philc/vimium
The hacker's browser.
27.1k stars · 2.6k forks · JavaScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 96% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 22
- Human commits, 365 days
- 96
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Jul 25, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 25, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 15 days
Responsiveness: of 15 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 96 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 166
Top committers
- philc: 96% of commits
- ckardaris: 1% of commits
- goodhippo: 1% of commits
- luddet: 1% of commits
- otomist: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 27, 2015 to Apr 29, 2015: about 187 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 3, 2015 to May 4, 2015: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 9, 2015 to Sep 10, 2015: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 30, 2016 to Jan 31, 2016: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 26, 2016 to May 27, 2016: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 12, 2016 to Jun 12, 2016: about 47 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 8, 2017 to Mar 9, 2017: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 8, 2017 to Apr 10, 2017: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 14, 2017 to Sep 15, 2017: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 27, 2017 to Oct 28, 2017: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 9, 2017 to Dec 10, 2017: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 30, 2018 to Aug 31, 2018: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 9, 2020 to Feb 13, 2020: about 208 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 3, 2020 to Mar 4, 2020: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 10, 2021 to Jul 12, 2021: about 249 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 21, 2024 to Oct 24, 2024: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- 339 stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- 339 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.5 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: philc/vimium
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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