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I thought the new location bar stuff was my favorite new Firefox 3 feature. While still a contender, it turns out I have a new fave — the “Most Visited” toolbar menu.

You can see it quietly lurking at the left side of the bookmarks toolbar:

I think it was there when I was trying the betas, but I don’t recall ever actually using it. Now, after just 24 hours of using Release Candidate 1, I’m already in love with it. It’s dynamic. It changes over time. It’s just that swell.

Here’s what mine currently looks like:

What makes this neat? Well, most of those links come from various start pages (like Netvibes and iGoogle). To visit them, I tab back to the start page — or re-open it — for the URL as I sure don’t bother trying to memorize URLs anymore! With this Most Visited feature, I can get to those oft visited sites quicker and with fewer clicks.

I guess it could be (kind of) compared to Opera’s Speed Dial (my last mention of that) with a twist. While Speed Dial shows thumbnails of the pages, it’s not dynamic or adaptive. However, with Opera 9.50, it can be synced across multiple machines running Opera. Most Visited cannot.

My thoughts on browsers seem to get disrupted every few months…

What are some other great features in Firefox 3 that have been noticed? I hate to miss out on anything.

One Response to “Firefox 3: Most Visited”

1. dummy on May 23rd, 2008 6:29 pm
   

   I deleted it without thinking about it. Now I want it back but I’m not sure if I can do so. Any ideas?

   Edit: I found the answer:
   http://lifehacker.com/387944/how-to-make-your-own-smart-bookmarks-in-firefox-3

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