Speed Dial for FireFox – A Must Have In Your Browser ToolSet

Speed Dial has been around for quite a while.  But have you really tried it out and seen how useful this is?  While it may slow down FireFox a little bit (small inconvenience if you manage it right), I love it.  Rather than hunt through a ton of favorites or even use Google’s tabs on my Google homepage, I like this even better because I don’t have to do anything to find my most used sites.  It’s right in my browser after I launch Mozilla.

Speed Dial saves me a lot of time because I can do several things:

1) Logically separate out my most frequently visited sites in tabs without hunting through the tedious & time consuming favorites menu.  I’m not a huge fan of favorites because for me even though organized, it just gets way too much to manage in the long run.

2) See thumbnails of them.  The visual aspect at least for me is nice and I love this

3) Create a tab for “things to read later”, where I can get rid of opened FireFox tabs/pages that I have open for the day (the more FireFox tabs you have open obviously will slow down FireFox).  Just throw the URL into a Speed Dial Tab called “Read later” and just follow-up with those great reads later

4) Ability to export my entire Speed Dial settings to another PC with just a couple clicks.

5) Complete control on # rows, # columns, and a ton of other values to control rendering quality, etc. to speed it up if I choose to make it more efficient

Here’s a small glimpse of how I’m using it to my advantage currently:

Notice you’re still going to have your standard FireFox tabs above it (I am just showing one at the moment “Speed Dial”).

Some may say it’s too resource intensive/heavy but I guess that depends on how you are using it and set it up in my opinion; Just make sure you don’t set it up to auto refresh though on each opening of FireFox.   Only force a manual refresh when you feel it’s necessary.

it’s pretty useful…give it a try. 

You can get it here.