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Speed Dial for Firefox: Rebuilding a Classic Browser Feature

Opera had speed dial in 2007. Chrome dropped it. Firefox never added it. After years without a good speed dial, I built one.

What Speed Dial Hub does

Replaces your Firefox new tab with a visual grid of shortcuts you define. Each tile has a custom icon, label, and URL. Tiles are grouped and drag-and-drop reorganizable.

Why thumbnail-based speed dials fail

Auto-generated thumbnails are based on what you visited recently — which is the wrong signal. You need permanent access to your tools, not rotation based on last week's browsing.

Manually defined tiles solve this. The grid stays stable.

Install it

Speed Dial Hub — Firefox Add-ons

Free. No account. Works in Firefox.


One of 11 Firefox extensions I built — all free, no-account. See the full series.

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