🟦 GSD 25.9: ▦ Grid layout, ▶️ YouTube thumbnails, ▤ Multi-page sorting, 🕓 Automatic backups (Patreon)

▦ Grid layout

Did you ever wanted to resize a single dial? Maybe stretch it a bit?Say no more! :)

With the new Grid layout, each dial can be resized and moved independently.

Check also short video example in the new Group layouts Wiki page:https://github.com/fastaddons/GroupSpeedDial/wiki/Group-layouts#grid-layout

▶️ YouTube and Vimeo thumbnails

YouTube has been recently breaking my thumbnails generator.

To fix it, my addon will now download official video thumbnail directly from the video link:

Currently this behavior is enabled only for YouTube and Vimeo, but it should with any popular video page. You can test with other pages by adding it to the list of domains in the Options page / Thumbnails:

▤ Multi-page sorting

When you use "Add this page to dial" (form context menu or toolbar icon), and then click on existing Multi-page dial, it will add the page at the end of the list.

Now, you can change this behavior with the new "Sort by" option:

🕓 Automatic local backups

For those of you that prefer local backups, you can now schedule automatic full backups (including Thumbnails).

In Firefox, they can be created only in the specific sub-folder of your Downloads directory:

📈 Other improvements

thumbnails generator has been greatly improved - in Firefox it will never again cut or merge two screenshots, and in Chrome it should create sharper thumbnails

"Group background" can now be applied only to the group name (not the dials part, which can use globally set background)

using "Add this tab to dials" (right-click on a tab) will now use all selected tabs (use Ctrl/Shift to select multiple tabs), Firefox only feature

modal window "Don't forget your password!" has now "Don't show again" button in the corner

faster dials page loading (especially if your dials page contains "Timer/Top Sites/Session dial")

empty space between dials is now clickable (it won't open nearby dial)

And as usual, there is also many other bug-fixes 🐛 and small improvements, full addon changelog is here.

Now I'm already working on a new release, my todo list has more than 800 lines, so there is a lot of work to be done.

❤️ Thank you all for supporting my work! I couldn't do it without you!