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Timing of this article is perfect in the sense that I am in the market for such a plugin. Has anyone tried this? Good? Anything better? Thanks!

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Tridactyl is pretty useable, and deceptively powerful, but I might be biased because I wrote a lot of it.

Competitors that run on Firefox include:

- Vimium-FF

- Surfingkeys

- Vim-Vixen

- Saka Key

- Vvvimpulation

Further afield, there's:

- Vrome

- cVim

- Qutebrowser

Qutebrowser is the only thing that rivals us for capability, but I like Gecko's font rendering too much, and like using other WebExtensions.

All of the rest probably beat us in terms of polish.

Edit: quite a few of those I mentioned are unmaintained, if you care about that.

I'm using Saka Key - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saka-key. It has almost everything I missed from pentadactyl and I love it!

Once I got used to Vimperator, I found myself feeling like my functional IQ dropped by ten points without it. Tridactyl is rapidly getting to where Vimperator left off; I no longer feel like I'm missing anything. Deeply grateful that I don't have reason to swap to Chrome.

I use vimium on Chrome. Love it - can barely use a browser without it these days. It's worth using alone just for the ability to easily click links without ever touching the mouse.

second vimium. It's not quite as hardcore as vimperator, but at the end of the day I don't really find myself missing it too much since switching over. vimium also has (IMO) better defaults (alphabetical vs. numeric link highlighting, bigger distance traveled with hjkl navigation, etc.)

fwiw one can use the '(single quote character) in firefox to easily find and visit links without using the mouse. Quite handy and available out of the box

https://blog.mozilla.org/theden/2012/12/20/quick_find/

I've been using Tridactyl with ff quantum for quite some time now and I think it works extremely well. I make a few tweaks to the keybindings and I'm off to the races.

I personally like that Tridactyl adds fast vi emulation without making changes to the firefox interface. The only problem is that vi keybindings don't work on some pages, which is why tridactyl includes its own new tab page.

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