Integration with cVim / Vimium

[rafi]

I'm an avid cVim user, and I love The Great Suspender. However, on suspended tabs, cVim stops working. Is there a way I could keep using both these awesome plugins together?

[tmttn]

I was experiencing this issue myself, so I'm glad someone beat me in reporting it. I love both extensions a lot. It would be nice if they'd play nice together.

[kalbasit]

I have the same problem. @deanoemcke is it possible to whitelist extensions so we can whitelist cVim?

[boorac]

+1 definitely would love this

[deanoemcke]

Can you give me a bit more information on what is breaking in cVim (specifically)?
The problem is most likely that extensions cannot function on another extensions tab. All suspended tabs belong to the Great Suspender extension. I don't think there is a way to work around this. But I would need a more specific example to be sure.

[deanoemcke]

The comments on this PR are also quite relevant: #423

I think essentially, they implemented the problematic keyboard shortcuts inside The Great Suspender. Not a solution that I think is really correct..

[rafi]

@deanoemcke In a suspended tab, cVim doesn't work at all. You can't even use J/K to navigate through tabs, none of cVim features work.

[kalbasit]

@deanoemcke this could be solved by loading the suspended page externally (as-in accessed via regular http/https) instead of chrome-extension://klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg/suspended.html. cVim (or any other extension) does not work over chrome-extension://.

[madhukar93]

bump

[deanoemcke]

@kalbasit you are correct that the problem could be resolve by using an external web address for suspended tabs. this however makes it dependent on an external site being up (as well as having an internet connection locally). It also significantly affects chrome restart time when restoring a lot of suspended tabs. They currently load almost instantly.
And most importantly, it reduces the extension's performance memory-wise which is the primary use case for the extension.

Unfortunately, I cannot allow this feature request to impact the core performance of the extension :(

[kalbasit]

@deanoemcke could you at least provide an option in the settings allowing us to set a custom URL for the suspended page?

[deanoemcke]

@kalbasit this would break a lot of functionality. the contents of a suspended tab would be out of my control. it would be a pretty significant code rewrite to implement.

Perhaps you could try my other extension, The Great Discarder. This uses native chrome discarding functionality rather than redirecting to a suspended page. Perhaps it will play nicer with vimium (i haven't tried it sorry).

[dumblob]

Perhaps you could try my other extension, The Great Discarder. This uses native chrome discarding functionality rather than redirecting to a suspended page. Perhaps it will play nicer with vimium (i haven't tried it sorry).

Unfortunately starting from Chromium 61.x there is an issue with focusing of discarded tabs. Therefore it doesn't play much nicer with Vimium/cVim 😢.

[jnelson180]

If you're on a Mac, you can change the shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and add app specific shortcuts for Chrome. I just use ^J and ^K instead of J and K and it's close-enough-ish.

https://superuser.com/questions/497526/how-to-customize-google-chrome-keyboard-shortcuts

[Eduruiz]

I have a suggestion here, as a vimium user for a long time and a new user of TGS I's struggling a bit.
So basically the only things I think someone needs to use on a suspended tab is J and K to change tabs, I also notice that TGS already has some keyboard shortcuts that the user can implement (I'm using Ctrl + s to un/suspend tabs, It's not an easy implementation to add the 'next tab' and 'prev tab' shortcuts?

It can have a default to J and K or simply have no defaults and vimium users implement the shortcut by their own.

[dumblob]

@Eduruiz that sounds like a good compromise and I raise my hand for that.

[schlowm0]

Any update on this?

[afedulov]

It seems that what @Eduruiz is proposing is the best compromise. +1 to it.

[abnerf]

Any solutions so far?

[krzkrzkrz]

I second @Eduruiz suggestion here. Would be great to have this option