Speed Dial

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Από τον/την Χρήστης Firefox eb66a0 στις Απρίλ. 12, 2016 · μόνιμος σύνδεσμος

Every time I contemplated switching to Chrome because of Firefox's performance issues, the lack of an equivalent SpeedDial addon in the Chrome ecosystem always stopped me.

Sure, Chrome has Speed Dial addons, but none of them implement the ctrl+<dial_num> hotkey functionality like this addon does, and I came to rely on it quite heavily. With the ctrl+<dial_num> feature I am able to jump to web sites so fast most people do not even realize that I just opened a new tab and navigated to a new website. It happens so fast that they just assume that the quick screen changes they saw was me navigating to an already open web site in another tab. It is so convenient that rarely do I need to actually type a URL anymore, and I wasn't able to replicate this behavior in Chrome, despite my best efforts. The closest thing I got to was using the Shortkeys extension, which does let you remap ctrl+<num> to websites. But unlike the Firefox SpeedDial hotkeys, the Shortkeys only work on actual websites (not new tabs or settings windows), and only after the current website finishes loading, which is simply not good enough.

So for now it seems like I'm still a Firefox user, and will keep being one as long as the fantastic ctrl+<num> hotkey implementation on this addon continues to be unavailable on other browsers.