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by drdeca 1871 days ago
The scrolling animation thing is kind of distracting to me. Also it gets stuck when I'm scrolling down, with the graphic not changing for a while, and then suddenly skips forwards through the animation a whole bunch.

Essentially analogous to an animated intro page that doesn't play quite properly, stuttering and skipping.

Genuinely harder to use than a simpler page. Have to scroll down rather slowly to be confident that I'm not missing any of what it says.

It isn't really clear to me what this is for either. There's no link to documentation for what it can do. It says you can search your tabs. Firefox ~~and chrome~~ [edit : apparently chrome doesn't have this?? In which case yeah I see the point of this extension now.] already have that. Just type "%" followed by your search term in the url box.

Something it mentions which seems like it might be useful to me is the ability to close tabs, but it isn't clear quite what it means by that. If it means "you can say to close all tabs that match a particular search string", or something like that, that would be useful.

But, the example it shows for commands has like, commands for the back button and forwards button. There are already keyboard shortcuts for those. This makes it seem like it is saying it lets you type in a command to close the current tab, which is useless because there is already a keyboard shortcut for that.

Is this supposed to be an extension which is a platform for other extensions? It is unclear. Maybe the github page has more information?

2 comments

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the scrolling animation UX is not very good in some situations, but I really wanted to try something like this as I had never built one before. I'll add a more accessible static version of the web page that users can toggle to if they find the scrolling one uncomfortable.

I agree that the documentation is almost non existent at this point, but would work on adding it in the coming weeks. The plan is to bring common browser actions and make them more accessible via the keyboard. The features present right now definitely have room for improvement, some of which are being discussed on the GitHub repo.

I kind of want to apologize for the amount of negativity in this comment. Sorry.

I see in other comments some points about the uses of this which I hadn't seen. These make me see more the potential usefulness of this.