Add "open new link in LinkHint mode" or automatic LinkHint mode

[pattontim]

You can simulate this feature by pressing f to toggle LinkHint mode, entering the linkhint text for a link to navigate to that link and hold down f while the new page is loading. The link hints will then load as soon as possible, which is the desired behaviour.

The problem is that autofocus input boxes will grab your f presses preventing this from working on many pages.

The use case is when you know you'll be doing more navigating and that you want to click LinkHints on the next page.

Looking through the code, it looks like this would be done by adding a new LinkHint mode option.

What would be a useful way to enable this mode? Would you find this useful?

[gdh1995]

There's Don't let pages steal the focus on load in advanced options of Vimium Options page.

BTW, it seems that similar issues of auto-entering LinkHints mode have been filed years ago, but I just searched but didn't find one.

[fzadow]

Here's one: #3491

And yes, this would be a very welcome feature indeed!