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

NOTE: You can import your dials from popular add-ons including "Speed Dial by Josep del Rio" add-on - through Options page / "Import / backup". See the import video here (1:01).


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 2 years with minimum income.
  Please consider supporting my work by donation or becoming my Patron.
  Thank you :)
  

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 "cs_title.js" and "cs_screen_size.js" files.
• 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 63 or ESR from Firefox Beta or Nightly! 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
• infinite Height increase bug in Options page in about:addons page happens when you use + Zoom
• Firefox prevents add-ons from using internal database when history is disabled. You can enable History in "Firefox / Options / Privacy & Security / History"
• if you downgrade from Firefox 57 to any lower version (like 56 or ESR), your internal Firefox database will be corrupted and my add-on won't work, until you Reset your Firefox
• 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
• in Firefox 59 and lower - input in Pop-up window is not focused: link to bug
• in Firefox 58 and lower - if you setup GroupSpeedDial as homepage on several devices - with Firefox sync. enabled - Firefox will synchronize wrong URL (every add-on has different URL on different device) - you need to disable synchronizing homepage

Recently added features:

• Version 12.4
• added integration with MakeText.io web-page for creating custom text thumbnails (Thank you Kirby!)
• added zh-CN - Simplified Chinese translations! (Thank you!)
• Version 12.3
• added support for Blank thumbnails (or solid color thumbnails)
• integrated search (Ctrl + Shift + F) now takes focus from address-bar (when empty)
• fixed favicons download from Google
• fixed group thumbnails generation
• Version 12.2
• added new background option - "Bing image of the day" - 8 images that can be swapped from the main add-on menu on the dials page
• added new background option - "Web page as background" - can be used to have an animated backgrounds!
• background loading should be now much faster (without any flashes)
• added option to remember last opened group only while browser is running
• added option to speed-dial only from currently opened group
• fixed favicon downloading from Google
• Version 12.0
• added experimental thumbnail synchronization - FOR EVERYBODY FOR FREE! Before enabling this, make a backup first (by exporting your dials and thumbnails in Options page).
• added experimental thumbnails from Public library - for popular pages you can find nice vector images! See "Edit dial" / Thumbnail tab
• added upload to Public Library - share your custom thumbnails with everybody! Right click dial / Advanced / Upload thumbnail to public library.
• added custom background color for thumbnail feature - useful for transparent images
• added new category in the main menu - Quick options
• edited dial is now highlighted
• Version 11.1, 11.2
• fixed black flash when loading dials page and using white theme
• added new switch in Options page to open dials page when Firefox starts
• improved auto-fix of homepage issues due to Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490260
• added better errors handling when loading thumbnails
• Version 10.8
• added support for Export / Import of thumbnails!
• favicon download is now by default direct and only fallback can use Google API if enabled by user
• custom added new context menu - "Change thumbnail" for custom (or soon Public) thumbnails
• fixed confusing UI in Import / export options page
• Version 10.6, 10.7
• big performance upgrade (by switching to Blob images!)
• hotfix for Firefox start-up issues when my add-on page was not loaded or was only partially loaded (this covers many, but not all cases)
• fixed shadows colors when adding current page to dial
• Version 10.5
• added Traditional Chinese translations! (big thanks to Jeff!)
• fixed context menu sub-menus not fitting right
• improved algorithm for picking the best window for reloading - now wider windows are preferred more and small should be skipped
• added fail-safe for auto-reload when users window is too small
• added option to show only Root groups - those that doesn't have group-dial in another group (this can help reduce number of groups in top bar but still having access to all your groups)
• fixed broken favicons in Firefox 64 Nightly
• Version 10.4, 10.3
• added support for custom CSS styles from string (for experience users only!) - this allows you to make unsupported visual changes to your dials page!
• custom thumbnails shouldn't get replaced by auto-generated ever again
• thumbnails are now by default created in background
• added support for new thumbnail positioning (fill and cover - highly recommended)
• added support to open dial in new tab / window / incognito window (see the Settings tab in Edit dial window)
• added support for up-to 50 rows (raised from 20) - useful for long scrollable groups
• Version 10.2
• added basic support for Scrollable groups! - see Edit group / "Make group scrollable"
• fixed Slovak language for Czech Firefox
• Version 10.1
• dial will reload now when you change Crop/Scale
• increased timeout before taking shots (to fix the blank or empty dials)
• added "Replace dial" button when adding new dial - FINALLY!
• used wake-up detector to wait for PC to initialize network before starting Auto-reload
• added detection of Ctrl + Number for Group Speed Dial add-on to confuse less the people :)
• Version 10.0
• fixed broken thumbnails on Container tab (Firefox Multi-Account Containers)
• fixing "NotFoundError" for 0.1% users affected with rare Firefox error
• added Group-dialing feature (requires Ctrl + Number for Group Speed Dial add-on)
• Version 9.9, 9.8
• reduced memory consumption by up-to 90%!
• added Polish translations (big thanks to Daniel!)
• improved batched thumbnails reloading - now you can reload all thumbnails in background or using "by visit" method
• added import from "Fast Dial by telega"
• fixed bugs with shadows when disabled in Options page
• fixed removing empty group
• Version 9.6, 9.7
• fixed context menu submenus when opened on edge of the screen
• fixed broken context menu on Mac OS
• fixed import from Speed Dial 2 from Chrome version
• added bigger range for delay in auto-reload (20s)
• fixed wrong "Create thumbnail" button position if dial is too small
• activating a group will now scroll to that group in the group-list
• Version 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
• added Auto-reload Delay feature
• added "Reload in background" - this should replace default reload once we know it's fully functional!
• fixed blurry dials! - using new "Reload in background" feature we detect your monitor DPI and generate high resolution thumbnails!
• added transparent Group-dials! (when created using new "Reload in background")
• rebuild of context menus - now with icons and soon fully customizable! It also supports sub-menus now.
• "Reload by visit" will now fetch proper page Title as well
• missing thumbnails on dials now features new button - to reload all missing dials
• removed Super-speed feature :) as it was Super-confusing feature (it may return again...)
• improved errors handling / reporting plus added option to reload add-on to hot-fix strange Firefox run-time errors
• fixed showing of "invisible" reloading tab if the last tab in that window was closed
• fixed many bugs in Auto-reload feature
• added Portuguese translations (Thank you!)
• big internal refactoring to improve performance and for easier future upgrades
• Version 9.0, 9.1
• improved Drag and Drop - now you can navigate through group-dials AND you can drop dial on Group and it will put it on the first empty space
• fixed auto-reload for dials with disabled JavaScript
• big refactoring - migrated all code from chrome API to superior browser API!!! This should also fix some rare unexpected errors when opening dials page.
• some visual upgrades, changes in Options page and fixes
• minimum supported Firefox version is now 52 due to usage of Async / Await API

Note:

• This add-on is in active development and there are many new features on the way!
  (I wrote this statement two 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