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Then why stop using it?

The only website keybinding that really frustrates me is /, which many sites bind to their search feature. I don't understand why they do that. Don't web browsers already have page navigation features? Either the user is a mouse maid and can click the search field themselves, or they have a keyboard navigation tool such as Tridactyl and the binding just overrides the tool.

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I think page-specific keyboard-driven navigation has advantages. For example, in Gmail j/k navigates between email threads. I can't see that Tridactyl provides this functionality.

For the search functionality specifically, I guess it's possible to find a solution. The page-specific search shortcut will just focus a specific element on the page, and maybe that could be provided on a different shortcut in addition to /.

You can use unbindurl, so you can unbind tridactyl's j/k on mail.google.com, for example. Keys not bound in tridactyl are passed through to the page.

Because once it's disabled on some sites, I get annoyed by the inconsistent interface.

If it's just one or two binds that are causing issues on a site you can unbind them with `:unbindurl`.

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