Fast Dial

Fast Dial [v4.14.4]

Welcome to the Fast Dial Home Page!

Fast Dial displays a list of thumbnails of your favorite sites in new tabs.

Press Ctrl+T to open Fast Dial page.
Set browser home page to "chrome://fastdial/content/fastdial.html" to have Fast Dial opened on startup.
Add new sites to Fast Dial by right-clicking site page and choosing "Add to Fast Dial" from the context menu.
Assign a logo to any site on Advanced page in Properties dialog. Get more logos at userlogos.org site.
Use drag-n-drop to change thumbnail position. Ctrl+drag to move thumbnail into a folder.
Scroll Fast Dial page by mouse wheel or PgUp/PgDown keys if there're more bookmarks that fit on the page.
Enable thumbnail preview in thumbnail Properties dialog. Then left-click and hold on a thumbnail to see the preview.
Themes. Use predefined ones, get more at userlogos.org or create your own.
Set any bookmark folder to be Fast Dial home.

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Archived - Fast Dial ChangeLog

Fixed: some bookmarks failed to remove
Fixed: search icons were displayed incorrectly
Added: preference "Add to Fast Dial" with values "Home", "Folders" and "None"
Added: "New Folder" button into folder selection dialog
Added: display search suggestions for search textboxes. (Note, search suggestions can be turned on/off in Firefox search preferences.)
Added: Export/Import of bookmarks.
Changed: screenshot (generated when exporting theme or bookmarks) size is set to 1024x768.
Added: translations to Polish (teo), Portuguese (Brazil) (humbertosartini), Portuguese (Portugal) (ricardosimoes). If you like to help translating, please welcome to http://beta.babelzilla.org/projects/p/fastdial/

Fixed unsaved session problem. (Thanks to Onemen from Tab Mix Plus.)
Fixed incompatibility with Firefox 48 nightly.
Removed popup buttons from thumbnails. Instead, use right-click and choose from the popup menu.
Removed folders submenu from "Add to Fast Dial" context menu item. Instead, folder selection window (resizable) is shown.
Folders are opened in the current tab not regarding "Open in" preference.
Removed support of Firefox versions below 11.

Temporary fix: Modified fastdial.js to set "view_source.tab" to false. This disables Firefox 42's feature of opening "View Page Source" in a new tab (which is not compatible with Fast Dial v4.12). It will open in a new window instead, like in Firefox 41 and below.

Added: Support for national language URLs.
Added: Enabled refresh controls for folders in Properties dialog.
Fixed: Bug in queuing when refreshing multiple thumbnails simultaneously.

Fixed: Some conflicts with Tab Mix Plus. TMP should work correctly with Fast Dial now.
Fixed: Focus address bar function

Fixed: Backgrounds would not load with () in file names
Fixed: Various other small bugs
Fixed: Removed usage of "browser.newtab.url" as it conflicted with "about:newtab"
Fixed: Fast Dial wouldn't load in last tab because of the above change
Fixed: Incompatibility with Tab Mix Plus
Fixed: Incompatibility with Old Default Image Style addon (Logos wouldn't load with the addon enabled)
Added: Ability to cycle through multiple backgrounds. On page open, one background is chosen randomly.
Added: Favicons are back with Mozilla's new asynchronous api
Added: centered backgrounds are stretched to the size of the browser window.
Added: vertical centering of dials.
Added: Move to different folder option in thumbnail/dial context menu.
Added: German translation (Thanks to Siggi0904).
Added: Ukrainian translation (Thanks to dbv92)
Added: French translation (Thanks to Romaric)
Removed: support for Firefox versions less than 4.0

Fixed: Upon initial install, Firefox had to be restarted two times.
Fixed: multiple search boxes should be working now.
Fixed: additional themes were not available upon install. Switching between themes didn't work.
Fixed: Unable to change background image on themes already having an image.
Fixed: it's now possible to drag-drop thumbnails between pages (scroll mouse wheel while dragging)
Fixed: When removing a folder, cached images of child thumbnails were not deleted.
Fixed: preview was displayed semi-transparent
Fixed: cached preview images were not deleted when deleting a thumbnail
Fixed: clicking OK on an empty folder properties dialog box resulted in "nbsp" named folder

Added: a link to get themes from UserLogos.org added into preferences.
Added: When "Show Fast Dial in new tabs" is unchecked, opening new tab shows "about:newtab" url instead of "about:blank".
Added: when creating a folder, Logo property is assigned a folder image by default
Added: Setting in preferences dialog: Fast Dial home folder selection button. Now users can select any bookmarks folder and load it into the Fast Dial homepage. This setting takes the place of the removed Fast dial context menu from bookmarks.

