Firefox – Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command

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For some reason Firefox's vimperator :tabopen command suddenly doesn't work. :open still works. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Best Answer

Update #2: fix released

reinstall Vimperator

Update: fix done

Fix was done and contributed to Vimperator, new version was built with it, but it needs Mozilla's verification before publishing so it will take time.

If you wish to have it, follow this issue comment. I have not done that myself yet, so will not republish under my name (yet).

Reason why it doesn't work

Firefox changed how their rendering engine treats JS and Vimperator needs to adjust (e.g. legacy generator functions - those with yield - are now dropped).

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScript/Firefox_JavaScript_changelog#Firefox_51

Tab opening workaround

Open your .vimperatorrc file (GNU/Linux: /home/username/.vimperatorrc)
Add this (strange format due to - I think - << resulting in SO thinking I'm trying to do nasty work here and NOT displaying part of the code):

" Example keybinding: xt

nmap xt :extraTab<SPACE>

command! extraTab -nargs=1 -description "Open an extra tab" :js extraTab("<args>");

:js <<EOF

function extraTab(args) {

liberator.open(args, liberator.NEW_TAB)

}

EOF

Real solution

Needs to make tabs defined again, as now it ain't thus making it hard to do lots of tab-related things.

It requires Vimperator code re-work and an update, so go and upvote (don't comment, just upvote original post) an issue:

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/568

Related Solutions

Firefox – Vimperator and Ctrl+K

Firstly, awesome job figuring out wildoptions

That said, I'd just add that if you just hit o or t it should take you to the command box with the pre-filled command :open or :tabopen respectively. You could type some text and hit Tab to look at auto-complete options for that text.

Also if you ever want to see your search bar for whatever reason:

:set go+=T

Now you should have your entire toolbar, but to access the searchbox I use:

Alt+d -> Tab

OR
Ctrl+l -> Tab

To get rid of the unsightly toolbar just use:

:set go-=T

Also:
you could open up searchoptions via:

:dia searchengines

and set the keywords for each search engine. For eg: Google -> g, Yahoo -> y, etc.

Now when you need to search just hit o or t and follow up the command with g hello as in:

:open g hello

to open a google search page for the word hello

Vimperator Scroll

I actually switched to Pentadactyl because of this. Using vimperator it is possible to achieve this (though I'd have to look up how), but pentadactyl added better support.

I have

set passkeys+=google.com/reader/:j,k,v,<CR>,r

in my config, which sets any url that matches google.com/reader/ to pass the keys j, k, v, return, and r through to the page rather than handling them.

Other than that the two are very similar projects with very similar goals, I had no problem switching. Pentadactyl is a fork by some of the original developers of vimperator. I assume they had a good old open source forking out at some point.