Tridactyl

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with Tridactyl, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 17 complaints

Disables Ctrl-F, and its own search lacks match counts and clashes with site search2026-04-28
J/k only scroll the page, so moving between feed articles requires awkward link-hinting2023-01-02
'/' shortcut sometimes does nothing in fields or sites where the extension lacks access2021-11-18
Vim keybindings stop working in reader mode, breaking scrolling and tab-switching flow2021-08-25
Interface behaves inconsistently because it gets disabled on some sites2020-09-30
Site keybinding for / hijacks search key and overrides keyboard navigation tool2020-09-30
Hijacks new tab page and moves focus away from URL bar, with no clear way to turn off2020-09-30
Search navigation with C-g is clunky and painful to use2020-09-30
Keyboard shortcuts fail about a quarter of the time due to focus problems2020-09-28
Keybindings don't work until pages load, forcing a switch to standard keys2019-08-16
Error pages steal focus from Tridactyl, forcing users to use Firefox shortcuts2019-02-17
Browser extension is slow or laggy on some pages like BitBucket2019-01-31
Native install step didn't work, so user had to do a risky manual step2019-01-29
Keyboard shortcuts don't work consistently, failing on error pages and input fields2018-09-05
New tab overwrites typed address when about:blank is inserted2018-06-22
Typed address gets overwritten when about:blank is inserted into new tab2018-06-22
Configuration options are poorly documented, so users don't know what's possible2018-06-21