Vimium v1.50 is released

[Phil Crosby]

Hey everyone,

Vimium v1.50 is now live in the Chrome store -- it contains many hard-won fixes and improvements to make Vimium nicer to use around the web, as well as many other new features, most notably Visual mode (in beta)! Take it for a spin.

Steve Blott did a lot of the heavy lifting for this release. Great work Steve! And great work to everyone who contributed code or to the discussions on the tracker for this release. Vimium has been growing more useful and polished each week.

Here's the full changelog:

• Visual mode (in beta): use v and then vim-like keystrokes to select text on the page. Use y to yank or p and P to search. Please provide feedback on Github.
• Added the option to prevent pages from stealing focus from Vimium when loaded.
• Many bugfixes for custom search engines, and search engines can now have a description.
• Better support for frames: key exclusion rules are much improved and work within frames; the Vomnibar is always activated in the main frame; and a new command (gF) focuses the main frame.
• Find mode now has history. Use the up arrow to select previous searches.
• Ctrl and Shift when using link hints changes the tab in which links are opened in (reinstated feature).
• Focus input (gi) remembers previously-visited inputs.
• Bug fixes.