OK, this is shit. I was not under the impression that this PIN was used to encrypt user data for storage somewhere else. That was not made clear to me.
It would have been more clear if you had clicked the link to their web page and spent time reading a whole long document while you had other things to do.
If I'm not mistaken, this PIN also allows people to hijack your account. That's kind of the point; you export here and you import on your next phone.
But I'm not sure, because the whole thing is so badly explained!
Very much, yes. If anything that word is now a warning sign. Thanks mr. minimal nerdy dev for having me download a minimal 9 MB auto playing header video over my mobile plan on your landing page[1].
This[2] is a better example of "minimalism" (I have to wash my mouth now). Notice something? Not a single mention of the word "minimal" in the entire article. Aaand, developer tools says it's 84 KB of data. Compare that to the the 13800 KB of the nerdy.dev landing page. Funny, [2] seems to be 164 times "more minimal" than [1].
It took me a while to figure out that I had to click the button on the gaudy header to scroll down. When the article previews started bouncing in sporadically, I scrolled back up to get my bearings. I went too far and accidentally scrolled into the gaudy header again. You can scroll into it but you can't scroll out of it.
This is Haunted House design. I enter through fog, things jump out at me, the paths are hidden, and they vanish behind me.
Too sad the switch to WebExtensions in Firefox totally screwed up these addons.
I was a religious VimFX user and I can tell you that i mourn having lost that. It's like an era of powerful browsing ended. I use the mentioned Vimium addon, but it's not even close to what we had with VimFX.
Does the keyboard shortcuts in Vimium work when the page is loading? No. How nice is it to have keyboard shortcuts that work sometimes? Extremely frustrating.
How about using "o" to get to the address bar (CMD/CTRL+L)? It opens some overlay on the page where I can't access my bookmarks.
I could go on. VimFX is still somewhat maintained, but you have to run an unsecure browser to use it (like WaterFox).
I was super happy that the old XUL extensions could hide UI elements. I used Vimperator and hid everything but the Vimperator status line, and it was awesome. Noticeably more screen real estate and less clutter.
For those looking for that more complete Vim experience, qutebrowser (https://qutebrowser.org/) is a good option, IMO.
The one thing holding me back from qutebrowser is the fact that its adblocking capabilities (particularly cosmetic ones) are nowhere near up to par with anything like uBlock Origin or even Adblock Plus on Firefox. I'm happy to see they're working on it, but uBlock-enabled web browsing has been a gamechanger for me, and it'd be hard to give that up to use a browser akin to Tridactyl++.
The second that qutebrowser (or any Webkit/Webengine vim-like browser) gets good adblock/cosmetic filtering support, I'll switch in a heartbeat.
So true. It's so easy to accidentally "escape" context in which Vimium works. I still use mouse and standard shortcuts like ctrl+l a lot after each such use one has to deliberately click inside a web page to return to proper context.
A lot of actions like tab switching can be done in vimium but sometimes it's a chore.
Bookmarks CAN be accessed via "o" in Vimium :)You can also use "b" to browse just the bookmarks.
In chrome if you create a custom search engine and and set the url to javascript: it will focus to the page. I set it to the letter j, so if I ever hit ctrl+l and change my mind, I just hit j then Enter to refocus the page.
I've been using Vim Vixen[0] since the WebExtension switch, and I haven't noticed any missing features. I'd be curious to see how you found it in comparison.
I use that too, but the specific points they mentioned (keyboard shortcuts while loading, focus the address bar when pressing `o`) do not work there either, and they cannot work with the WebExtension API.
