com/event-loops.html

Yay... You can always customize the hints.selectors setting to add selectors for those (for websites you use a lot).

There are also some thoughts on how to add hints to all elements with a JS click handler, but I haven't had a chance to take a closer look yet: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/4817

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by RMPR on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:39AM (#23699651)
> With "performant", I assume you mean "how well it works", not "how fast it works"?

Exactly, sorry, not a native speaker.

> Yay... You can always customize the hints.selectors setting to add selectors for those

Didn't know about that, thanks

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:10PM (#23704568)
The way I use qb is I've switched javascript.enabled to false, and occasionally session-enable it for some sites (by default, this is done by typing tsh)

I have also written off a portion of the web as not being worth mytime, however.

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