# Tridactyl

> Vim, but in your browser. Replace Firefox's control mechanism with one modelled on Vim. This addon is very usable, but is in an early stage of development. We intend to implement the majority of Vimperator's features.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tridactyl-vim](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tridactyl-vim)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tridactyl-vim`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Colin Caine
- **Category:** search-tools,appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 4,808
- **Weekly downloads:** 240
- **Rating:** 4.91 / 5 (521 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.25.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2017-11-09
- **Size:** 5.42 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues](https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues)

## Description

**Tridactyl is a Vim-inspired extension that lets you control your browser entirely from the keyboard.** Common tasks are bound to a single key, for example: open a new tab with `t`, follow a link with `f` (using lower-case hints), jump to the bottom with `G` or the top with `gg`, and focus a search field with `gi`. It also supports tab switching, hints, and tutor/help commands like `:help` and `:tutor`. The goal is to mirror the Vim/Vimperator/Pentadactyl experience, offering customizable bindings, hint-based navigation, and powerful command binding to the browser.

**Development and availability:** Tridactyl is usable but in an early stage of development with beta builds available on the project site. To implement the full Vimperator feature set, the extension requests permissions to read page content, communicate with external programs, manage bookmarks, history, tabs, downloads, and more. The project is open source and aims to bring most of Vimperator’s functionality to modern browsers.

## Rankings

- #1,211 — Overall
- #97 — Tabs
- #127 — Search Tools
- #190 — Appearance
- #47 — fact
- #66 — grid

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `bookmarks`
- `browsingData`
- `contextMenus`
- `contextualIdentities`
- `cookies`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `clipboardRead`
- `downloads`
- `find`
- `history`
- `search`
- `sessions`
- `storage`
- `tabHide`
- `tabs`
- `topSites`
- `management`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `proxy`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Reviews are overwhelmingly positive: users praise Tridactyl for enabling fast, vim-style keyboard browsing, reducing mouse use, and becoming essential to their workflow. Several reviewers prefer it to Vimium for hinting/tab work. Few reviewers listed site-compatibility and hint/tabopen quirks, but those complaints were not repeated across multiple reviews.

### Pros

- Powerful vim-style, keyboard-driven browsing praised across reviews
- Greatly reduces mouse use — many say they can stay on the home row
- Users call it essential/‘can’t live without’ after using it
- Preferred to Vimium by some users (better hint/tab behavior in some cases)

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