4-speeddial-extension-options-for-firefox
4 Speed Dial extension options for firefox
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/05/4-speeddial-extension-options-for-firefox/Posted Sep 5th 2008 1:00PM by Lee Mathews
Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers
Opera's speed dial might be a cool feature, but there's no way it's going to make me stop using Firefox. It did, however, prompt me to take a look at the addons site to see what options the Firefox developer community had come up with.
For thumbnailed pages,
SpeedDial and
FastDial (pictured) are both nice options. They don't build your pages automatically, but they're both highly customizable. Right click a tab, send it to your dial page. Easy.
I prefer SpeedDial for its support of hotkeys: ctrl+# opens the page in SpeedDial tab, ctrl+shift+# opens it in a new one. FastDial does allow more thumbnails on the page, and it also lets you drag your pages to reorder them, which is handy.
Autodial works, but it looks like Hell. Imagine your most visited pages as a big pot of jumbalaya. Autodial dips a ladle in and flings it at your face. For some reason, left and right clicking both activate your links - I was hoping to be able to right-click and pull up an options menu, but was thwarted.
If you want to configure it, you'll have to venture into the about:config page and hack away.
If you prefer the DIY approach, give
Autohome a look. The name is a little misleading, as the auto ends with the letter o in its name. The extension adds a home icon in your status bar that allows you to embed a link to the current page in your Autohome. It supports grouping by folders, and the look is fully customizable if you're willing to edit the CSS and XSL.
