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Just tried this one, works great on M1 Max. No delays.

I'm using it on a M1 Max and it's pretty slow to initialize the yellow key options... even when the setting is on "immediate".

I took a screencast: https://imgur.com/a/xL5CgJ2

With Vimium when you hit "f" it actually appears immediately. It takes a full second with Shortcat.

The app in the screencast is Firefox; if you run Accessibility Inspector.app and try to inspect, for instance, the "NN minutes ago" link text in your comment, this is what it looks like in Firefox [0] and this is what it looks like in Safari [1].

Firefox (and Chrome) look like giant completely opaque windows to the macOS accessibility API, the only things you can "see" to click on are the close/minimize/maximize buttons, whereas Safari exposes its entire interface and a lot of the web page to the API.

It looks like Homerow is somehow scraping a short list of apps, "Popular non-native apps such as Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Arc, Visual Studio Code, Spotify, Slack, Discord, and Obsidian are supported. I'm working on supporting more non-native apps." I don't know how shortcat etc do it.

[0] https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-04-07.bmgoq2rkwxqmy28... [1] https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-01-44.gdj1z3ukbq712zw...

Yep, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

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