Reviews for Tridactyl
Tridactyl by Colin Caine, Oliver Blanthorn
455 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 5 out of 5by bart9h, 7 years agoHere's hoping that this will become a worthy successor to Vimperator
- 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 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 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
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14000582, 7 years agoThe extension is well-written and works pretty well! There are a few bugs, but nothing significant, and development is active and focused.
I would appreciate a little more documentation on the various features though.
Nonetheless, an essential addition to firefox! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13989448, 7 years agoGreat alternative to vimperator since it's not supported in firefox.
Great keybinds and the tutor is easy to follow. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13988718, 7 years agoThis is awesome addon that takes place of pentadactyl/vimperator and such.
It still under heavy development but it already useful and moves in a right direction.
The road the developers take is to make it more like vimperator rather pentadactyl somewhy, given the name is closer to penta :) But nevertheless it awesome.
Thanks guys!