The latest Opera 9.2, brought a new feature called Speed Dial which is basically a grid of your 9 favorite or more visited sites’ thumbnails presented instead of the blank page you get when you add a new tab.
Speed Dial is a Firefox extension developed by Josep del Rio that brings the same functionality to Firefox with a couple of new tricks and some handicaps.
In Opera’s Speed Dial you can click on an empty slot and you can add a site from a list of your most frequently visited sites or manually enter a web address. Finally, you can reload the thumbnails manually or have them reloaded automatically every n minutes or seconds. None of this is available in Speed Dial for Firefox. At least not yet.
But in exchange, you get two other cool features: a toolbar button which provides the fastest access to your speed dial bookmarks and a context menu item to assign the current web page to a speed dial slot. You can choose whether to have this option in the web page or tab context menu, or to show the speed dial thumbnails in new tabs, windows both or none of them, which makes it much more versatile.
Additional options include setting the thumbnail size and with a hack you can change the number of thumbnails as well. For example, to get only six thumbnails, add this code to userContent.css:
Code:
#speeddialGrid row:last-child { display: none !important; }
