Fast Dial 2.9

Fast Dial replaces blank tabs with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites.


Ways to open Fast Dial page:

* Open a new tab (press Ctrl+T).
* Close all tabs. FD will be displayed in the last tab standing.
* Set "about:blank" as your home page address.
* Place FD toolbal button on the toolbar: right-click the toolbar, choose "Customize...", then find Fast Dial button (4 colored squares) and drag-n-drop it to the toolbar.


Ways to add new bookmark to Fast Dial:

* Open site you want to add in a tab. Then double-click "star" icon in browser address bar - bookmark properties dialog appears. Select "Fast Dial" folder in this dialog and click OK. That's it, bookmarks is added.
* Open site you want to add int a tab. Then switch to Fast Dial tab, click an empty cell - thumbnail Properties dialog appears. URL field has a drop-down with a list of sites currently opened in tabs. Select the site from list and click OK. Bookmark is added.


Features, new in version 2.x:

* Works only in Firefox 3
* Fast Dial bookmarks are stored as Firefox bookmarks (Bookmark Menu > Fast Dial subfolder). Thus it's possible to manage Fast Dial bookmarks using Firefox Bookmark Manager and Bookmark Sidebar.
* Every folder (group) has its own URL. Thus it's possible to open several different folders in different tabs simultaneously, which wasn't possible in FD 1.x. Folder thumbnails display folder contents.
* Appearance can be specified for each folder individulally.
* Every thumbnail can have arbitrary keyboard shortcut
* Maximum 3 thumbnails are refreshed simultaneously, thus preventing loading failures on slow internet connections.
* Conflict with WebDeveloper extension is fixed.


Other features:

* Check "Folder" checkbox in thumbnail Properties dialog to create folders
* Drag-n-drop a thumbnail to change its position. Alternatively use Bookmark Manager (menu Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks) or Bookmark Sidebar (Ctrl+B) to manage bookmarks.
* Move mouse over top-right thumbnail corner for popup buttons (Delete/Refresh/Properties) to pop up.
* Left click thumbnail and hold mouse button to see zoomed image
* Ctrl+right click thumbnail to open Firefox context menu

More info here.

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