Tridactyl tutorial

Hello.

Welcome to the Tridactyl tutorial. Here, you will learn how to get started with this extension. If you ever want to get back to this page, just type :tutor.

It will not cover advanced topics. For those, :help is always at hand.


Basics

The idea behind Tridactyl is to allow you to navigate the web more efficiently with just the keyboard. Tridactyl turns Firefox into a modal browser, meaning it has several different modes of operation, like Vim. It can only ever be in one mode at a time, and each of these modes could have a wildly different operation. You can think of it a bit like a Transformer, if you like. There are four main modes you will want to be familiar with:

Almost all of the modes are controlled by series of keypresses. In this tutorial, a sequence of keys such as zz should be entered by pressing the key z, letting go, and then pressing the key z. There is no need to hold both keys at once, if that were even possible. (zz resets the zoom level to the default, so it probably didn't seem to do anything). Sometimes help refers to a command that must be entered in command mode; it should hopefully always be clear from context which we mean.


Normal mode

The tutorial for normal mode starts on the next page. You could try following the link by using hint mode: press f (if there is only a single link on the screen, it will be followed; otherwise type the characters that appear above the desired link).