That makes sense, because you want to bookmark pages you visit regularly, but not every day. And of course you bookmark pages you think you might come back to later, but never do.
The latest version of the Opera web browser has a nifty new feature that makes it easy to jump to your favorite pages. Every time you open a new tab, you're presented with 9 boxes with thumbnails of your favorite sites. You can either select sites yourself, or choose your most visited sites based on your browser history.
Each site is assigned a number, and you can automatically load each page by pressing Crtl+1, Crtl+2, etc. When you're on a blank tab, looking at the thumbnails, you can click Crtl+R to reload the images to see if anything changed while you were trying to decide which page to read first. This also handy because the thumbnails are not supposed to reload every time you start the browser (although in this initial release, they do).
[Thanks Jordan!]
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3-12-2007 @ 7:39PM
Chris Moroz said...
Wow, they went Wii style with that. It's interesting (though not surprising) to see them take ideas from the Wii browser and put it into their flagship product.
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3-13-2007 @ 7:15AM
Dave Chartier said...
FWIW - Safari has done the cmd-1, cmd-2 thing for a few years now. It's really handy if you organize your bookmarks right and get into the habit.
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3-13-2007 @ 7:17AM
Dean said...
Wat happened to the bar that pops up when u click the address bar?? i use to use that all the time was handy?
:(
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3-13-2007 @ 3:34PM
Kevin said...
Does FireFox have an extension similar to this?
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5-20-2007 @ 10:58AM
Foodie said...
How do you get back to speed-dial when you're a couple pages in, without starting a new tab? I tried to "bookmark" speed dial, or make it a home page so I could click once to get to it, but for now, I'm stuck clicking the back button repeatedly if I just want to get back to speed dial to go to one of my favourite pages. Suggestions?
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