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.
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:
GroupSpeedDial also features drag & drop, history, search, custom background, custom thumbnails, dial notes, automatic thumbnails generation and more!
Available in languages:
Big THANKS to all existing translators! (if I get rich one day, I will send you a big check!)
Features coming in future releases:
How to (FAQ):
Contribution:
Known issues:
Known Firefox issues: (feel free to up-vote any of these)
Recently added features:
Note:
Compatibility:
Credits:
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 (tw) - Traditional Chinese
- DE - German
- ES - Spanish
- FR - France
- PT - Portuguese
- RU - Russian
- SK - Slovak
- UK - Ukrainian
Big THANKS to all existing translators! (if I get rich one day, I will send you a big check!)
Features coming in future releases:
- random cool backgrounds from some subscribed services
- thumbnails for dials from URL and some nice predefined for popular websites
- 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 :)
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)
- if you experiencing Performance issues when opening dials page - this can be caused by add-ons, mostly "Flash Video Downloader" but also "Ghostery" or "AdBlock Plus" - please try to use different ad-block add-on, for example "uBlock". This needs to be investigated by Firefox team as add-ons should not have affect on each other.
- 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 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