Reviews for Tridactyl
Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn
Review by Firefox user 18422486
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 18422486, a year agoI love this and can't live without it. There's some issues I'd love to see taken care of, if even possible.
Sometimes I need to click on a blank space on a page to make tridactyl perform an action, like scrolling with J/K, or typing a command with ":" .
Second issue I have is where I activate hint mode with F, and there are way too many hint labels on a specific element, many of which don't do anything, and only one that actually does something. Maybe it could be implementet that hint labels that don't do anything when typed are hidden from hint mode, and that hints that do the same thing (like click the same button) are merged into each other.
3rd issue is that on using t to tabopen, it searches not just the urls from my bookmarks and history, it also searches in the tab "titles", which is for example "Tridactyl – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)" for this mozilla page. I'd like to just search in urls from my bookmarks and history, not those titles too.
Also when using t to tabopen, I'd like it to open the page at the top when pressing enter, instead of searching what I just typed in. Because now I have to press the Tab key everytime I want to open the top url. I don't want to search the part after :tabopen, because I would have just used the s/S key to search.
Tridactyl breaks microsoft teams by the way, so I had to do :blacklistadd teams.microsoft.com.
I also look forward to tridactyl working on addons.mozilla.org and other sites.
Sometimes I need to click on a blank space on a page to make tridactyl perform an action, like scrolling with J/K, or typing a command with ":" .
Second issue I have is where I activate hint mode with F, and there are way too many hint labels on a specific element, many of which don't do anything, and only one that actually does something. Maybe it could be implementet that hint labels that don't do anything when typed are hidden from hint mode, and that hints that do the same thing (like click the same button) are merged into each other.
3rd issue is that on using t to tabopen, it searches not just the urls from my bookmarks and history, it also searches in the tab "titles", which is for example "Tridactyl – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)" for this mozilla page. I'd like to just search in urls from my bookmarks and history, not those titles too.
Also when using t to tabopen, I'd like it to open the page at the top when pressing enter, instead of searching what I just typed in. Because now I have to press the Tab key everytime I want to open the top url. I don't want to search the part after :tabopen, because I would have just used the s/S key to search.
Tridactyl breaks microsoft teams by the way, so I had to do :blacklistadd teams.microsoft.com.
I also look forward to tridactyl working on addons.mozilla.org and other sites.
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