Safari has Speed Dial too

by David Chartier (RSS feed) May 9th 2007 at 10:30AM

Opera's new Speed Dial feature seems to be all the rage lately, and now even Firefox can do it. Since we're all having fun with this new way to utilize our bookmark bars, we thought it was only fair to point out for the alternative users in the crowd that Apple's Safari browser has done Speed Dial for a few years now, possibly since its release in 2003. Using the Command key plus a number should give you the same behavior as these other two browsers, allowing the nearly-5% of the rest of us to (kinda) play right along.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

wiley murray said 2:02PM on 5-09-2007

Is opera better than safari?

Jordan Running said 12:00PM on 5-09-2007

Not quite the same, though, is it? The Opera feature and Firefox add-on both show a live preview of each speed dial page, which I think is more valuable than a simple keyboard shortcut.

Eleventeen said 1:26PM on 5-09-2007

Yeah I accidentally ran across this the other day when using Safari for something and meaning to Command-2 to the second tab (a la Firefox behavior for tab navigation.) Now, almost makes me wish that Firefox acted like this instead.

Dpmorri said 5:39PM on 5-09-2007

this is the primary feature for why I use Safari

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