These plugins just never work quite as well as a browser made specifically for it, namely Qutebrowser. Trouble with Qutebrowser is that’s it’s Python and parsing a lot of links slows it down. Still the best browser out there for this use case though, as far as I know.
How does it compare to tridactyl?
I love that these extensions exist and in theory they sound awesome. Unfortunately for a few reasons I’ve never been able to get in the habit of using Tridactyl (or any vim browser addon):
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it doesn’t play nice with Google drive apps (which my company uses extensively), so if I use the vim shortcuts to cycle between tabs and open a Google doc, the next time I try to cycle tabs it will instead start typing in the document. (Alternatively I would never be able to interact with Google docs without manually enabling ignore mode)
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hint mode works really well for some sites but a lot of sites have multiple anchors close together (eg one for an icon, one for text and one behind both) which leads to longer hints and difficulty figuring out which hint to actually use
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Firefox doesn’t allow you to rebund the default “/” search (quick find) cycle keys. The default is c-G for next (not sure about previous); I would like to use n/N
On simple and well-designed “dumb” webpages it works amazing. I wish more sites were designed that way, but unfortunately a lot are made with the assumption of a mouse/touchscreen :(
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surfingkeys_ff/
SurfingKeys is another such extension and my favorite one. In addition to the Vim like controls, it supports ton of additional functionality, including editing content in a small Vim like editor with I when needed (:wq will close popup window and update the text in the edit field), supports Vim marks with m, copy url with yy or many other clipboard related stuff, is configured in JavaScript, so you can access to anything what the browser does directly.
BTW screenshots were taken by opening the help with ? (Shift+/) on a webpage, and then using the its own screenshot capability to capture scrolling element yS. Which will only capture this element, not the entire webpage, in this case the help.
help
settings
This seems sketchy : https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1796
https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1796#issuecomment-1222346944
That is an old resolved issue, as far as I can tell.
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Do you exit it with escape colon q bang?
