Have you ever thought how the only time you ever use your keyboard is when you use Firefox, and how it would be nice to have a browser that could both display graphics AND be used only with keyboard? Well, you could simply use and lots of shortcuts, and Firefox will do just that. But where's the fun in that?

Vimperator, Firefox the way I like it: Vimperator is a surprisingly faithful Vim-like interface on top of Firefox. Best of two worlds!

Almost everything in Vimperator works just like Vim. For example, I can open a new tab by typing the familiar command

:tabnew

If you need help with Vimperator, you can get it by typing

:help

What's more fun is that it uses the same movement keys as Vim itself, so down would be j, left would be h, and so on. Even some of the advanced maneuvers are supported. There is also support for counters, so typing 12j will move you 12 lines toward bottom.

All in all, it's a very interesting and successful concept. I wish I'd have discovered it earlier.

There are a few things to note though. Rendering of some pages is not perfect. Sometimes a drop-down will not wok with a mouse at all (although it will work using Vimperator's own commands). Sometimes JavaScript will be even more choppy than normal (you thought that was impossible, didn't you?). But this is Vimperator 0.5. They have 1.0 ready, too. But it's only for Firefox 3.