A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
The first thing I do when I work in an editor with a mini-map is -- turn it off. I find it mostly the most useless feature for coding, and for sites it seems to be equally useless. Why?<p>1. Stuff is too small to really make out where I'm going or navigating.<p>2. Short or long pages, both don't really benefit from the loss of screen real-estate. Or the distraction really.<p>3. Other tools like a proper index with descriptive headers, or the search function work so much better to navigate the page.<p>Where mini-maps could be awesome are large images, or maps. They tend to visual in nature, and when zoomed in you can look at the mini-map to see where you are in the whole. Which is useful.<p>So, cool future, but this doesn't really seem like a great implementation.