Speed Dial

Speed Dial provided a lot of help in the past with providing Firefox users with a neat, customized website selection tab. Since then, most browsers integrated this feature into their code, allowing the user to access a similar suggestion list each time a new tab is opened. However, if you've used this extension once and wish to retry it, you are more than welcome.

The whole functionality is based on the extension's icon. Make sure you pin it to its respective menu, in order to be visible when launching the browser. Keeping it hidden is also a choice, as the new tab function of the browser will be overtaken by the add-on. Click on it to bring up a new tab with maybe a couple of already default sites. Open each free slot to customize them using your preferred sites. Upon linking a page, the title will be suggested automatically, depending on the original title. Leave that as it is or type it a new name, the choice is yours.

The speed dial works as intended. Click on a shortcut to launch a page within the current tab. Use the small combo menu to open a site within a separate tab or an incognito one.

On the flip side, there is an issue with the language display. Windows 11 users might have the extension running in Russian only, without the possibility to change. It would be of utmost help if the base language would be English, then include a language selector for other supported localizations.

Speed Dial is somewhat obsolete given today's browsers, overlooking other issues like the one above. Indeed, each browser incorporated this speed dial function in its own way, resulting in different templates. In case you are a returning user, who prefers Firefox and the big tiles this add-on uses to display web pages, then go ahead and give it another spin.