Reviews for Group Speed Dial
Group Speed Dial by Juraj Mäsiar
1,319 reviews
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
There is no old version :), the add-on you used to use was made by different author and using different technologies and with much more time :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar- Rated 4 out of 5by mdv921, 7 years agoExcellent program. The thumbnail creation works much better than any other speed dial program I've used. Never fails to capture the full image from the website. The only criticism I have is that you can not set dials to reload automatically dial by dial. It's either all or none. A few of the websites I have dials for don't produce thumbnails that are pleasing to the eye so I have thumbnails I make myself for those and I don't want those dials to ever change. So I have to manually reload each dial I do want to reload and that does take time.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13568799, 7 years agoMain issues I have with this add on are: Refresh all dials and refresh dial in general. Unlike the former Speedail, GSP fail to refresh dials correctly. Refreshing as group or all dials results in partially refreshed dials or a dial with data (images and text) that belongs to a different dial. The other issue I ran into is when opening a new tab. GSP causes two dials to open at the same time in the address bar (one showing GSP extension link in address bar and one blank) and after a delay it closes. So you have to wait until it closes before entering any info; like when doing a google search for instance. SpeeDial had another nice feature that allowed the user to set auto refresh dials (every 10 min, an hour etc), that I would love to see here. Thanks!
Update: Removed on 07/12 due to too many issues. Tip: remnants of removed add ons stay for ever unless you manually remove them. Log into about: config, type extensions, reset every add on you had removed for good and restart your browser.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
The issues with double-tabs being opened seems more like a Firefox issue, so far nobody reported such issue (and I get a lot of e-mails :)).
You may want to use Firefox Reset feature to fix such issues:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
Regarding reloading thumbnails - this is a tricky thing to do now since creating thumbnails in background is no longer possible in new Web-extension API. So reloading thumbnails gets interrupted if you close or switch tab. Auto-reload with "almost background reload" is coming in upcoming weeks.
If you experience more issues, please report them to my support e-mail. I'm fixing bugs sometimes within 24 hours.
I'm sorry for the inconveniences.
Have a nice day :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by Tiger13, 7 years agoНа разных компах ведет себя немного по разному, такое ошущение что оч много зависит от скорости интернета и мощности пк (достаточно медленно происходит первый запуск, потом все хорошо). Первая пустая вкладка не загружается (впрочем fastdial тоже этим грешил и это вопрос скорее к разработчикам firefox). Очень хотелось бы видеть возможность подхватить автоматически настройки-закладки fastdial, так как вручную все настраивать тот еще кошмар и было бы супер чтоб новая вкладка открывалась так же быстро. Еще есть маленькая проблема с сайтами которые отображаются в закладках, они либо обрезаются, либо смещены в сторону, а хотелось бы чтоб были целиком! Само приложение достаточно гибкое и мне понравилось! Спасибо!
- Rated 5 out of 5by NeoOne, 7 years agoIn conjunction with the Ctrl-Number Add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ctrl_groupspeeddial/), this Extension has provided my most-used "Speed Dial" functions. Thanks to the developer for creating and supporting this Extension! [Donation Sent]
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13561222, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Masson, 7 years agoExcellent addition, makes it easier to work on the Internet. The developer quickly fixes bugs. Good job. I recommend.
- Rated 4 out of 5by -21grams, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13547792, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13545653, 7 years agoAfter some testing in Firefox 57 I now prefer GroupSpeedDial; most of the functionality I need is there, except:
- access to local files (file:///data/xxx/index.html)
- group-specific background color
Great Add-on - Thanks
Wolfgang.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
Sadly access to local .html files is now completely blocked by Firefox internal security for all add-ons. You can create such links in my speed dial, but Firefox won't allow you to click on them.
More boring info here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Filesystem
Situation in Chrome browser is very similar but Chrome added option (checkbox) to enable access to local files for specific add-on on their add-on page.
I hope something similar will come to Firefox one day, but until then, there is nothing I can do about it.
Regarding group-specific colors -this is being developed as we speak :), so it should be ready in several days.
Have a nice day :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13539752, 7 years agoclearly still a bit early in development but works very well. waiting patiently for visual customization (mainly to remove the glow/gradient around groups/bookmarks
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13537862, 7 years agoGood Job ... best SpeedDial ever.
- Very fast, saving CPU power, all other SpeedDails are resource hungry and slow, easy to use, nice sync-function.
- Nice import functions for:
* SpeedDial-AddOn exports (from Josep del Rio)
* SpeeDial [FVD] exports (resource hungry and slow)
* FireFox bookmarks (.json)
* and so on ... - Rated 4 out of 5by dlvelazquez, 7 years agoIt's a good extension. Only the synchronization doesn't work.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
Synchronization should work without any issues.
Please write me more info to my support e-mail, I'm sure we can find a solution.
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13535833, 7 years agoHi, sorry about the one-star. You have obviously put a lot of work into this but it doesn't do what I used speed-dial for. ie short-cuts.
I used Speed-Dial as a speedy way of getting to my favourite sites. control-1 was google, control-2 was wikipedia, etc, but I can't find a similar feature in group-speed-dial.
I'm using Linux Mate on a laptop and I have bad wrists so mouse-based solutions are bad for me, I want keyboard tools.
Addendum
Aha! I discovered quite by accident that there is another add-on "Ctrl + Number for Group Speed Dial" by the same author that adds this so I've upped to 4 stars. Here are 3 wibnis/quibbles (Wouldn't It Be Nice If)
1) I didn't find it because it was off the bottom of the page on the "General" tab in the options
2) When I found the text, it kept on saying "you need this extra addon" even though I had already added it. This was slightly confusing
3) Can we have Shift+Control+Number to open in a new tab please? Equivalent to Control-T followed by Control-NDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoHello,
As you can see, the add-on is in active development and new features are added almost every day now :)
The option for "Shift+Control+Number" has been added recently as well.
If you have more ideas or find a bug, please let me know to my support e-mail.
Have a nice day :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13346511, 7 years agoI want to like this Addon but New Tab Override does not work. Tried on two computers with same results. Override "New tab" page with URL:www.google.com.
But the address bar has this when I select new tab: moz-extension://db0e5e33-ed74-4bf2-afa6-50a143e5be6a/www.google.com.
Firefox 57 (64).Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello,
This issue should be fixed now in current version.
If you find more bugs, please let me know to my support e-mail. Usually I'm able to fix them within 24 hours :)
Have a nice day :)
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 4 out of 5by LampNetworks, 7 years agoOnly a blank page loads when using "Export settings and dials" - How to backup locally?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13472173, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by StasR, 7 years agoI do not need a background image, I do not need a background gradient. But I want to be able to set different background colors for different groups.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13530337, 7 years agoDeveloper is receptive to suggestions, and this add on does exactly what I need it to do. 5/5
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12613119, 7 years ago