How to setup a Speed Dial Homepage on Safari and Firefox

It is now possible to have nine of your most-used sites as a homepage in Safari, quickly accessible by pressing numbers 1 to 9, just like the Opera browser. Unfortunately, unlike Opera, Safari Dial is an online app.

The sites are presented with screenshots of the pages. No registration is necessary, and your unique homepage can be accessed from multiple computers. This online app also works fine on Firefox (and probably other browsers), and makes a good alternative to Firefox's Speed Dial extension.

Another option for FireFox is to use Fast Dial.

Happy browsing!

Google's new web browser not compatible with Apple OS X or Linux

Google has announced a new web browser called Chrome to compete with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. However, the new browser is not going to be available for people running Apple's OS X operating system or Linux.




Does the world really need another web browser? Where is Chrome's advantage?

Google Chrome is said to be redesigned completely from scratch and promises to load pages faster and more securely. It also includes a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, dubbed V8, that is designed to run the next generation of not-yet-invented Web applications.

Chrome is going to be available for downloading Tuesday in more than 100 countries for computers running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system only. Google said it’s still working on versions compatible with Apple Inc.’s Mac computer and the Linux operating system.

Google is touting Chrome as a more sophisticated Web browser better suited for displaying the dynamic and interactive content blossoming on the Web as people migrate from television, radio and newspapers.

Personally, since I'm an Apple user, and since I'm completely dependent on Firefox's plug-in architecture, I'll be passing on Chrome for now. It will be an interesting project to follow however.