gleeBox
Productivity
browser navigation
SHOW HN2010
39points
31comments
#46of 370 in 2010
Top 13%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Docs: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for reducing mouse use
From 2 comments
I love it. I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I was a Vimperator user for quite a while, but just couldn't use it anymore. I ran into too many issues, and…
dylanz on HNYou should definitely make this configurable. I used to use hit a hint (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1341), but found it would sometimes capture _all_ presses…
hugothefrog on HN
Easier than Vimperator for non-Vim users
From 1 comment
gleeBox and vimperator differ a lot in the way they work even though their core functionality is the same, that is to aid in navigation. And, with gleeBox, you can do a lot more…
ankit_ on HN
Objections
Hints feature for selecting links by number is missing
From 1 comment
Hey great work on your plugin! But I must say I'll stick with vimperator, and this would be for the love of just one feature: Hints. Hints allow you to select a link, either by…
hyyypr on HN
Using ! as the command character is awkward to type
From 1 comment
I like it, but here's one big issue: Using ! as the command char is a pain. It's two combined keystrokes to produce that character. If you used a dot (.) or a space ( ) as the…
nixy on HN
Screencast voice is hard to hear
From 2 comments
You should really remake the screencast, I can barely hear the voice.
snitko on HNWell, the sound level is okay, but I can barely understand what he says.
middus on HN
Requests
Configurable command character
From 2 comments
I like it, but here's one big issue: Using ! as the command char is a pain. It's two combined keystrokes to produce that character. If you used a dot (.) or a space ( ) as the…
nixy on HNThanks for the feedback, will toy with the idea of custom modifiers. We experimented with a couple of other options before choosing !, it just felt right in combination with the…
sam33r on HN
Keyboard shortcut to play Flash video
From 1 comment
1. I would love if you can add a feature to click the 'play' button on a flash video through the keyboard shortcut. For example on your own page http://thegleebox.com/ there is a…
sid- on HN
Direct search engine shortcuts without yubnub
From 1 comment
1. I would love if you can add a feature to click the 'play' button on a flash video through the keyboard shortcut. For example on your own page http://thegleebox.com/ there is a…
sid- on HN
Pin gleeBox across page refreshes
From 2 comments
1. I would love if you can add a feature to click the 'play' button on a flash video through the keyboard shortcut. For example on your own page http://thegleebox.com/ there is a…
sid- on HNWe actually tried to implement the #1 feature. But, as it turns out, there is no easy way of doing that via JavaScript. It definitely would've been awesome. For #3, we…
ankit_ on HN
Login command for websites
From 1 comment
Also How about implementing login functionality to websites with such a command ? lo::facebook (could use your save username/password in firefox) or lo:facebook -u username -p…
sid- on HN
Questions
How link selection works without TAB cycling
From 2 comments
Hey great work on your plugin! But I must say I'll stick with vimperator, and this would be for the love of just one feature: Hints. Hints allow you to select a link, either by…
hyyypr on HNThanks. The default behavior of gleeBox is to search for links when you enter any text. So, you can simply enter a part of the text of the link you want to go to. If multiple…
ankit_ on HN
Issues with Vimperator that motivated the switch
From 1 comment
Would you mind expanding on the issues you ran into with Vimperator?
stanley on HN
Alternatives named
Vimperator
From 3 comments
I use vimperator for firefox, it uses vim-style command-line. Works great and is extensible. http://vimperator.org/
proemeth on HNHey great work on your plugin! But I must say I'll stick with vimperator, and this would be for the love of just one feature: Hints. Hints allow you to select a link, either by…
hyyypr on HNgleeBox and vimperator differ a lot in the way they work even though their core functionality is the same, that is to aid in navigation. And, with gleeBox, you can do a lot more…
ankit_ on HN
Uzbl
From 1 comment
Hey great work on your plugin! But I must say I'll stick with vimperator, and this would be for the love of just one feature: Hints. Hints allow you to select a link, either by…
hyyypr on HN
Google Experimental Labs search shortcuts
From 1 comment
On a related note, Google Experimental Labs lets you enable Vim-style navigational shortcuts for search results: http://www.google.com/experimental/
stanley on HN
Hit a Hint
From 1 comment
You should definitely make this configurable. I used to use hit a hint (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1341), but found it would sometimes capture _all_ presses…
hugothefrog on HN