Reviews for Tridactyl
Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn
Response by Oliver Blanthorn
Developer response
posted 7 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.
476 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18422486, 9 days 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.
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