[Noisebridge-discuss] seeking geek advice: firefox+vimerator or chrom?

[Michael Shiloh]

Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> Excerpts from Michael Shiloh's message of Sat Jan 02 20:12:45 -0800 2010:
>> I'll try shutting off the Flash plugin as you suggest. I have no use for 
>> Flash anyway. It's damn near a virus, in my opinion.
> 
> I would do the same, but I like to be able to use video on the web. Not
> too many sites embedding .ogg these days :(

i figure with all the time i save by not watching video on the web i can 
afford a second life.

>  
>> The more I play with vimperator, the more I want vi navigation for my 
>> entire desktop.
> 
> I use the "awesome" window manager on the desktop, and have it set with
> mostly vi-like keybindings, but this only works for spawning, moving,
> and re-arranging windows, not actually interacting with the applications
> themselves.

i'll give it a try.


>  
>> The same folks who did vimperator have a similar project for 
>> thunderbird, but it only starts with thunderbird 3 which just in alpha 
>> and isn't working for me quite yet.
> 
> Mail-wise, I've had good luck with "sup", a mail client written in ruby
> with mostly vi-like defaults and configurable keybindings.
> Not a full-on GUI like Thunderbird, so html mail is less convenient.


thanks for the tip. i very rarely have to deal w/ html email so that's fine.

m