Reviews for Group Speed Dial
Group Speed Dial by Juraj Mäsiar
Review by Firefox user 13587393
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 13587393, 6 years agoQuite nice add-on as replacement for "Speed Dial by Josep del Rio".
Looks promising but far from being perfect.
Pros:
+ Possibility of importing existing "Speed Dials" (but thumbnails itself are not imported!)
+ Mouse wheel support to scroll through existing groups
+ Dials can link to groups
Cons/Bugs/Missing:
- "No title on dials" does not work with transparent PNG images.
- Thumbs cannot defined to be exactly square format (e.g. 200 x 200), they become something like 200 x 194 instead (when set to 1:1). So I have to resize/crop all my created thumbnail images to that dimension otherwise they look ugly when they contain a background colour other than white (I am using the colour scheme "white"), even parts of the title may be visible on the edges. BTW: Most dial thumbnails online available are square.
- Thumbs for dials that link to a group are permanently changed. I have created custom thumb images for my groups, e.g. "Music". When ever I change (edit/add/delete) a dial within this group "Music", GSD ignores my custom thumb and generates a new one instead. So I have to tell GSD again and again, that it should use "my" Music-thumb – until my next change in that group ... :( Annoying!
- I am missing to set margins for each group dial page. The dials are filled (sized) completely from top of the page to the bottom, which looks horrible (imo) and makes the pages overloaded and more difficult to read (heavy eye movement).
- Empty options "Visual" and "Settings" (pages include only "Coming soon"). Maybe I am too strict here, but this may be acceptable in an early alpha/beta but does not belong to a release version!
- Copying a dial does not work. Although I press the "Ctrl" while dragging a dial to another group and the symbol "+" is shown at the mouse cursor, the dial will be moved (instead of being copied).
But overall not bad albeit of some criticism.
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Looks promising but far from being perfect.
Pros:
+ Possibility of importing existing "Speed Dials" (but thumbnails itself are not imported!)
+ Mouse wheel support to scroll through existing groups
+ Dials can link to groups
Cons/Bugs/Missing:
- "No title on dials" does not work with transparent PNG images.
- Thumbs cannot defined to be exactly square format (e.g. 200 x 200), they become something like 200 x 194 instead (when set to 1:1). So I have to resize/crop all my created thumbnail images to that dimension otherwise they look ugly when they contain a background colour other than white (I am using the colour scheme "white"), even parts of the title may be visible on the edges. BTW: Most dial thumbnails online available are square.
- Thumbs for dials that link to a group are permanently changed. I have created custom thumb images for my groups, e.g. "Music". When ever I change (edit/add/delete) a dial within this group "Music", GSD ignores my custom thumb and generates a new one instead. So I have to tell GSD again and again, that it should use "my" Music-thumb – until my next change in that group ... :( Annoying!
- I am missing to set margins for each group dial page. The dials are filled (sized) completely from top of the page to the bottom, which looks horrible (imo) and makes the pages overloaded and more difficult to read (heavy eye movement).
- Empty options "Visual" and "Settings" (pages include only "Coming soon"). Maybe I am too strict here, but this may be acceptable in an early alpha/beta but does not belong to a release version!
- Copying a dial does not work. Although I press the "Ctrl" while dragging a dial to another group and the symbol "+" is shown at the mouse cursor, the dial will be moved (instead of being copied).
But overall not bad albeit of some criticism.
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1,264 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18436511, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mikwei, 9 days agoNever an issue, works on all browsers and OS's, sync sometimes slow, but a cloud access as well so you don't need to sync everywhere. Support has been great, and really it never fails. Some offer some better widget add-on but find this functions better/faster and very customizable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vlad, 22 days agoThank you for the quick correction of the bug, a wonderful application that works again like a clock, I change the rating perfectly.
Developer response
posted 21 days agoHello,
I'm sorry for the complications.
New fixed version has just been approved!
More info:
https://github.com/fastaddons/GroupSpeedDial/issues/324
Best Regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15944772, a month agoCrashes Firefox every night. I love this add on and have been using it for years, but finally isolated the persistent crashes to this specific add-on. I will have to disable it and look for an alternative. Would be five stars if it was stable.
Developer response
posted a month agoHello,
Could you write me email (admin@fastaddons.com) with more details please? I would live to investigate this.
For example, is your PC running all night? And do you have "Auto-reload" enabled in some of your dials? There have been cases when auto-reload would fail if monitor disconnects itself when monitor goes to sleep but PC is still running.
But in any case, addons should not be possible to crash the browser, so sounds interesting.
Please let me know.
Best Regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 1 out of 5by illgiveyoufish, a month agoIn the nonpro version you can't resize the size of the dials. Which makes it useless for me.
Developer response
posted a month agoHello,
Right click group name or open main menu and select "Edit group".
There you can change dimensions / layout.
The PRO feature for dial resize applies only to single dial. It should be less confusing in the upcoming release :)
Best Regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12792632, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12587012, a month agoJust installed update firefox, now i lost a lot of tabs. Where does group speed dials keeps the old config (there has to be a "old firefox config"). Big mess solution.
Developer response
posted a month agoHello,
This article should help with the dials recovery:
https://github.com/fastaddons/GroupSpeedDial/wiki/Recovery-of-your-dials,-how-are-dials-stored-and-how-to-make-a-backup
Best Regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 2 months ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Veresk, 2 months agoПриложение не работает помле установки. Не понятно почему нужны часы конфигурированич для функционирования.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHello,
Is there some error message?
Unless you are using some very old Firefox, everything should work.
Maybe this article will help:
https://github.com/fastaddons/GroupSpeedDial/wiki/Fixing-broken-dials-page
Best Regards,
Juraj Mäsiar - Rated 5 out of 5by kuturkutur, 3 months ago
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