[H] Speed dial

[Winterlight]

Back when Opera had a real browser they invented speed dial which was 
a tab that had a collection of small windows on a page that you could 
use as a home page if you wanted and could set it up with the links 
you wanted so that all you had to do was click on a window and go the 
link. It was also dynamic.  Opera called it speed dial.

 Both Firefox and Chrome copied this in their own way but  their 
versions seems useless to me. In Firefox and chrome it appears every 
time you start a new tab. It just seems to show your history in 
arbitrary way that they came up with. Is there a way to configure 
this in Firefox and Chrome and if not what is the point of it. I 
can't even find a menu for it, or even what they call it in Firefox 
or Chrome nor is there any explanation in the help files that I can 
find... of course, it would help if I knew what it was called. Can 
someone clue me in? Thanks.