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Same here - I used qutebrowser exclusively for a couple months, but in the end I couldn't handle all the annoying popups and autoplaying videos in modern websites - all things that you can block with a single plugin in Firefox, together with ads. Too bad, because Vim plugins never allow full UI control in Firefox(e.g. closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins).

Recently I switched from Vimium to Surfingkeys, which is comparable but also offers an actual Vim emulator for text field input. Can definitely recommend it.

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>closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins

Well, strictly speaking Tridactyl can do this. They overwrite your empty tab with their own so Tridactyl works there too and you can 'd' the tab.

>closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins

ctrl+w (is default browser shortcut)

Oh well, I guess sometimes reading the manual is a good idea. Thanks for the tip.

SurfingKeys is my top 5 most useful pieces of software. I’ve heavily customized it to make my web browsing as efficient as possible for my workflow.

Check out my configuration to get some ideas of what you can do: https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf

Note that while I currently use Firefox, I haven’t yet added instructions on how to install my config there, which is different to Chrome due to lack of file system access permissions. Long story short, use the `gulp serve` task to start a server on `localhost:9919`, then point the SurfingKeys configurator there.

Try Vivaldi (chromium based browser with a LOT of settings). I had the same problem until I downloaded it, you can natively bind a key to close current tab, it will work on new tabs (and files)

I have tried Vivaldi multiple times, the last time it still had noticeable input delay and slow performance...but support for Philips Hue lights.

Not quite what I'm looking for. I've tried so many browsers and in the end I've always come back to Firefox.

Well if you ever get the urge to try again, try disabling hardware acceleration. It fixed that problem for me.

I get around this with qutebrowser by whitelisting JavaScript.

How do you do that on a per-domain basis?

I suppose looking at javascript sources and whitelisting by domain isn't impossible with the UI tools available in Qute but I don't think anything like that currently exists (I've looked around a little).

Still a real ad-blocker would be great, youtube is barely usable these days with three layers of unskippable ads on each video. (although you can work around that /specific/ problem with umpv and a hotkey to launch it: section10 https://qutebrowser.org/FAQ.html )

I use a little python glue in config.py:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/qut...

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