Cool Tool: Thumbnail Bookmarks on Firefox Blank Tabs September 30, 2008
Posted by AlisterComputeron in Cool Tools, Firefox, Internet, Reviews, Technology.Tags: Technology, Firefox, Internet, Fast Dial, Add-ons
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I discovered this little gem of a Firefox add-on last week and have found it quite useful. It’s an add-on called, Fast Dial, and it adds thumbnails of your bookmarked pages to the blank tab in Firefox. You select which bookmarks you want on the blank tab.
One of the features I like best about the add-on is that you can add a new thumbnail by right clicking a page and selecting Add to Fast Dial. The add-on lets you customize the layout of the blank tab. The default layout is a 3×3 configuration.
When you add a bookmark to the tab, the thumbnail is a snapshot of the web page you are bookmarking. So the thumbnail might not look that great. The Fast Dial website has logos of various websites that you can use for the thumbnail. For example, there are thumbnails for all of the Google apps. You can also use your own pics.
One word of caution: A few users have commented that the latest version of Fast Dial has scrambled their bookmarks. I haven’t seen that, myself, but thought I’d pass it on any way.
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