Removed: Fast Dial context menu from Firefox bookmarks.
Removed: fr-FR locale, because it's incomplete.

Version created by telega

Removed favicon support in order to make Fast Dial work with Firefox 21 and future versions, as the favicon service had been changed. (Bug 834457) With help from Telega.

Fixed help button located in preferences dialog. Changed it to link to help section on Userlogos.

Fixed cell hover buttons (refresh, properties, remove) not displaying properly in Firefox 17 (Thanks Dzirt)

Fixed dragging&dropping cells when scrolling in Fast Dial page.
Bug found and fix made by Playermet. Thank you:)

Fix for change in Firefox 13's code relating to live bookmarks

Fixed regression from Version 4.2. Users can now successfully use the option in Preferences again to open Fast Dial in a new Tab or not.

correction for small small error in cell sizing. May improve logo display in some cases. (courtesy of telega)
added full compatibility with the Firefox 13-14 new tab page change. (with advice from telega)
Note: -Fast Dial replaces the new tab page-

Added visibility of userlogos site to properties dialog

Edited wording of properties dialog for more clarity

*This version is essentially the same as version 3.6.
Updated install.rdf for compatibility with latest nightly versions of Firefox.

Removed code that was incompatible with Firefox 7 and future versions.
Tested compatible on Firefox versions 7-10*. (Including latest nightly build as of 12/21/11)
*Special thanks goes to Rneo and ferenc of the userlogos forum for alerting me (Efreak1) of the changes in compatible code for Firefox 7.*

Fix major incompatibilities with 5.0-6.0
Fix for transparent logo

Themes are sorted alphabetically.
Drag-n-drop works faster.
Added option to hide Back links into Preferences > General.
Removed search plugin completely.

Added Preview feature (was called Zoom in older versions). Check Preview checkbox in thumbnail Properties dialog, then left-click and hold on a thumbnail to see preview.
General preferences combined into a single page.
Left clicking on an empty box opens Properties dialog instead of a context menu.
Technical: removed usage of eval() function.
Clock image changed back to animated throbber image.

Removed spam links.
Search engine is not changed.
Added help page (by mafi0z).
Fixed bug with FD page not appearing in new tabs with TMP installed.
Fixed bug with hight processor usage on startup, which might have caused browser to hang.
Fixed bug with grayed OK button in Properties dialog on MacOS systems.
Sorry for all the damage previous updates made to your system.

Fixed address bar conflict with IE Tab addon.
Removed tab bar button.
Removed Toolbars tab in Preferences.
Middle-click on toolbar button opens FD in new tab.

Themes. Use one of the predefined themes, get more from userlogos.org, or create your own.
Search bar (can be turned off in Preferences).
Fast Dial page can be scrolled by mouse wheel or PgUp/PgDown keys if there're more bookmarks that fit on the page.
Possibility to auto-hide toolbars.
Set any bookmark folder to be Fast Dial home.
Export/import any bookmark folder.
UserLogos search plugin.

Browser Navigation bar is hidden by default and shown on mouseover.
Added "Add" context menu.
Added "Search" input box on top of FD page.
Fixed error when thumbnail images were not migrated from 2.11.
"Back" cell is no more displayed on FD home page.
Added Import/Export context menu item - rightclick on any bookmark folder (in bookmarks menu, sidebar or bookmark manager) and export/import it.

Fixed: Drag-n-drop was working incorreclty when "Fixed" thumbnail size is specified in Preferences and FD page has a scrollbar.

Yahoo Mail issue is fixed
Back button is created in the first cell of a newly created folder
Options button in Addons window opens Preferences for the main Fast Dial folder.
FD toolbar button is automatically added to toolbar upon installation (only once).
Also the button has a drop-down menu with a list of folders for quick access to them.
Context menu is reorganized:
-- "Preferences" menu item is shown only when clicking on a free space
-- "Add" menu item is shown when right-clicking on an empty cell
-- "Back" menu item is removed
Properties dialog changes:
-- Added "Slow site" checkbox - lets more time for site loading
-- Added "Refresh All" checkbox - checked by default. Allows to exclude sites from "Refresh All" command.
-- Added "current tab" option for "Open In" option.

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