Group Speed Dialby Juraj Mäsiar

Group Speed Dial a.k.a. visual bookmarks - lets you access your favorite pages anywhere / anytime in an organized fashion - using groups (folders) in the "New Tab" page.
All dials and thumbnails are synchronized between devices FOR FREE! (thanks to your donations)


See introduction video on YouTube (1:50) or visit www.fastaddons.com / Facebook / Twitter


Top features:

• cloud synchronization - synchronize your dials between devices and browsers - for free!
• registration with two clicks using your existing Gmail / Facebook / Twitter account
• cloud dials - access your dials in any browser, even in your phone!
• import from other popular add-ons
• active development!
• No Ads!

GroupSpeedDial also features drag & drop, history, search, custom background, custom thumbnails, dial notes, automatic thumbnails generation and more!


Available in languages:

• CN (zh) - Simplified Chinese
• CN (tw) - Traditional Chinese
• DE - German
• ES - Spanish
• FR - France
• PT - Portuguese
• RU - Russian
• SK - Slovak
• UK - Ukrainian

I'm looking for volunteers to translate my add-on to other languages, especially Hindi. It takes about 3 hours to make a full new translation using my special translation page (please contact me to my support e-mail for more info).

Big THANKS to all existing translators! (if I get rich one day, I will send you a big check!)


Features coming in future releases:

• sharing groups - ideal solution for sharing some useful "Work" group with your colleagues!
• private / secret / not visible groups (excluded from sync?) ;)
• dials in dials / smaller dials / custom sized dials - maybe not all of these but there are will be some serious upgrade!
• upgrade to Pop-up window with search for dials and some context menu and some custom options in options page
• better keyboard short-keys support - this is partially blocked by missing focus on page when New tab is opened
• fully customizable context menus
• ... and some others that will be a surprise :) - don't worry, no blinking ads are coming on my watch!

How to (FAQ):

• Set it as Homepage (video 0:33) - in Options page / first tab / first line click "Copy link" button and paste it in Firefox / Options / Home / "Homepage and new windows" - Custom URLs...
• Change number of dials in current group - right click group name (upper-left corner) and click "Edit group"
• How do I support this amazing Juraj guy? - by sending him a donation or becoming his Patron (ok nobody asks this, but I really need your help!)

Contribution:

• I'm developing this add-on almost full-time for nearly 3 years with minimum income.
  Please consider supporting my work by:
  
  • Patron
  • Buy me a coffee
  • PayPal donation
  
  Thank you! :)
  Your donation will help me keep this add-on working in future versions of Firefox!
  

Privacy and permissions:

• add-on by default makes NO remote requests to my Cloud server or Google or any other service!
• if user creates cloud account on https://group-speed-dial.fastaddons.com page, add-on will synchronize his dials with the cloud server
• there is NO tracking of visited pages or user activity! There is only history (backup) of changes made to your dials - stored locally on your PC and NOT synchronized with cloud.
• favicons are downloaded directly - if possible, else Google service can be used - MUST BE ENABLED by user in Options page first!
• permission "Access your data for all websites" in only used to get page title (used to set proper name of the dial) and monitor resolution (used to create thumbnail with correct resolution). My add-on cannot access anything else from pages you visit! Both of these scripts can be verified by checking "browser.tabs.executeScript" methods in "background_gsd.js" file.
• permission "Hide and show browser tabs" is used to create hidden tab, where thumbnails are created
• permission "Access browser activity during navigation" is only used while generating thumbnail!

Known issues:

• the default "Refresh dial" may not work for some highly protected pages like Facebook or banks - use "Refresh by visiting page" instead
• thumbnail creation is not perfect - some pages are loading their content asynchronously and thumbnail may be created incomplete - use delay function "+ 5s"

Known Firefox issues: (feel free to up-vote any of these)

• BEWARE - loosing all your data can happen if you downgrade back to Firefox ESR 60 from current Firefox! Luckily you can use "History / backups" feature in upper right corner menu to restore your dials data. More info here.
• dials to local files - protocol "file://" - are supported, HOWEVER clicking them is currently forbidden by Firefox security
• Ctrl + Tab switches to hidden Reloading tab
• in Firefox 61 the address-bar is not focused when opening new Firefox window
• in Firefox 61 changing New tab page to "about:home" doesn't work - use Firefox 60 ESR and vote for these bug1 bug2
• auto-reload will exit full-screen videos (until it's fixed in Firefox 62, enable "Keep reloading tab opened after reloading" in Options page / Thumbnails)
• if you setup GroupSpeedDial as homepage - opening very first Firefox window may show blank page and address-bar won't be selected, see also this bug
• Firefox prevents add-ons from using internal database when history is disabled. You can enable History in "Firefox / Options / Privacy & Security / History"
• common database corruption issues (IndexedDB API)
• dials to internal pages like "about:addons" or "about:debugging" and dials to other extension pages like "moz-extension://..." are forbidden by Firefox security

Recently added features:

• The list of changes in last versions is available here

Note:

• This add-on is in active development and there are many new features on the way!
  (I wrote this statement almost three years ago (in November 2016) and it's still true!)
  

Compatibility:

• fully compatible with new Electrolysis e10s multiprocess version of Firefox (57 and newer)
• addon is currently compatible with Firefox 51 and newer - however it will soon change to Firefox 60 (as the last supported Firefox version through ESR channel)

Credits:

• icons by Font Awesome

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