How to toggle Full Screen (f) with Vimium enabled

[vgalovic]

Hi, I am new to this extension, so I don't know how I could to set a new map for full screen, for example in youtube. In browser, with out Vimium it would be f, but now with Vimium enabled it is no longer the case. My question is, how to map full screen mode for videos to something else, for example <C-f>?

[philg-dev]

You can either bind the vimium command passNextKey to a key of your choice. e.g. map q passNextKey. When you press that key the very next keystroke will be passed to the underlying page and afterwards Vimium will resume handling inputs again.

Or you could go into insert mode (default: i) in order to pass all keys pressed to the underlying page. It might act slightly weirdly that way. On Firefox I think full screen will be layered above the Vimium HUD indicator for "Insert mode" and when you press ESC, I think it will leave full screen but still remain in "Insert mode". That's just a minor quirk and should be easy to get used to.

Another way to get the default full screen mapping that many sites like YouTube, Twitch, etc. have implemented work with Vimium would be to either fully unmap f in your Vimium Options by adding a line with unmap f to your mappings config or you can add 'f' to excluded keys for specific websites. By default f opens the link hints mode which lets you navigate pages with your keyboard - so it's generally pretty useful and I don't like to have this functionality excluded or unmapped, therefore I usually just go with the "Insert mode" method instead.

Edit: Just to clarify - with Vimium you can't just arbitrarily "remap" page functionality like video player full screen mode. You can either use the keybindings that the underlying page provides by bypassing Vimium's key handling as described above or you could use the Vimium link hints with f and type the key combination that will show up on the full screen UI button.