Desktop lets you treat Firefox bookmarks like desktop icons
But what makes Desktop different is that you can change the look and feel of the new tab page by dragging, dropping, and resizing thumbnails. In fact, it makes blank Firefox tabs feel a lot like the Windows desktop, which is probably why it's called Desktop.
You can also add search widgets, and folders to your blank tab layout.
The plugin is listed as an experimental Firefox add-on, which means it hasn't been tested extensively. But it seemed fairly stable with Firefox 3.0.10. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 yet.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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whookid said 6:31PM on 5-04-2009
If you want a speed dial like add-on, couldn't you just use the add-on crazily named... Speed Dial. Does the same thing and has been around for ages.
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Saint Seminole said 8:21PM on 5-04-2009
Certainly sounds like the extension Speed Dial (whookid mentioned it above), which I've been using happily for some months now. Resizable icons, draggable, even multiple tabs of icons are available for Speed Dial.
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daniel said 7:56AM on 5-05-2009
Hi,
Is there literally a way to make them look like desktop Icons, like have the favicon instead of whatthe page looks like? and is there something like this that instead of a extension, is a home page type thing?
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nathan said 7:56AM on 5-05-2009
Isn't speed dial dead after new tab king showed up?
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