Vimium users statistics
By Phil Crosby, Ilya Sukhar · Chrome Web Store · Tools
The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.
Vimium has approximately 600,000 recorded users on Chrome Web Store.
It ranks #45 of 1,556 tracked Chrome Web Store listings by users.
It is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 4,600 ratings.
PluginStats has 2 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 17, 2026.
Rating: 4.80 / 5 from 4,600 ratings
About Vimium
The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.
*NOTE* Google does not allow Vimium to run on this Chrome Web Store page and the Chrome New Tab page, by design. Sorry about that!
*NOTE* Chrome has some alarmist messaging around the permissions that Vimium needs to run. Really all it's asking for is that Vimium's javascript be loaded into every page. Don't be alarmed. Vimium never talks to any servers and does absolutely nothing with your data. Read the open source code if you're curious.
For more information about rebinding your keys and how to use many of Vimium's features, see here: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/README.md
Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>, <a-x> for ctrl+x, meta+x, and alt+x respectively.
Navigating the current page:
? show the help dialog for a list of all available keys h scroll left j scroll down k scroll up l scroll right gg scroll to top of the page G scroll to bottom of the page d scroll down half a page u scroll up half a page f open a link in the current tab F open a link in a new tab r reload gs view source i enter insert mode -- all commands will be ignored until you hit esc to exit yy copy the current url to the clipboard yf copy a link url to the clipboard gf cycle forward to the next frame
Navigating to new pages:
o Open URL, bookmark, or history entry O Open URL, bookmark, history entry in a new tab b Open bookmark B Open bookmark in a new tab
Using find:
/ enter find mode -- type your search query and hit enter to search or esc to cancel n cycle forward to the next find match N cycle backward to the previous find match
Navigating your history:
H go back in history L go forward in history
Manipulating tabs:
J, gT go one tab left K, gt go one tab right g0 go to the first tab g$ go to the last tab t create tab x close current tab X restore closed tab (i.e. unwind the 'x' command) T search through your open tabs
Additional advanced browsing commands:
]] Follow the link labeled 'next' or '>'. Helpful for browsing paginated sites. [[ Follow the link labeled 'previous' or '<'. Helpful for browsing paginated sites. <a-f> open multiple links in a new tab gi focus the first (or n-th) text input box on the page gu go up one level in the URL hierarchy
Vimium supports command repetition so, for example, hitting '5t' will open 5 tabs in rapid succession. ESC (or <c-[>) will clear any partial commands in the queue and will also exit insert and find modes.
Release notes, see:
- https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Description from the Chrome Web Store listing.
Where Vimium sits in the listing
Each band is one page of 20. Users on a log scale. Placement is projected from users, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
Full history (2)Similar Chrome Web Store Tools plugins
Data source
User counts are read from public Chrome Web Store listing pages. Google displays rounded user counts (and caps the display at 10,000,000+), so small changes may not be visible. Rating counts above 1,000 are rounded (e.g. 1.6K).
Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 17, 2026. See the methodology.