Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn

4.9 Stars out of 5

Review by Firefox user 13569153

by Firefox user 13569153, 7 years ago

This extension shows a lot of promise, and is currently the best webextension-based vim extension there is (of which I've used vimium, vim-vixen, and saka-key). I really like how easy it is rebind keys and use a "command mode" just like real vim. The developers of this extension update and improve things on a regular basis. There are some problems however:
- inability to change or disable the ugly new-tab page
- hint mode misses a few links on some websites
- ability to disable the extension on some websites (ignore mode is only temporary)
- ability to change the search engine when using the "open" command
- vim-like searching using /, ?, and n/N
- (probably an issue with webextensions) won't work on about: pages and addon pages
Even with the above issues, this extension is still very good and stable. I wish the developers luck in working around the limitations of webextensions API.

Developer response

posted 7 years ago

Thanks for your kind words and feedback!

A couple of your issues have already been resolved at least partially:

You can change the default search engine with `set searchengine [keyword]` and add new search keywords with `searchsetkeyword [keyword] [url]`.

You can change the newtab page (at least, the one navigated to with `*open`) with `set newtab [url]`.

This does expose another issue, though: our documentation isn't very good yet.