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Reviews for Tridactyl

Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn

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  • by Firefox user 12812226, 7 years ago
    Thanks to the developers for their great work. After Vimperator stopped working using Firefox was quite uncomfortable, but this plugin does a good job filling the gaps and from update to update it's getting better. Keep it up!
  • 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.
  • by Firefox user 13554175, 7 years ago
    Looks promising, but can't figure out how to disable it for specific domains, so it's unusable for me at the moment.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi, thanks for your feedback.

    You can press `I` to get into ignore mode and to leave it.

    We don't yet have any per domain settings, but we have just finished the user configuration back end that was blocking it, so it should come soon. Check back in a few days or a week!
  • by pankona, 7 years ago
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  • by Firefox user 13539577, 7 years ago
    It's cool and very convenient to use.
  • by heishizixingk, 7 years ago
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  • by Firefox user 13508785, 7 years ago
    It's still lagging much behind now "legacy" plugins such as vimperator or pentadactyl, but it's not only the best vim-like plugin there currently is, but it's also pretty good already.
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  • by matbur, 7 years ago
    Addon is not working on few pages i.e. https://addons.mozilla.org or about:home. I've updated FF to ver. 57 and I hoped that there will be some good replacements for my favorite vimFx. I also don't like Tridactyl New Tab Page. I cannot find the shortcut for closing current tab.

    I hope that when this addon will be better I change my rating.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Thanks for your feedback. WebExtensions can't inject code onto addons.mozilla.org or pages with certain schemas. This is documented on the new-tab page, help page and on the readme :)

    The new-tab page is a bit rubbish. We hope to change it soon.

    The bind for closing a tab is `d`.
  • by Firefox user 13494469, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13491126, 7 years ago
    Looks like the best vimperator successor available.
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  • by Sweenu, 7 years ago
    Looking forword to see the evolution of Tridatctyl
  • by Firefox user 13438236, 7 years ago
    Just upgraded to Firefox 58 and found that Vimperator no longer works :(

    As I used to be a Pentadactyl user I decided to try Tridactyl. So far it behaves like a developing version of Pentadactyl and although its missing a few things, its pretty much intuitive. No manual needed so far.

    So thanks. Nice start and works well with the new super-fast Firefox.
  • by Firefox user 13434881, 7 years ago
  • by nikos, 7 years ago
    No documentation. The user is just expected to know all the features. It's promising but without documentation useless.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    I totally agree! Thanks for trying it out.

    We currently have some documentation on the new tab page and if you press colon, type "help" and then press enter. It isn't ideal as it is pretty much developer documentation, but it should give you an idea of the commands available.

    Where we are totally failing is in giving feedback to users with error messages, and documenting the current bindings - but that's coming soon; we are also very bad for first time users of anything Vim-like, but an introduction for those people is quite a low priority because there are ~20K people for whom Vimperator will stop working on Tuesday, and we want to help them first.

    Thanks again for giving us a go, and for the feedback.
  • by JakeyB, 7 years ago
    An open source Vimperator replacement? Yes please.