Tridactyl overrides your newtab page because it cannot insert its content script on the default about:newtab. Without the content script, our shortcuts won't work, even if you're just passing through the page.
We're working with Firefox on improvements to the WebExtension APIs that will remove this restriction.
In the meantime, here are some notes about Tridactyl:
Tridactyl is in a pretty early stage of development. Please report any issues and make requests for missing features on the GitHub project page [1].
You can view the main help page by typing :help
You can contact the developers and other users and contributors for support, to discuss pull requests or whatever on Matrix, Gitter, or IRC.
Highlighted features:
b
to bring up a list of open tabs in the current window; you can type the tab ID or part of the title or URL to choose a tabI
to enter ignore mode. Shift
+ Escape
to return to normal mode.f
to start "hint mode", F
to open in background:help hint
to see all the other useful hint modeso
to :open
a different pages
if you want to search for something that looks like a domain name or URL:bind J tabprev
. Type :help bind
to see help on custom binds.:help
for online helpyy
to copy the current page URL to your clipboard]]
and [[
to navigate through the pages of comics, paginated articles, etc.ZZ
will close all tabs and windows, but it will only "save" them if your about:preferences are set to "show your tabs and windows from last time"There are some caveats common to all webextension vimperator-alikes:
:open
as it will fail silently.If you want a more fully-featured vimperator-alike, your best option is Firefox ESR [3] and Vimperator :)