Comments on: Auto Dial for Firefox: Fast Access to Your Most Visited Sites

By: ameo

ameo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:56:14 +0000

i do like to have a blank page as opening the sites that i’m used to visit daily isn’t that hard to remember

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:35:30 +0000

There is no options or preferences of any kind. I want to see some domains but no others.

What if I don’t wanna see my porn there? What if there’s another users on my machine and they find my porn by looking at this?

Useless without preferences. When are developers going to realize that.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:20:47 +0000

I want that in Fx3.1! It makes sense to take advantage of the blank slate of a new tab.

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:53:29 +0000

I just realized Auto Dial is NOT the addon I was remembering. My comments above are about Fast Dial. I apologize for any confusion my…congusion…may have created.

Yes, Ryan, a lot of people love the Opera Speed Dial. Maybe the speed increase of FF 3.x will make it possible. I keep trying Speed Dial and Fast Dial every few months and they still disappoint. They’ve always, “missed it by that much…”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:17 +0000

Fred Thompson wrote:

Auto Dial and Speed Dial seem like great addons until you’ve used them for a while. They are slow, don’t refresh robustly and ignore censoring addons.

I think Opera's use of Speed Dial is a bit better than that of Firefox's. The refresh speed isn't even noticeable for me on Opera.

By: Mayor of Kentonville

Mayor of Kentonville — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:54:13 +0000

This is awesome, I tell ya, the fine folk making these add-ons know what you want before you do.

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:11:04 +0000

Auto Dial and Speed Dial seem like great addons until you’ve used them for a while. They are slow, don’t refresh robustly and ignore censoring addons. CybernetNews is a great example. Set it to be one of the thumbnails and what do you see? The banner logo, links, etc. at the top of the page dominate. Try it with SnapFiles. What do you see? The banner garbage fills the entire thumbnail. The idea of thumbnail is to quickly see what is new so you can decide if you want to navigate to that site. A thumbnail filled with static “I love me” crap from the top of the home page kills the idea. One of those 2 thumbnailers (I don’t remember which, sorry) does give a nice large preview during mouseover. Auto Dial is quite intrusive, similar to the way Thumbstrips inserts itself into multiple places. Speed Dial has been broken for the past few releases and the links to the support forum are inconsistent.

By: Omar Upegui

Omar Upegui — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:17:06 +0000

I prefer to have a blank new tab so I can download other Websites to support an entry I’m working on. I never did like what Opera did with Speed Dial. I understand it’s a matter of preferences; other would love it.