Reviews for Tridactyl
Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn
Response by Oliver Blanthorn
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, thanks for such a detailed review.
> mapping like 'gh/GH' appear to be documented but do not seem to work
I've just added documentation in the betas to explain this better: you need to first set some homepages via `set home url1 url2 url3`. We don't get access to the Firefox ones.
> things feel slower, e.g. my muscle memory from pentadactyl has a T + Enter to open a newtab but in tridactyl opening the commandline takes about half a second - making a few things no-ops and I have to attempt again albeit slower. :)
At least some of that is our fault, and we're looking into it, albeit slowly :)
> tridactyl sometimes stop working on some pages and I have to switch tabs and back to get it working again
That's usually because focus has gone into an iframe, which are pretty fenced off. There's not much we can do about it :(
> tab-completion at the command line is missing. I hope this gets added.
> searching still uses the firefox native search interface (i.e. `ctrl-f`) but a feature to support this appears to be under development.
> a lot of my custom plugins for pentdactyl don't work but as javascript support improves, things could be ported over but the docs/examples on this front are few and far between.
These are all in progress. `js` is in the beta branch but is a bit janky.
If you need any help, don't hesitate to come into the Matrix channel or IRC advertised on the new tab page and the help page.
> mapping like 'gh/GH' appear to be documented but do not seem to work
I've just added documentation in the betas to explain this better: you need to first set some homepages via `set home url1 url2 url3`. We don't get access to the Firefox ones.
> things feel slower, e.g. my muscle memory from pentadactyl has a T + Enter to open a newtab but in tridactyl opening the commandline takes about half a second - making a few things no-ops and I have to attempt again albeit slower. :)
At least some of that is our fault, and we're looking into it, albeit slowly :)
> tridactyl sometimes stop working on some pages and I have to switch tabs and back to get it working again
That's usually because focus has gone into an iframe, which are pretty fenced off. There's not much we can do about it :(
> tab-completion at the command line is missing. I hope this gets added.
> searching still uses the firefox native search interface (i.e. `ctrl-f`) but a feature to support this appears to be under development.
> a lot of my custom plugins for pentdactyl don't work but as javascript support improves, things could be ported over but the docs/examples on this front are few and far between.
These are all in progress. `js` is in the beta branch but is a bit janky.
If you need any help, don't hesitate to come into the Matrix channel or IRC advertised on the new tab page and the help page.
431 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Limbo_o, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16412036, 25 days agoThe most vim-like experience I know about. x10 Control over web info. Thanks <3
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18130248, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by citizen333, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mullwar, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16283961, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ben, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by istvandonko, 3 months agoSeems to currently be the most complete solution for using the browser without a mouse.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin Jahns, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tanath, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18045406, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FiredMercury, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by davxy, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ben, 3 months agoMy number 1 required extension when using a web browser. I mean it, I'll take this extension over ublock origin. The developer is active and responds to Github Issues.
Thank you and blessings to Colin and Oliver - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17493017, 4 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Pierre Chevalier, 4 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Brain, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BooleanDuck, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by marvhus, 5 months agoIt's a nice addon to have, it's nice to sometimes just not have to rely on using my mouse for everything, but it does allow you to use your mouse too.
It can be a bit weird at times, for example sometimes when I scroll on some pages the layout breaks a little bit, and on some pages they keybinds can interfere a bit, but luckily it has a nice feature where you can either pass through one normal keystroke, or just toggle ignore mode with Shift+Esc.
It has a nice tutorial/guide built in so that you don't have to hunt down some docs somewhere on the internet, which is nice.
It's a nice addon, and I'll continue to enjoy using it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17926741, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14047235, 6 months agoProbably one of the most useful addons for firefox, behind certain ad blockers. Really does make using firefox better.