LinkHints are duplicated on pages with plenty of links
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Description
Describe the bug
On pages that have plenty of links, such as news.ycombinator.com, some link hints are reduced.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to URL news.ycombinator.com
- Click 'f', guess a starting letter to remove some hints and carefully look for duplicates.
In the below screenshot you can see that 'IIA' is the uppermost and the lowermost link hint.
Browser and Vimium version
Firefox: 91.0.2
OS: Debian Bullseye
Vimium: 1.67
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue on news.ycombinator.com by clicking 'f' and filtering link hints until duplicates such as 'IIA' appear. Trace the link-hint filtering and rendering entry points, then verify that each remaining hint is unique after filtering.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100