Reviews for Group Speed Dial
Group Speed Dial by Juraj Mäsiar
1,319 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13067791, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12263794, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13597769, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13595902, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alexey, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13592267, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13587393, 7 years agoQuite nice add-on as replacement for "Speed Dial by Josep del Rio".
Looks promising but far from being perfect.
Pros:
+ Possibility of importing existing "Speed Dials" (but thumbnails itself are not imported!)
+ Mouse wheel support to scroll through existing groups
+ Dials can link to groups
Cons/Bugs/Missing:
- "No title on dials" does not work with transparent PNG images.
- Thumbs cannot defined to be exactly square format (e.g. 200 x 200), they become something like 200 x 194 instead (when set to 1:1). So I have to resize/crop all my created thumbnail images to that dimension otherwise they look ugly when they contain a background colour other than white (I am using the colour scheme "white"), even parts of the title may be visible on the edges. BTW: Most dial thumbnails online available are square.
- Thumbs for dials that link to a group are permanently changed. I have created custom thumb images for my groups, e.g. "Music". When ever I change (edit/add/delete) a dial within this group "Music", GSD ignores my custom thumb and generates a new one instead. So I have to tell GSD again and again, that it should use "my" Music-thumb – until my next change in that group ... :( Annoying!
- I am missing to set margins for each group dial page. The dials are filled (sized) completely from top of the page to the bottom, which looks horrible (imo) and makes the pages overloaded and more difficult to read (heavy eye movement).
- Empty options "Visual" and "Settings" (pages include only "Coming soon"). Maybe I am too strict here, but this may be acceptable in an early alpha/beta but does not belong to a release version!
- Copying a dial does not work. Although I press the "Ctrl" while dragging a dial to another group and the symbol "+" is shown at the mouse cursor, the dial will be moved (instead of being copied).
But overall not bad albeit of some criticism.
. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13583063, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13407612, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13582341, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13580361, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13540295, 7 years agoThis is not Fast Dial, but Fast Dial is sadly no longer supported. Why not 5 stars? Because it doesn't load on Firefox start, you need to wait about 30 seconds for Group Speed Dial to load, pretty long right? Sometimes dials go missing during normal browsing and you need to wait for them again. Fix this (and don't screw up anything else) and I will rate 5 stars.
Other thing I don't really like is creating new account so you can have your dials synchronized. In Fast Dial they were bookmarks so you only needed Firefox account for this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13514556, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13576973, 7 years agoMarginal functionality...uninstalled.
Refresh dials does not work, they refresh only when you are on the dial page, close that page and the thumbnails are gone.
I have to click multiple times on the dials to get them to open the web page.
If you have more categories than fit across the top tabs, there is no way so access the additional tabs unless you go to the drop down menu. What is the point of tabs if you cannot access them.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
Regarding your issues:
1) refresh in background is not really possible right now, but once the dials are loaded they will stay there. If you have issues with that, feel free to contact me to my support e-mail. There are some known compatibility issues with Firefox and some cleaning and antivirus software.
2) click multiple times to open the dials page - this is the first time I hear this :) There is a good chance your Firefox needs reset:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
3) you can increase Group list height in Options page to see all your tabs. You can also use "group-dials" to access your dials in the same way like files in folders - see my introduction video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvT4w-R8hJU
I hope this helps :)
Have a nice day :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13535436, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Redd Hott, 7 years agoAfter working out what does what, I'm quite happy with this, although I miss the old Speeddial. However, I hope that, in time, this will be as good as the Legacy Speeddial, and it seems from the other comments and responses here that the developer is working at speed to introduce some new "bells and whistles". The background refresh would be good, but appears to be impossible in the new FF architecture.
My main wish at the moment is to be able to resize thumbnails across the Dial Groups, and to make them smaller, which I would find easier to work with. - Rated 1 out of 5by ucubit, 7 years agoUseless app.dials do not refresh,no drag and drop function, original Speed dial was 1000 times better. I tried to use it but is NOT GOOD .
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
Regarding drag and drop - you probably activated the "Super-speed" feature (in upper right menu). When this feature is enabled, you can drag and drop only when holding Ctrl or Shift keys. You can also disable Super-speed.
I'm adding new features almost every day now.
Also make sure to watch my introduction video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvT4w-R8hJU
I hope this helps :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13572068, 7 years agoLoved the normal speeddial addon. Was just great. Please make a grey theme so to get a bit closer at least visualy. Also the thext in the dials on the top are way to big, how can that be changed?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
I will be adding much more visual options in upcoming weeks. Please be patient :)
Have a nice day :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by isam alkhatib, 7 years ago