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Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.

36 mentions on Hacker News by 30 people: 11 stories, 25 comments · first 2019-05-09 · latest 2025-12-10

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  1. I've heard of https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim but I've also heard you might run into issues clashing with browser keybinds
    comment by wonger_ · 2025-12-10 · in Making macOS Bearable
  2. …same technique to make config from your terminal that doesn't fit in the extension not appear. [1] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim#building-a-firenvim-sp...
    comment by freedomben · 2024-12-19 · in Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client
  3. You might like Firenvim or Wasavi: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi qutebrowser (and some others) also allow spawning vim from inside a text area, and reading the result back when the file is saved. I…
    comment by The-Compiler · 2024-10-22 · in Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
  4. …I could drop out of insert mode in normal web browser text boxes. You can, if you really want to: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by turboponyy · 2023-08-05 · in Bram Moolenaar has died
  5. This is a plugin that makes browser text area elements into nvim buffers. https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim Haven't tested it in combination with Jupyter but I imagine it should work
    comment by geysersam · 2023-06-13 · in JupyterLab 4.0
  6. …case give firenvim[1] a try. It uses your existing config (keymaps, plugins, autocmds, etc). [1] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by fortunateregard · 2023-05-04 · in Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List
  7. Also firenvim while you’re at it to have neovim embedded in your browser. https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by huseyinkeles · 2023-01-16 · in Wasavi – Vi editor for any webpage
  8. > Can you make Firefox's form inputs use Vim keybindings? Do you mean something like this: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim ?
    comment by kovac · 2023-01-13 · in Vim is touch-typing on steroids
  9. Interesting about the security note and WASM re: the Neovim version. (see here: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim . More specifically here: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim/blob/master/SECURITY.m... ) Does this open up an attack…
    comment by deafpolygon · 2023-01-06 · in Show HN: Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB
  10. …and all coding niceties in the little code playgrounds that are all the rage in nowadays tutorials https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firenvim/
    comment by cassepipe · 2023-01-05 · in Show HN: Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB
  11. For Neovim users, see also Firenvim [0]. Which I've been using for quite a while now. [0] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by Normille · 2022-12-24 · in Tridactyl: A Vim-like interface for Firefox
  12. …accomplishes this very useful trick in a site-configurable manner and is compatible with Tridactyl. https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by psacawa · 2022-12-04 · in Show HN: Using Vim as an input method editor (IME) for X11 apps
  13. Firenvim may be a partial solution: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by cturtle · 2022-12-01 · in A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
  14. I use it with Firenvim: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by fish45 · 2022-11-09 · in An animated introduction to Elixir
  15. …are plenty of plugins. The Vim emulation is pretty cool, the closest alternative I can think of is https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim , but I disabled it a while ago for being kind of clunky
    comment by fish45 · 2021-12-12 · in Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windows at the speed of thought
  16. …actually use this as much as I thought I might, as I nearly always forget I have it installed: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim These last two aren't browser extensions as such. But I can't imagine using my browser without these. So I…
    comment by Normille · 2021-11-23 · in Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
  17. Firenvim exists for in-browser neovim. I haven't used it. [0] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by dmurray · 2021-09-03 · in Web-based editor
  18. …plugin which embeds a Neovim editor window in HTML textareas [0] https://github.com/qvacua/vimr [1] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by Normille · 2021-05-26 · in Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
  19. The real killer feature of Neovim is Firenvim ( https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim ). I'm still waiting for somebody to do the same thing with GTK inputs and the shell (yeah, I know that bash and zsh support a vim mode, but it sucks).
    comment by powmli · 2021-05-26 · in Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
  20. …re-instated like ublock ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745 ) or firenvim ( https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim/issues/518 ).
    comment by retyurt · 2021-03-24 · in Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
  21. If you’re more of a vim person, check out firenvim: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by maddyboo · 2021-02-10 · in Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
  22. This is the most promising project I've come across: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim , although it only applies to the browser. The last time I tried it out it had some performance issues though.
    comment by mkskm · 2020-08-30 · in Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation
  23. …does not play nice and does not work. Worth checking out. Also for a more embedded vim experience: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by randompwd · 2020-08-05 · in Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
  24. …[6] https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb [7] https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c [8] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
    comment by infokiller · 2020-08-04 · in Web Search Navigator: Keyboard Navigation for Google, YouTube, GitHub, Amazon
  25. There's also https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim which, while it isn't real vim, it's neovim which is pretty close ;)
    comment by bovine3dom · 2019-12-03 · in Big Pile of Vim-Like