Tridactyl
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
1warn against
Dec 8, 2025first mention
Oct 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“without which I feel almost helpless in a browser”
“Indeed or https://tridactyl.xyz”
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“Let me introduce you to https://tridactyl.xyz”
“currently, I’m using Tridactyl for this purpose.”
typography nerdon “Dead Internet Theory”
“plugins like Vimium for Chromium based browsers (or Tridactyl for Firefox)”
Caveats and dissent
“it disables the default Ctrl-F search function but its own search function is subpar”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows 2 mentions
- Twelve Days of Shell 2 mentions
- A farewell to Arc browser 1 mention
- GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven 1 mention
- Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript 1 mention
- I have officially retired from Emacs 1 mention
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All comments 10
“I use Tridactyl for moving between tabs, though.”
“without which I feel almost helpless in a browser”
“Apparently Firefox needs to add an API for it first”
“Indeed or https://tridactyl.xyz”
“Let me introduce you to https://tridactyl.xyz”
“it disables the default Ctrl-F search function but its own search function is subpar”
“currently, I’m using Tridactyl for this purpose.”
“plugins like Vimium for Chromium based browsers (or Tridactyl for Firefox)”
Shameless shill - I found Tridactyl and Vimium to be frustratingly limited due to the security restrictions imposed on web extensions, so I've been working on https://glide-browser.app/ for a while; It's a fork of Firefox with (some) vim motions and a TypeScript based config.
“For Firefox, I use Tridactyl.”