Move from Speed Dial 2

1. Export from Speed Dial 2

1. Open Speed Dial 2’s Preferences.
2. Go to the System section and click Export.
3. Your browser saves a .json file, usually in Downloads.

If your version looks different, look in its settings for the Import/Export or backup section.

2. Import into Dialshelf

1. Install Dialshelf and open a new tab.
2. If your shelf is empty, click Import a file. If you already have dials, open Settings › Sync & data and click Import a file.
3. Pick the .json file you exported.
4. Choose which groups to bring over, then click Import.

Want your browser bookmarks too? Click Import my bookmarks on the empty shelf, or Import bookmarks in Settings › Sync & data. Each bookmark folder becomes a group.

What comes over

• Your groups, with their names, in the same order.
• Every dial in each group, with its address and title, in the same order.
• Visit counts, when the file has them.
• Pictures you uploaded to Speed Dial 2 yourself. They stay where Speed Dial 2 stored them (uploads.speeddial2.com), so a tile shows its picture for as long as that address works. You can paste or drop a copy into the tile editor any time.
• Your layout, if you want it: columns, spacing, corner shape, open in a new tab, whether titles show, square tiles, and a light, dark or automatic theme. The import window has a box for this, ticked to start with. Untick it to keep Dialshelf’s own layout.

If you already have a group with the same name, the dials go into it, and addresses already in that group are skipped. Backgrounds don’t come over, and neither do the thumbnails Speed Dial 2 made for you: Dialshelf shows real logos instead.

After the import

170 popular sites have sharp logos built into Dialshelf, so those tiles look right straight away. For the other sites, Dialshelf offers to look up each site’s own logo. It tells you what it will contact and asks first. Choose Not now and those tiles use the browser’s small icon.