In the latest weekly the Opera team has introduced a new feature called Speed Dial.
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Why Speed Dial?
Bookmarks often fall into two categories:
A bunch of sites you bookmark because you may want to visit them again someday
5 or 6 sites you visit very often
Speed Dial is an elegant way to address the second category. When you open a new tab, it will often be to go to one of your favorite sites, so why not just show them there instead of an entirely blank page? Adding your favorites to Speed Dial is also very, very simple: Just click the button and choose a site from your Top 10 history or from the currently open tabs. Deleting them is just as simple, with the X in the upper right corner.
Cool stuff:
You can reload all thumbnails by pressing Ctrl+R, giving you a quick overview of whether your favorite pages have changed, or just reload one of them from the right-click menu (nice for Web mail!).
We're partnering with Yahoo! on both Mobile and Desktop, which explains the new search field. You can of course configure it from search preferences.
You can drag links to thumbnails and even rearrange thumbnails by dragging them on top of each other.
You can hide the entire thing with the "Hide Speed Dial" button in the lower right corner if you don't like it.
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Anyhow, you can get the latest weekly and read about the Speed Dial here:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
So basically before, when you pressed a New Tab button, you got a BLANK white page, but now, you ll get a speed dial page, for quick access to 9 of your favourite pages.
But keep in mind, sinec this is only a weekly build, nobody promises you stability. But I've personally been using betas for ages and never had any problems. I've attached a screenshot, for those interested.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6825/untitledqx5.jpg
For those who use Opera; New Speed Dial feature
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