Only specific letters are recognized in Vimium's bar
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Description
Describe the bug
Either by opemning o/O or Shift+T, the Vimium bar opens. While Shift+T initially shows the last few entries, entering text in the bar doesn't really affect these results.
When entering anything, the list isn't being updated. Only some specific letters (like a, an, o and few others) do in fact work and upon entering them, the list updated. But that's quite a limited alphabet and renders these functions unuseable.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Open your "last used tabs" list with
Shift+T. - Enter the first letter
ato filter results. - This shows any result with the letter a in it.
- Continue filtering on adding the letters "assemble" for example.
- The list stops filtering beneath the first letter a.
Browser and Vimium version
| Browser | Firefox 147.0.3 |
| Vimium | 2.3.1 |
| Distribution ID | archlinux |
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0 |
| OS | Linux 6.18.9-2-cachyos #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:59:36 +0000 |
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. First reproduce the Shift+T filtering problem in Firefox using the listed steps, then trace the bar's text-filtering behavior; done means successive letters such as “assemble” continue narrowing the results.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 62/100