Operas speed dial for firefox?

It might not be as good as Operas Speed dial, but it's a start! It doesn't function as well and isn't as easy to use - or as cool

but hey, it's a start!

The latest Opera 9.2, brought a new feature called Speed Dial whichis basically a grid of your 9 favourite or more visited sites’thumbnails presented instead of the blank page you get when you add anew tab.
Speed Dial is a Firefox extension developed by Josep del Rio thatbrings the same functionality to Firefox with a couple of new tricksand some handicaps.

In Opera’s Speed Dial you can press Ctrl + 1..9to access a particular web page and you can easily turn it on and offwith a button at the bottom. Also, click on an empty slot and you canadd a site from a list of your most frequently visited sites ormanually enter a web address. Finally, you can reload the thumbnailsmanually or have them reloaded automatically every n minutes or seconds. None of this is available in Speed Dial for Firefox. At least not yet.

Butin exchange, you get two other cool features: a toolbar button whichprovides the fastest access to your speed dial bookmarks and a contextmenu item to assign the current web page to a speed dial slot. You canchoose whether to have this option in the web page or tab context menu,or to show the speed dial thumbnails in new tabs, windows both or noneof them, which makes it much more versatile.
Additional options include setting the thumbnail size and you with ahack you can change the number of thumbnails as well. Ffor example, toget only six thumbnails, add this code to userContent.css:

Code:

#speeddialGrid row:last-child { display: none !important; }

Get it at Mozila Add-ons. Note that it is still in the sandbox, Mozilla Addons’ review area, so you will need to logon to get access.
To contact the developer and report bugs you can join the ongoing discussion at mozillaZine Forums.
Personally I'll stick with Opera but I will use this in firefox when I use it as my backup browser

Very cool! Thanks for the link!

I wonder if Firefox will have a feature like this built in since both Opera and IE have similar built in features.