Moving from Speed Dial 2 to Tabdial

Checked with Speed Dial 2 version 4.0.0 on September 30, 2026

In short: save a file from Speed Dial 2, then open it in Tabdial. It takes a couple of minutes. You don't need a Speed Dial 2 account or its Pro plan, and your groups, titles and logo thumbnails come along.

Save your dials from Speed Dial 2

Do this before you install Tabdial. Chrome shows only one new tab extension at a time, and the one installed last wins.

1. Open a new tab, so Speed Dial 2 shows your dials.
2. Click the menu button (three lines) in the top-right corner. The Preferences window opens.
3. In the list on the left, click System.
4. Click Export settings. Chrome saves a file named like speed-dial-2-export-2026-09-30.json to your Downloads folder.

Already installed Tabdial? Open chrome://extensions, switch Tabdial off, do the steps above, then switch Tabdial back on.

Open the file in Tabdial

5. Install Tabdial from the Chrome Web Store. If Chrome asks whether you meant to change your new tab page, choose to keep the change.
6. Open a new tab and click Settings in the top-right corner.
7. Under Your data, click Import a file and choose the speed-dial-2-export-….json file.
8. Tabdial tells you how many dials it imported. Click Done and check your groups.

Importing adds to what is already in Tabdial and never deletes anything. Dials you already have are skipped, so importing the same file twice is harmless.

What comes along

• Groups, in the same order. Speed Dial 2's Home group keeps the name it has there, so in English it joins Tabdial's own Home group.
• Dials, in the order you arranged them.
• Titles, including ones you renamed.
• Logo thumbnails from Speed Dial 2's logo library, and thumbnails you set from an image link. These are links to images on the web, so Tabdial loads them from the same place Speed Dial 2 did.

What doesn't

• Page capture thumbnails. Speed Dial 2 keeps those pictures out of its export file. Those dials show a colored tile with the site's first letter. To give one a picture, point at the dial in Tabdial, click its pencil button (Edit), then Upload image or paste an image link.
• Look and layout: theme, background, columns and spacing. Set yours in Tabdial's Settings.
• Everything else Speed Dial 2 keeps: visit counts, group colors, the sidebar, focus mode and your Speed Dial 2 account.

Afterwards

When your dials look right in Tabdial, you can remove Speed Dial 2 from chrome://extensions. Keep the exported file if you like; it is your own copy.

Something didn't come across as described here? Email support@nexuscortex.dev and tell us what you saw. Please don't attach the file unless you are happy to share the sites in it.