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Auto Dial Puts Frequently Visited Sites in New Tabs
Posted by Adam Pash at 4:00 AM on August 29, 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Auto Dial Firefox extension automatically places shortcuts to your most frequently visited web sites inside all of your new, empty tabs. Mozilla Labs recently suggested that empty tabs could be put to better use by offering no-cost options for the user (i.e., if what you want isn't what's offered, it doesn't hurt anything). Although not as inspired as the undeveloped concept at Mozilla Labs, Auto Dial fits perfectly with this idea. If you want more control over the content built in to new tabs, check out the previously mentioned Speed Dial extension. Auto Dial is free, works wherever Firefox does.
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tiffanyrules
Posted 4:45 AM 29/8/08
Yeah... I was definitely also reminded of 1984 (link to ebooks). I can see this being convenient... but also freeeeaky.
tiffanyrules
fakerjohn
Posted 4:30 AM 29/8/08
Yay, another "GANJA" admin sighting!
fakerjohn
SnickerHaHa
Posted 4:17 AM 29/8/08
For some reason, this reminds me of Orwell's 1984.
SnickerHaHa
Rhayader
Posted 4:57 AM 29/8/08
Haha, what is this "Ganja Statistics" thing? Working at Lifehacker sounds like even more fun than I imagined!
Rhayader
Wayne Elgin
Posted 5:23 AM 29/8/08
One of the Ubiquity developers just put out a quick extension called Ambient News that fill in blank tabs with links to recently-visited site's recent RSS feed stories. Kind of nice to see different things filling your blank tab.
Wayne Elgin
Peter Dahl
Posted 5:39 AM 29/8/08
I'll stick with Speed Dial. My employer will agree that it's a good idea to leave this extension alone.
When I clock in to put in a good morning's work, I do not want to be reminded of the sites I had fun browsing the night before and be tempted to just continue pick up from there. Opening Firefox with Speed Dial to work related pages on the first tab and leisure stuff hidden on the second increases concentration and productivity.
Peter Dahl
joelena
Posted 6:16 AM 29/8/08
I had speed dial installed for awhile, but got rid of it. This seems even less useful to me: if they're already my most-visited sites, I don't need any help getting to them, do I?
joelena
jokermatt999
Posted 7:47 AM 29/8/08
@tiffanyrules: ...How is this anymore 1984 than the awesome bar or most visited bookmarks?
jokermatt999
ejoy
Posted 8:06 AM 29/8/08
@tiffanyrules:
I don't understand how this is freaky.
It looks to me like the page is locally stored (address is from chrome, for one thing) and the links are just populated from the MostVisited bookmarks folder (which is auto-populated in the bookmarks toolbar, anyways).
ejoy
mrbenn
Posted 8:50 AM 29/8/08
will stick with Speed Dial, have it set to homepage, very nice extension
mrbenn
mballai
Posted 2:26 PM 29/8/08
Kinda like throwing spaghetti on the wall; didn't seem to guess well for me. Needs some smarter logic (aka Launchy) to better filter for useful choices. I'll stay with Speed Dial.
mballai
laurion
Posted 9:42 PM 29/8/08
I like the look and feel of Fast Dial (another extension) better.
laurion
JaYp146
Posted 1:58 AM 30/8/08
Hasn't Opera had this as one of its basic features for a few years now?
JaYp146
friendinme
Posted 3:53 AM 30/8/08
I use an extension called "New Tab URL" and set it to access my Aboogy (www.aboogy.com) page. This makes a new tab very useful (and customizable).
(This is fast, but if you want to make it lightning fast, turn off the icons at the top of the Aboogy page... or make it a local page)
friendinme