Firefox 3.5 and Mouseless

[Daniel Molina]

2 minute read

I have recently changed to Firefox 3.5, and it is awesome!!

The main improvements I have checked:

  • Better performance.

  • Reader mode, it is very useful to read without distractions, specially in mobile. Also, it is mouseless friendly, with the shortkey Ctrl+Alt+r.

  • Screenshots of a website, that you can share with anybody (not more excuses for my students for not showing me their web app in develop).

The bad thing is that many extensions are not valid anymore:

  • Zotero has changed to be a java application, and the great Zotelo (extension for Emacs) is not working anymore :-(.

  • Also, several extensions to improve the mouseless navigation stop working.

Fortunately, uBlock Origin is still working, and I have found Tridactyl, an extension with several nice features:

  • f and F allows you to open links (in same tab or new) identifying them with letters (in a very sensible way, my favourive way until now).

  • b is bookmarks, it allows you to go to another open tab.

  • s is search mode using the history, with tab you can go your favourite website more easily.

  • And ZZ close all firefox tabs, very useful for a person with Vim-background like me :-).

To summarize, if you do not like use the mouse for almost everything, and you want to browse more easily, try Tridactyl.