Fav4: meet your new favorite start page
By default, you get Facebook, Flickr, Gmail, and Twitter as your Fav4, but you can customize your experience by choosing your four from a list of dozens. There's no signup required, no clutter, no weather reports, no email, no Google Alerts ... just a simple, lightweight place to start your browsing in peace. Lifehacker points out that it would be slightly better with keyboard shortcuts - 1, 2, 3 and 4, perhaps? - but I can't think of anything else I'd change about Fav4.
Well, except maybe adding Download Squad to the roster of sites. Our pocket-friendly sibling site, Engadget, is already one of the options.
UPDATE: Fav4 now has keyboard support, and it works the way I described it above. Neat!
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Subscribe to commentstigsfanFeb 14th 2010 2:52PM
Just caught this in a twitter post from the fav4 team:
"Keyboard support is also now live. Hit 1, 2, 3, or 4 on your keyboard to launch a site."
http://twitter.com/fav4dotorg/status/9078709726
Awesome!
DuncanFeb 14th 2010 2:54PM
Isnt this what Opera and Chrome do with speeddial anyway?
Christian VelasquezFeb 14th 2010 2:56PM
It's pretty neat, except for the fact that it does not have all of my favorite sites
On the other hand, @ least I can use it as my home page
It doesn't beat Fast Dial, but I am most dissapointed that I can't Fast Dial as my home/start page
BRB sending feedback to add-on developer
Christian VelasquezFeb 14th 2010 3:04PM
Well, that waste of my own time since I figured it out now D:
DeoWulfFeb 14th 2010 3:54PM
Was about to say; just go to the page and use Tools->Settings to set it as your homepage. Homepages don't have to be websites, they can be local.
Muffin_manFeb 14th 2010 3:07PM
Speed dial for firefox is better :/
riotajFeb 14th 2010 4:21PM
Agreed. Not as aesthetically pleasing (ahem!); however, more functional. My favorite FF add on.
Hany HannaFeb 14th 2010 6:32PM
Sorry, Fav4 can't hold a candle to homepagestartup
http://www.homepagestartup.com/
ElevatorHappyFunFeb 14th 2010 7:45PM
Hanna, while your site has more options, it doesn't have that that "mac/apple" style that fav4 has.
phezFeb 14th 2010 10:17PM
Oh yea? Well, Chrome has 8 of my most visited pages!
stambaFeb 14th 2010 11:02PM
Opera's Speed Dial is better, by far. You can setup up to 25 sites instead of just 4 like here, and plus you can setup any website instead of those preset by the devs... Not impressed. Not even close!
cuz84dFeb 15th 2010 12:34AM
or you can just add this to Firefox's homepage enter a website with a pipe in between. It will open each site as a new tab everytime you start clean: I already have these 4.
http://www.twitter.com | http://www.engadget.com | http://www.facebook.com
joe.jhsonFeb 15th 2010 6:56AM
Wonderful now our one click send us our favorute site.but is it work on Firefox and Chrome browser becasue i mostly use these browser.
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/advanced-cleanse-review-does-it-work-1699553.html
gsarigFeb 15th 2010 3:55PM
This seems pointless. I mean, on Firefox (probably on other browsers too) you can have more than one homepages, each one in a different tab.
Why do the extra step of clicking all those four links, while you can auto-load them when the browser starts?
Dan HouserFeb 16th 2010 8:24AM
You're about 5 years too late... http://www.danhouser82.com/progs.htm ...see "Silent Start Page"
famehFeb 18th 2010 6:23AM
I don't mind why to use this instead of multiple tabs as startup.
And if you need to enter in this sites so frequently, then that's a waste of time, you should use there www.netvibes.com...
JacobFeb 21st 2010 8:00AM
Fav4.org is nice, but there is a slightly more sophisticated site with the same basic idea, with a Google search box and the 150 most popular links - www.zenstart.com