Reviews for Tridactyl
Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn
472 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15151402, 5 years agoEssential. Browsing internet without it feels slow and clumsy.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15142876, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15070421, 5 years agoAyy lmao, that slip of the "sexually active popes" wikipedia page on the screen caps. five stars for that.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Suraj Mishra, 5 years agoIt's fast, responsive and actively developed. It's great. I would definitely recommend this extension for vim binding lovers.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Deyteriy, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Derek, 5 years agoIt's excellent although I would recommend adding visual mode. The best attribute IMO is its accuracy when providing link hints with "F"
- Rated 5 out of 5by hytromo, 5 years agoThe learning curve is there, but once you get the hang of it, you'll be so much more productive!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tim Hermans, 5 years agoGreat replacement for vimp and penta! Hobbled a bit by the browser API changes, but they're doing their best.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dylan Price, 5 years agoAllowed me to finally switch back to Firefox after the transition to WebExtensions broke Pentadactyl.
- Rated 5 out of 5by oxysoft, 5 years agoMUST have. This extension is pure quality and makes it a joy to browse the web with a keyboard.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14005812, 5 years agoAs others have noted the limitations placed by the Webapi and the tabopen/open bug that occasionally opens three or more tabs are annoying (the developers themselves are aware of this), but overall this extension has greatly increased my productivity, and navigating links with the keyboard is much easier than using my laptop's crappy trackpad.
I've tried Vim Vixen, Vimium and this, they all have their own set of strengths and weaknesses, but so far Tridactyl is my favorite
Update 24/08/2019: the aforementioned bugs were fixed, tridactyl performs flawlessly. - Rated 4 out of 5by bool3max, 6 years agoEDIT: The more and more and I use it the more bugs I find. e.g. :tabopen opens 3 blank tabs every time it is used. Extremely annoying.
Lots of really annoying quirks that are not limitations of this addon but of the WebExtension API. Thus we can't really factor them in the review.
Some of them include not being able to use any bindings before a page has fully loaded, not being able to use bindings on about:blank, etc...
One major factor that could definitely be improved upon is performance. There's a noticeable delay when switching tabs and especially when typing commands in the console.
Also the link-follow UI with the giant yellow rectangles is atrocious. Lots of duplicate links, poor visibility. Vim Vixen does much better in that regard.
Other than that the addon is really good and I appreciate all the work that's been put into it. Once the WebExtension API improves I don't doubt that we'll see a lot of improvements in Tridactyl too.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. We're aware and working on most of the issues you've mentioned.
> [... T]he link-follow UI with the giant yellow rectangles is atrocious. Lots of duplicate links, poor visibility. Vim Vixen does much better in that regard.
Please could you file an issue detailing the page(s) where you see duplicate links, or they have poor visibility? We've tried quite hard to remove duplicates from hints. Our issues page is here: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues
Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14991127, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Franek Madej, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ryloric, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14961690, 6 years agoits not as good as pentadactyl, however that one recently stopped working on pale moon (patch is there but i cant download it yet). but it does the job mostly.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14951571, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14629078, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14796453, 6 years agoLoving not having to reach for the mouse almost ever :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14784586, 6 years agoTridactyl is best replacement for Vimperator currently available. I can't imagine how I'd use browser without it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14771097, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13505052, 6 years agoEven with very little experience with vim, this addons gives you a free productivity boost, even using a single feature such as pressing 'f' to click buttons or links is very useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mabier, 6 years agoThis is a fantastic addon that I enjoy so much and install in every firefox browsers I can touch !!