nav von Max Hu

the better way to navigate the web

🪝 nav - vim style keyboard navigation for the web

NOTE: Google does not allow nav to run on the Chrome Web Store page or the Chrome New Tab page by design. Unfortunately, this restriction is enforced by Chrome and cannot be bypassed.

NOTE: Chrome may display strong or alarming permission warnings when installing nav. These permissions are required so nav’s JavaScript can run on web pages and provide keyboard navigation features. nav does not collect, store, or transmit any of your data, and it does not communicate with external servers. Everything runs locally in your browser. If you're curious, the source code is fully open and available to review.

Take full control of your browser with nav — a fast, fully configurable extension that transforms the way you move through the web.
Stop reaching for your mouse. Scroll, switch tabs, open links, search pages, copy URLs, and navigate history — all from your keyboard. nav is built for speed, precision, and flow, giving you a smoother and more focused browsing experience.
Designed to stay lightweight yet powerful, nav adapts to your workflow with customizable hotkeys, URL-based rules, and fully adjustable hint styling.

Key Features:
⚡️ Fast & Lightweight
⌨️ Vim-Style Keyboard Navigation
🔎 In-Page Find Mode
🔗 Smart Link Hints
🖼️ Image Hints & Yank Actions
📋 Clipboard Actions (Links, Images, Tab URLs)
🗂️ Tab & History Navigation
🧩 URL-Based Site Rules
🎨 Customizable Hint Styling
🛠️ Fully Configurable Hotkeys

Keyboard-First Browsing, Reimagined
nav brings Vim-inspired navigation to your browser — without getting in your way. Every interaction is designed to be fast, predictable, and repeatable.
You can repeat most actions by prepending a number before the command.
5j scroll down 5 times
3d scroll down half a page 3 times
2J move left two tabs

All bindings are fully configurable in the options page.
Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>, and <a-x> for ctrl+x, meta+x, and alt+x respectively. For shift+x and ctrl-shift-x, just type X and <c-X>.

Navigating the Current Page:
h scroll left
j scroll down
k scroll up
l scroll right
gg scroll to top of page
G scroll to bottom of page
d scroll down half a page
u scroll up half a page

Using Hints:
f open hinted target in current tab
F open hinted target in new tab

Tab Actions:
t create new tab
x close current tab
r reload page
R hard reload page
J focus tab to the left
K focus tab to the right
yt duplicate current tab
W move current tab to a new window

Clipboard Actions:
yl copy hinted link URL
yi copy hinted image
yI copy hinted image URL
yy copy current tab URL

History and Pagination:
H go back in history
L go forward in history
[ follow previous page link
] follow next page link

Find Mode:
/ enter find mode
n next match
N previous match

Watch Mode:
w enter watch mode
f toggle fullscreen
e toggle play/pause
l toggle loop
m toggle mute
c toggle captions