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Group Speed Dial by Juraj Mäsiar

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  • by White Diver, 4 months ago
    On the 4K monitor only the upper left corner of thumbnail is shown. There is a lot of settings for width, height, scale, resolution - but nothing helps to show thumbnails correctly (i.e. normal picture shrinked to the thumbnail size).

    Developer response

    posted 4 months ago
    Hello,
    Could you send me a screenshot of the problem?
    Also, could you reload one of the thumbnails and then go to the main menu (upper right corner) and click Advanced / Send error logs... and then send me the logs on email.

    Unless Firefox changed something, it should works fine even on high-resolution screens.
    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by seven, 5 months ago
    reason i give only 3 is because, you cant link dials to bookmarks, so if i want to delete 1 dial will not be deleted from bookmarks, that mean i need to make two tasks in order to delete a page
  • by Cael79, 5 months ago
    It's not as good as Speed Dial [FVD] were. But it's the best we got right now.
  • by Firefox user 5884167, 5 months ago
    Good, but monthly payment for Pro Version? Ridiculous!
  • by Firefox user 14766181, 5 months ago
  • by Ландграф71, 5 months ago
    Есть несколько недочетов. Во-первых при включении отображение подписей к дилам и нажатии на кнопку раскрытия списка групп, подписи перекрывают список групп. Во-вторых при экспорте настроек и дилов - экспортируются только те группы, которые помещаются на экране монитора. Ну и мелочь, но все же, маловато иконок сайтов. Нет даже таких как Intel, AMD, Nvidia. А в целом - неплохо. Удобно,что экспортируемые настройки не шифруются. А то, как в случае с FVD, вы можете потерять все закладки.

    There are a few downsides. Firstly, when you turn on the display of signatures for dials and click on the button to expand the list of groups, the signatures overlap the list of groups. Secondly, when exporting settings and speed dials, only those groups that fit on the monitor screen are exported. Well, a trifle, but still, there are not enough site icons. There are not even people like Intel, AMD, Nvidia. On the whole, not bad. Conveniently, exported settings are not encrypted. And just like with FVD, you can lose all your bookmarks.
  • by Firefox user 15271221, 5 months ago
  • by eboyd16, 6 months ago
    This addon looks like a good replacement for FVD. Be aware that the only way to get a Pro account is by join his Patreon. It will cost $36 a year for the Pro features. I am cool will giving devs some cash for making something useful. Forced into a monthly sub for more features is going to far. It's your product you do what you want. I will be looking for something different.

    Developer response

    posted 6 months ago
    Hello,
    I'm preparing a better pricing that won't include Patreon. Hopefully in January after I upgrade my server code.
    But until then, I can give you a nice discount if you contact me to my support email.
    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Firefox user 14124440, 6 months ago
    Works well after a steep learning curve. Only showstopper I found was after meticulously setting it up in Firefox and exporting including thumbnails, it fails to import that file into a fresh install on Chrome. Ideally, this local export should make any browser it's imported into look exactly the same, wallpaper, sizes, and thumbnail pics.

    5 stars if this is possible and works, along with adding the ability to globally make "Center (contain)" the default.

    Developer response

    posted 6 months ago
    Hello,
    Yeah, the "Center (contain)" should be default for custom images, I will fix this in the upcoming release.

    Also, you say import in Chrome failed? That's sounds impossible, it's build from the same source code, it must work :). I will investigate now. And you are right, after the import it will look exactly the same.

    If you have a lot of dials and thumbnails, the import may take a while depending on your drive speed (slow SSD can take a whole minute or more to import 40MB backup file).
    Could you please write me to my support email what was the size of the exported file? And was there some error written? And did the dials at least partially imported?
    Thanks!

    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Artyom, a year ago
    not very convenient ,you cannot select a folder of Wallpapers and set flexibly the mode change Wallpaper by time of day/week/month/ panel* bookmarks (take the example as Vivaldi and opera gx) is small and the publicity (put up) though this extension ,and of the rare updates. Thank you!
  • by Woody100, 2 years ago
    After using this for years there is a problem. The images are not displaying properly and are leaking from an adjacent tile. This seems to be an auto-reload problem as I can reload the image manually as it works fine.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello,
    Thanks for reporting, I will investigate and fix it in the next release probably within a week.
    Have a nice weekend :)
    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Firefox user 13454232, 2 years ago
  • by Loa, 3 years ago
    Everything was perfect until I updated FF several days ago, and then Speed Dial started to crash FF and itself also. Now it dont even show my bookmarks and groups, and shows an error.

    Environment health-check error: Error
    Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
    o@moz-extension://62dfe56a-2f32-44ce-8578-8095c19094be/dial.js:1:19374

    Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.

