philc / philc/vimium

Link hint (f): aggressive / configurable duplicate links suppression

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Description

Present: many forums, galleries and random sites got duplicate "link hints" (f) which make selecting right more complicated than needed or turns a page into xmax-link-tree.

Expected: more robust or configurable mechanism to suppress duplicate links

Examples: www.reddit.com (please add more, good for test)

Google Chrome 54.0.2840.71 (Official Build) m (32-bit)
Vimium 1.57

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the duplicate link hints on www.reddit.com using Chrome 54 and Vimium 1.57, then collect additional sites that show the problem. Define what suppression should consider a duplicate and how configuration should work; done means link hints remain useful without turning pages into link trees.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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