Speed Dial

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Enorym on Aug. 12, 2009 · permalink

Hi there, I'm a former FastDial user and i have to say that i really like Speed Dial, It never failed me and it doesn't gets messed up when updates come out. However there are some things that -in my personal opinion- needs some work

1) Playing with the settings can be a bit tough at times. Especially the panel width / Height options. I tried to "replicate" the exact look of opera's speed dial (small "thumbnails" in the center of the screen etc) and while i managed to do it eventually by "playing" with the settings, I failed to "keep" the same look in other groups i created with 1 row of 4 tabs and so goes. everything had too much height or too much width. I went through the addon's manual but i couldn't find any reference to those settings. Maybe a friendlier to the end user UI ?

2) Syncing! Back when i was using Fast dial, there was a particular feature that i really liked, in fact it was the only one: Addon's settings and sites where being saved in bookmarks, so Weave could pick them up and sync them with all my machines, without much hussle. I understand that there is an Export/Import option in speed Dial as well, but seamless syncing is always better in my opinion!

3) And this is something really minor, -maybe it's just my mind anyway- but i noticed that hovering over thumbnails is "slow" like there is a delay in the hover effect or something, While this is no biggy it gives me the feeling of a slow program (which of course isn't!) Some settings to "mess" with the hover-over-thumbnails effects would be a good thing too!

Appart from those minor things that i would like to see improved, i really like this addon! in fact, this should come pre-installed with every firefox version out there!