In Firefox you’ve always been able to assign a keyword to any bookmark, which would take you to that particular site if you type the keyword in the address bar and press Enter. That’s nice and all, but once you get a large number of shortcuts it can be tough to remember them all.
That’s where the SiteLauncher extension comes into play. You can setup all of your favorite sites and assign single-letter shortcuts to them. Then with a quick press of a hotkey (such as Ctrl+Space) you’re presented with a visually appealing list of shortcuts that is laid on top of the site you’re viewing. It serves as a good reminder of what letter you assigned to what site.
Want to know more? Here’s a quick rundown on the features:
- Create super quick keyboard shortcuts to URLs and bookmarklets you need access to often.
- Instant visual feedback from the Launcher panel means no need to actually memorize anything but the one hotkey.
- Just about any character key can be associated with a site, you’re not limited to a-z and 0-9.
- Highly customizable appearance – change colors, sizes, transparency, etc.
- Make use of shortcuts with visual feedback, using the Launcher hotkey; or without, using the Direct-to-Site hotkey.
- Arrange and group related shortcuts to have them appear together in a visually meaningful way.
- Set the Launcher to open sites in current or new tab
- Optionally set the Launcher to appear on startup instead of a regular homepage
If you’re feeling adventurous there’s an Alpha version available that also lets you choose the icon size, and to accommodate the mouse-centric users you no longer have to assign a letter to a shortcut.
SiteLauncher Homepage [Firefox only; free]
Sheesh, I must live under a rock. I’ve never used keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. This has motivated me to look into it. Seems like this plugin makes it pretty easy.
Yeah I wasn’t even aware that there were so many possible keyboard shortcuts available in Firefox. This plugin is a great help!
what I want from firefox is an adds-on let deal with favorites like IE7 and IE8.
because I want to open many fav’s in tabs without using my keybad.
Wow, I didn’t know FF had this option. This looks awesome. I’ll start using it, specially with this add.
Meshal, unless I misunderstand you, you can already do this in Firefox by middle-clicking on a folder of bookmarks. If I did misunderstand, perhaps a better explanation would get you pointed to what you want.