Group Speed Dial by Juraj

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

Import dials popular add-ons including "Speed Dial by Josep del Rio" add-on - through Options page => Import / backup. See a tutorial video here (1:01).

NOTE: if you experiencing Performance issues when opening dials page - this can be caused by add-ons like "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.

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:

• DE - German
• ES - Spanish
• PT - Portuguese
• FR - France
• RU - Russian
• SK - Slovak
• UK - Ukrainian

I'm looking for volunteers to translate it to other languages, currently especially Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. I takes about 3 hours to make a new translation.
Big THANKS to all existing translators!


Known Firefox issues: (please up-vote any of these)

• 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
• 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 local files - protocol "file://" - are supported, however clicking them is currently forbidden by Firefox security
• 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

Known issues:
(note: many of known issues are related to thumbnails generation - this can be avoided by using context menu option "Add this page to dial" - this method works every time without issues)

• the default "Refresh dial" may not work for some highly protected pages like Facebook or banks
• the default "Refresh dial" is fragile - if you interrupt it, it will stop and won't generate thumbnail (but since we cannot generate thumbnails in background, this is currently the only way)
• thumbnail may get generated from not fully loaded page - some pages uses AJAX to load content asynchronously - try to use reload with delay (+5s) or increase "Normal reload fixed delay" in options
• right click won't work in Linux / Mac when using FireGestures add-on or other old API add-on listening on right click event. Try to use different gesture addon, like "Mouse Gestures Suite" or desktop application like StrokeIt.

Features coming in future releases (not in this order):

• much better thumbnail generation - with good resolution even when done with not maximized window
• 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
• scrollable groups
• ... and some others that will be a surprise :) - don't worry, no blinking ads are coming on my watch!

Recently added features:

• Version 9.6
• 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
• Version 8.9
• added option to hide login part only (Login/Create account, or user name if it's logged in)
• disabled automatic reload for group-dials if they have custom thumbnail
• clean-up of Options page
• enabled Czech language using Slovak translations (we can understand each other :))
• fixed import bug that was breaking upload/download thumbnails
• Version 8.8
• added option to update dial title on reload
• added option to disable JavaScript when generating thumbnail
• fixed scaling issue for Auto-Reload
• fixed downloading thumbnails for multiple groups
• Version 8.7, 8.6, 8.5
• "Crop / Scale" feature is FINALLY HERE! Works with Auto-reload and also default "Reload dial"!
• added 'moz-extension:' protocol
• fixed Auto-reload swapped Week-days and Weekends
• added support to disable F4 and Ctrl + 0 short-keys
• Version 8.4
• Auto-reload is here! - currently as Experimental feature so please report bugs (page crop feature will come soon)
• fixed broken color picker in Firefox ESR (this is actually a Firefox bug)
• added option to open dials in New window
• Version 8.3, 8.2, 8.1, 8.0, 7.9, 7.8
• added option to disable Ctrl / Alt / Shift / CMD keys when using with "Ctrl + Number for Group Speed Dial" add-on
• preparing for Auto-reload feature release (most of the code is done, I just need to test it properly)
• context menu of group-dials now contains "Edit group" item (now you can edit groups even if you hide the topbar)
• fixed short-key Ctrl + 0 to dial 10-th dial (when using with "Ctrl + Number for Group Speed Dial" add-on)
• added 'view-source:' protocol support (reloading in iframe is broken but the shortcut works)

How to (FAQ):

• set it as Homepage (video 0:33) - in Options page / General tab on the first line click "Copy link" button
• change number of dials in current group - right click group name (upper-left corner) and click "Edit group"
• add new group - by adding "group dial" -> click empty dial and select "Create new group", OR right click current group and select "Create new group"

Compatibility:

• fully compatible with new Electrolysis e10s multiprocess version of Firefox.
• addon is compatible with Firefox 51 and newer - however to be able to override "New Tab" page you need at least Firefox 54 or use New Tab Override addon (video tutorial is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnCOslP2pA)

Credits:

• icons by Font Awesome

Note:
This add-on is in active development and there are many new features on the way!



Contribution:
I'm developing this add-on in my free time and I've already spend more than 900 hours on this project.
Please consider supporting my work by donation or becoming my Patron.
Thank you :)