This allows you to setup your own go-to list of sites according to task or function or time of day, or whatever you want. There are 9 (configurable) spaces per page and multiple pages can be added. The functionality is taken from Opera’s Speed Dial which allows a user to set their own websites on a screen just like the home page for Google Chrome. I can take a quick look and see if it is worth a click to go check out the deal of the day.

For example, one of my sites in one of my Speed Dial pages is Woot. It can even be used to tell if a website has been updated with a quick glance. Instead of just a list of sites, like bookmarks, Speed Dial has thumbnails of each site to help both with navigation and to jog your memory about what each site is based on a quick look. Functionality similar to Speed Dial’s should be the default home page of every web browser instead of just a list of the 9 most used or most recently used web sites. Speed Dial Plug-In Slows Down Firefoxįor those of you who aren’t familiar with the Speed Dial plug-in, it is the greatest improvement to Firefox, or any web browser since tabs.

I would click to open multiple tabs and then notice that they just sat there spinning the little circle graphic and taking forever to load.įirst, were the lame network.http settings recommended all over the Internet.

However, after a recent ill-advised attempt at speeding up a certain process that uses runs in a browser but isn’t a website per se, by tweaking the Firefox about:config file, I had an issue with my tabs taking forever to load, especially when I tried to open several tabs at once by CTRL-click. Sure, it was a memory hog, and still is to a certain extent, but in all fairness, when you routinely have over 20 tabs open as you go through your day, you can’t expect a tiny footprint. I’ve used Firefox for years now and always been very impressed with it.

Firefox opening multiple tabs