Vrome - Bringing Vim's elegance to Chrome

Vrome is a Vim keybindings extension for Chrome. Designed to provide a more efficient browsing experience, Vrome comes with its own additions that will surprise you.

Vim and Vimperator/Pentadactyl users will feel right at home.

What's new?

Getting started

• install it from the Chrome Web Store
• type ':' and voila!
• you just upgraded your chrome with vim power!

if you had some tabs open already, just refresh them to make them respond to vrome.

Keybindings for:

• URL navigation
• Tab manipulation
• Key Marks + bookmarks
• Page navigation + Scrolling + Zoom + Search
• History
• External editor support
• and much, much more

Important notes:

• Chrome does not allow extensions to run in the Chrome Webstore, Settings/Extensions page or "New Tab" page!
• Vrome is an open-source project. We do not log your personal information! All required permissions are used for features. You can check the source code here: http://github.com/jinzhu/vrome
• After install/upgrade, please refresh all tabs to enable all/new Vrome features. Tip: use "<C-r>" (Control + R) to refresh a tab, then try Vrome command "R" to refresh all tabs.
• Please enable Vrome in incognito mode in order to use commands that require incognito. Check chrome://extensions page.
• Type <F1> for Help page.

Installation

• (Recommended) Install the latest stable Vrome from Chrome Web Store. Afterwards, extension will be automatically updated when a new version is available!
• (Manual) From source:
  • Make sure ruby, npm, git are installed
  • git clone git://github.com/jinzhu/vrome.git
  • Install coffee-script with npm npm install -g coffee-script
  • Install Bundler with rubygems gem install bundler
  • Run bundle install
  • Run bundle exec rake build
  • Load this extension from chrome://extensions/ page

Improve it!

Like Vrome? Improve it by:

• Star it in GitHub!
• Rate Vrome in Chrome Web Store!
• Submit Issues/Features/Ideas to GitHub Issue Tracker!
• Tell about Vrome to your friends via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Blog, YouTube...
• Donate Vrome Development! Paypal, AliPay

Hack it!

• Install Vrome from source
• Run bundle exec guard
• That's all, all changes you made will apply to your browser automatically!

Find more information in our WIKI

Thanks!

Author

Jinzhu

• http://github.com/jinzhu
• wosmvp@gmail.com
• http://twitter.com/zhangjinzhu

Boris Petrov

• https://github.com/boris-petrov