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4 "SpeedDial" Options for Firefox

Opera's speed dial might be a cool feature, but there's no way it's going to make me stop using Firefox. It did, however, prompt me to take a look at the addons site to see what options the Firefox developer community had come up with.

For thumbnailed pages, SpeedDial and FastDial (pictured) are both nice options. They don't build your pages automatically, but they're both highly customizable. Right click a tab, send it to your dial page. Easy.

I prefer SpeedDial for its support of hotkeys: ctrl+# opens the page in SpeedDial tab, ctrl+shift+# opens it in a new one. FastDial does allow more thumbnails on the page, and it also lets you drag your pages to reorder them, which is handy.

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Filed under: Utilities, Mozilla, Browser Tips

What are your favorite Firefox add-ons?

Firefox Add-onsWhat is your favorite, most cherished Firefox add-on? Some of mine are Gmail Manager, Colorzilla, IEtab, Download StatusBar, Viamatic Foxpose, Performancing, Tab Mix Plus, GooglePreview, Googlepedia, AdBlock, FlashBlock, Gmail Skins, and DownThemAll. What makes the best mix of Firefox add-ons is never the same for anyone. Everyone has different preferences and tastes obviously. This is why Firefox has advantages over IE, since IE is not customizable by any means. Your personal style can be adapted to Firefox, not IE particularly. I understand the need for security and privacy online, which is Microsoft's reason for locking down the UI so much, but can't we have security without losing that precious functionality we all crave so much? So, security issues aside, if you were stranded on a dessert island with nothing but Firefox, and only 5 add-ons, what would they be? What are your personal top five that take all the other extensions milk money? Which five reign supreme? You decide.

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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