Reviews for Tridactyl
Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn
476 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Memas, 7 years agoI really appreciate your work! In fact, I just switched from firefox esr 52 to quantum 60 and I was in a loss when I found vimperator is no longer supported in newest versions of firefox. Finally I got a satisfactory alternative from your kind work. Thanks a lot! This is the reason why I use firefox (Vimium is just not that costomized!). Pitifully I do not have a valid Paypal account (not properlly supported in China), but please accept my simcere gratitute to you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11278032, 7 years agoI used to help maintain Vimperator which has now stopped development due to Firefox addon API deprecation. Tridactyl however has proven to be a worthy successor! The user experience is great, and long time users of similar addons such as Pentadactyl should feel at home. Due to the nature of changes in WebExtensions and its earlier and current limitations I'm really excited to see it come this far!
Importantly, the project also has great development momentum with lots of features being added or bugs being fixed all the time. This is truly a breath of fresh air in the enthusiast community of power users looking to vimify or otherwise enhance their browser experience, which for some time has been stale with the foreshadowing of the deprecation of XUL/XPCOM and ultimately the need to port or discard lots and lots of old code.
Remember to check out #tridactyl on the many platforms its available, including the ever present Freenode. More information can be found in the README on their GitHub project. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14084249, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jalcine, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Éloi Rivard, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14054016, 7 years agoThis add-on keeps getting better and better. Coming from Vimperator I was missing a lot of functionality at the start and I was switching between different replacements like Vim Vixen. But over time more and more functionality was added back in and I settled on Tridactyl. I almost wet myself when CTRL + ^(6) and . started working again. Obviously it's not always as smooth as Vimperator, due to it being a content script, but it gets me most of the way there. Keep up the good work!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12920319, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14049133, 7 years agoThis is the closest thing to Pentadctyl you will find in the new WebExtensions world. It's gotten good enough that I've switched off of Pale Moon (a FF fork) to Firefox and I'm relatively happy so far.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14048265, 7 years agoI've been a long time pentadactyl user and like other reviewers here have been evaluating a few alternatives to replace it . So far it seems like tridactyl is the only current one that approaches and has the best potential in trying to provide a pentadactyl/vimperator experience.
Being used to the maturity of pentadactyl, using tridactyl does leave me feeling a bit disabled
- tridactyl sometimes stop working on some pages and I have to switch tabs and back to get it working again
- mapping like 'gh/GH' appear to be documented but do not seem to work.
- 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. :)
- 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.
- some keybindings are different from pentadactyl - e.g. `yy` as opposed to `y` to yank the url - arguably tridactyl is doing the right thing but it does mean some investment in unlearning/remapping things.
- 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.
tridactyl is still young but has an active community/code-base and I'm sure most of my pains will go away in time. So far it looks like this is the contender I will stick with.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. - Rated 5 out of 5by bart9h, 7 years agoHere's hoping that this will become a worthy successor to Vimperator
- Rated 4 out of 5by gianni, 7 years agoFantastic addon, very good work.
Sometimes, when on gmail, I get this error:
"# Error: # Tridactyl's native messenger doesn't support your operating system, yet."Developer response
posted 7 years agoThat's weird. Would you mind opening an issue about it on GitHub so that we can investigate it further? Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14039449, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14035123, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14033697, 7 years agoThis extension is awesome. For a while I was using the extended release version of Firefox so that I could keep using Vimperator, but Tridactyl has reached the point where that's no longer necessary. Also it's currently very actively developed, and has gotten a lot better in the last few weeks even. Great work!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13981655, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14013504, 7 years agoI was using one of the post WebExtension vim addons before I heard of this one. Very impressed!
Best Firefox vim addon at the moment, keep up the great work developers!
4 stars because this is just a work in progress, but has the most potential of any.
I would really like to open links in container tabs, but this could be an API limitation.Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'm actually reviewing a PR that supports container tabs right now: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/pull/499. It will take a short while before it reaches a stable release, though, as it requires yet more permissions. If you use a beta version of Tridactyl from https://tridactyl.cmcaine.co.uk/betas you'll get it quicker :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14013442, 7 years agoGreat addon! One thing that could be improved is the selection of keys for multi-key shortcuts which should ideally use keys that are next to each other.
EDIT: Thanks for the quick reply! I guess I was a bit unclear with what I meant. I wasn't referring to the shortcuts for commands (I'm actually very happy with those) but the little hint tags that show up when pressing f/F. My suggestion here would be to prioritize simple combinations (double keys, nearby keys) based on a selected keyboard layout (e.g. qq, kk, qw, kl, ...) instead of just incrementally exhausting the 'hintchars' pool.Developer response
posted 7 years agoWe just use the same binds as Vimperator because the authors are lazy and don't want to have to relearn anything. If you have anything that you particularly dislike, feel free to file an issue: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/issues.
You almost rebind anything you want, though, with `bind [key sequence] [command]`. If you just do `bind [key sequence]` you'll find out what that command that sequence is bound to, and `viewconfig nmaps` will show you all of the binds you have. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14012595, 7 years agoWhile it is much less feature-full than Vimperator, it works well, the keybindings are mostly intuitive, and I am excited by the fast pace of development.
- Rated 5 out of 5by BAON, 7 years agoThis add-on saved me from leaving firefox due a lack of vimperator feel.
At the current state of development, there is no missed feature since it already has everything I was used to. Thank you!!! - Rated 4 out of 5by Ashwin Vishnu, 7 years agoGreat extension! One star less because it requires a lot of permissions.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoAre there any that you particularly dislike? Feel free to file an issue here: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/issues. All of the permissions we ask for are because we need them for features, as we try to explain in the add-on description.
It would be nice if we could just ask for permission when the features are first used, but unfortunately most of the permissions we need are not supported by permission requests at runtime - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Request_the_right_permissions#Request_permissions_at_runtime. - Rated 5 out of 5by Marcel Samyn, 7 years agoWonderful extension! Works well and new cool features keep getting added.
Too bad some features don't work (well) because of WebExtension limitations but things can only get better ;) - Rated 5 out of 5by WooParadog, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12349192, 7 years ago