philc
Vimium breaks essential video functionality
Hi. Thanks for a great project. Just wanted to raise an issue which does not seem to have attracted any attention. One of the first things I noticed after installing vimium is that it breaks key video functionality designed to improve accessibility. I'm referring to the use of the numbers 0~9 as seeking shortcuts (ie. pressing '0' takes you to the start of the video, pressing '5' takes you to the middle, pressing '9' seeks to the 90% mark). Youtube is the most important site with this functionality but it is becoming increasingly common. 'Flowplayer' is another video platform with this feature. I know there is an option to disable vimium in selected websites but this feels like a suboptimal solution. The other vim extensions i've tried don't suffer from this.
You can press i to enter insert mode which will disable all of the vim commands and those commands should work until you hit ESC to exit
That's an excellent suggestion odoland, thanks for commenting. However this is just a workaround. Whenever I install a vim extension, the first thing I do is unmap everything and build from scratch. The mere installation of vimium is breaking website functionality. From the user perspective this makes no sense. Why does vimium intercept numbers on an 'unmapAll' setup? It's completely unintuitive and breaks the workflow. Based on my experience with other vim implementations, this behaviour seems unique to vimium.
Just recently started using this extension and I cannot agree with @smurfvindaloo.
But I stumbled upon another workaround (for youtube at least), you can use shift + number to seek if toggling of the insert mode is too cumbersome.
You're completely missing the point tsopeh. On an 'unmapAll' setup there should be no interference with website functionality at all.
I'm also having the same problem. I use unmapAll too and vimium is preventing me from using numbers as shortcuts. Seems like a bug that it's blocking it even though I unmapped all. I can use shortcuts that use letters but not numbers.
Another workaround I found is https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Disabling-Vimium and entering 1234567890 into the keys section
I'm also having the same problem. I use unmapAll too and vimium is preventing me from using numbers as shortcuts. Seems like a bug that it's blocking it even though I unmapped all. I can use shortcuts that use letters but not numbers.
Another workaround I found is https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Disabling-Vimium and entering 1234567890 into the keys section
This is great, thanks!
For anyone wondering what the config should look like to disable the numbers keys in all sites, it would be something like this:
