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Speed Dial is a Firefox extension that allows you to have shortcuts for your bookmarks. Speed Dial lets you preview a grid of your 9 favorite or most visited sites into thumbnails for fast and easy browsing instead of the blank page you get when you add a new tab.

With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. You don’t have to scroll through your long list of bookmarks to find your favorite site. Just one-click, and you’re done.

It is similar to the Opera’s Speed Dial feature which opens top sites into 9 visual bookmarks that are available when open a new tab.

Speed Dial features:

• Speed Dial will open in a tab, showing the currently assigned websites as thumbnails.
• The Speed Dial tab can be loaded automatically in every new tabs and windows.
• The assigned websites can be loaded automatically by pressing the Control key and it’s assigned number.
• Drag & drop reordering.
• Add dialog when clicking an unassigned entry.
• Automatic refresh of thumbnails by using a background browser (with configurable interval per thumbnail).
• Toolbar buttons to access Speed Dial’s functionality (including a drop down of the assigned websites).

To assign one website to Speed Dial, you can use the new “Set as Speed Dial” option in the Bookmarks menu, and select the the slot where you want to assign the website in. Or you can right click on an unassigned slot of Speed Dial tab. A new “Add Dial” dialog will appear for you to add the website URL.

You can access the Speed Dial slot in 3 ways:

• Click on a Speed Dial tab. If you hold the “Shift” key while clicking, the URL will be opened in a new window. Holding the “Control” key, or using middle button click, will open the URL into a new tab.
• Use the “Speed Dial” button drop down list. Holding the “Shift” or “Control” keys, or using middle button, will behave like the previous option.
• Keyboard shortcuts. If at any moment you use the “Control” key and a number, the URL assigned to the Speed Dial slot with the same number will be opened.

Speed Dial will be automatically loaded in blank new windows. It can also load in blank new tabs. To configure this, and other options, use the extension settings panel.

You can download the latest version of Speed Dial from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810.

For more on how to use Speed Dial, visit the Getting started tutorial.