The best speed dial extension for Chrome!

I just discovered the best speed dial extension for Chrome. Up till now I wasn’t entirely happy with any of the speed dial apps I’ve seen. Many of them are what amount to extension spam – a variation of app spam in the Google Play store, plugin spam in WordPress, or search engine spam in Google – the bane of the modern world. (Thanks Google for unleashing all this sleazebag shit upon the world. I don’t think this grubby shit is what was meant by “bazaar” in the concept of the cathedral vs the bazaar.)

To find this extension I went searching on Github which is a repository for Open Source projects. The fact that a program, app, plugin, or extension is even on Github is already a good sign that its clean and designed by well-intentioned people.

This amazing extension, called Simple Speed Dial can be installed in the following way:

First go to the Simple Speed Dial Github project page linked above and click on the green button Clone or download. Choose the Download ZIP option. Once its downloaded to your system, extract the zip file using 7-zip or any other unzip utility.

Now in Chrome select the menu -> Settings -> Extensions. At the the top check the box to enable Developer mode. That will show a couple buttons at the top of the page. Select the button Load unpacked extension… and navigate to the directory of the extracted zip archive that was created above and press OK.