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+1 my thoughts exactly. It would be so nice if Firefox allowed tridactyl full keyboard control. With qutebrowser, having a proper control mode and an insert mode that work everywhere makes it so much easier to navigate.

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Mozilla said they were happy to do that five years ago if we wrote the API. We started work on it here [1] but lost interest because there have always been more urgent things to do (and for me, the ctrl+comma escape hatch that gets you back to Tridactyl from anywhere in the browser is good enough).

I think honestly most of the work in getting such an API merged would be political since most of the people who approved it are no longer at Mozilla.

If anyone wants to pick it up I would be delighted to help.

[1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/keyboard-api

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