CollectiveNoodle

I really like using the Vimperator plugin for FireFox. It’s helped me learn the Vim commands and obviated the mouse for browsing web pages (except for heavy javascript or Flash laden websites).

Unfortunately, the latest version of the Vimperator plugin (version 2.0) causes my install of Firefox to crash like, 80% of the time. Since Firefox is my primary browser having to force quit it all the time became a serious annoyance.

After doing some digging on the web it seemed that this problem was not that common (although a co-worker of mine was having the same problem but with less frequency). There was some hint in a email post that it might have something to do with an old bookmark service bug. I’m not really sure what that means, or if that is the actual problem. However, there is solution that seems to be holding up well, at least for me anyway.

To fix this problem here’s what you need to do:

1) Create a .vimperatorrc file in your home directory (/Users/brian …for example)

2) In this file add the following line

:set nopreload

3) Save the file and restart Firefox.

Note: I’m not entirely sure what the ‘nopreload’ command does. I found out about this setting from this mailing list email.

Update on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 12:36AM by Brian Chamberlain

With the latest Firefox and Vimperator… you don’t need to do any of this. In fact, if you have the :set nopreload tag set, you should probably remove it.