    Environment: Group Speed Dial 14.0; info: os: win, arch: x86-64; name: Firefox, vendor: Mozilla, version: 70.0, buildID: 20191016161957;
    Running time: 4712 / 22017769
    Stats: NA - 12,12,11
    Runtime errors:
    error getting runtime errors: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
    Version: 14.0; OS: {"os":"win","arch":"x86-64"}; Browser: {"name":"Firefox","vendor":"Mozilla","version":"70.0","buildID":"20191016161957"};

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hello,
    Please contact me to my support email if the problem persist.
    But in general this is a Firefox specific error that often disappears after restarting Firefox or whole PC.
    If you can see it even after the restart, then I would suggest you to reinstall my add-on. But make sure to export your dials to a file first - from the Options page / Import backup tab (you can export also your thumbnails).

    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Firefox user 15299695, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 11478734, 3 years ago
    Excellent, except compatibility issues with First Party Isolation.

    The thumbnail images are not shown and not able to successfully refresh them.

    When disabling First Party Isolation and restarting Firefox, then for 1 time images are shown. And then, again, there are no thumbnail images.

    Windows 10, any Firefox edition.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hello,

    Interesting... so it seems that the "First Party Isolation" will isolate whole add-on (not just the new tab) into a special container - so thumbnails needs to be created in both .
    This is different from "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" which isolates only a tab.

    Anyway, since whole add-on is running in in isolation, there is no way to access thumbnails from different "sandbox".
    The only way to fix this would be to replace the IndexedDB database used for thumbnails (which is being isolated) and replace it with normal storage. However I would have to add "Unlimited storage" permission (because thumbnails and backups usually takes more than 5MB of storage).
    This is a problem because ALL of my users will be prompted to agree with a new permission.

    So this is really bad.
    I can also see that it breaks the cloud synchronization which is using cookie - this is also very hard to fix.

    Anyway - as you can see, there is no easy solution.
    The only thing I could do is introduce some "Auto create all missing thumbnails" option that will help you create missing thumbnails when you enable/disable isolation.

    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Firefox user 15072598, 3 years ago
    recently i keep losing allmy dials everytime i restart my pc.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hello,

    You are not alone. Firefox has some issues recently and users are loosing all add-ons data, not just in my add-on. See for example this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530660

    But there is way to recover it even if you don't have backups. Firefox in version 66 migrated all add-ons data to a new storage and during this process they created a backup file - "storage.js.migrated".
    You can use this file to restore your data, see this article:
    https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/08/03/new-backend-for-storage-local-api/
    After you located the file, you can actually directly import that file into my speed dial - just rename it to "xxx.group_speed_dial" and then import.

    And lastly, maybe you Firefox just switched profiles. You see, Firefox 67 started to use separate profile for each installation - this is a good thing to prevent some serious issues, however for some users this actually caused "data loss" because their Firefox was suddenly using a new profile. But all you need to do is switch to a correct profile. See this article for more info:
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-67-switching-to-empty-profiles-causing-data-loss-fears/

    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Firefox user 15064207, 3 years ago
  • by MatsSvensson, 3 years ago
    Nice, but i wish it would just work like the original speed dial.
    It keep opening an extra invisible window, how do I turn that off?
    And the rules for rendering thumbs makes no sense at all.
    Why are there separate settings for how its rendered when its reloaded and 2-3 various other ones that seem to be triggered at random?
    Whatever you do to finally get it to look sharp, after a while it always ends up looking like a crap later.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hello,
    The thumbnails generation is very complex process now. Sadly the API that was available before for the SpeedDial is not available anymore.
    There are three options for generating thumbnails and each of them has some advantages and some disadvantages.

    But the best results are from the background reload - which works in the invisible tab. These thumbnails should be sharp.
    This method is by default used when you add a new dial (unless you use "Add this page to dial" from context menu on a page).

    You can also use reload by visiting page which also yields good thumbnails and it works on any page.

    I will try to simplify the options in near future for easier usage...
    Also feel free to contact me directly on my support e-mail.

    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by lu-pak, 3 years ago
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  • by Firefox user 14605817, 3 years ago
    Несколько групп диалов это удобно. НО ЧТО С МИНИАТЮРАМИ, ОНИ ВСЕ ПУСТЫЕ.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hello,
    Just click the "Create all thumbnails" button or from the main menu click "Refresh dials".
    If there is some other issue, please contact me to my support e-mail.

    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar
  • by Firefox user 14263949, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14559069, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14535398, 3 years ago
    ist fast alles in Englisch, aber ich bin Deutscher und kann es nicht lesen. vor allen die Bewertungen.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hello,
    My add-on is localized to German, there should be no English words. Make sure you have German Firefox installed or install German language pack:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deutsch-de-language-pack/?src=search
    Please let me know to my support e-mail if it didn't help.
    Best regards,
    Juraj Mäsiar