The pages I need fastest.

I tried using FastDial for FireFox but it didn't do everything for me that I needed.

Having each of my most used pages ready to click whenever I opened a new tab was hip but unfortunately it wasn't fast enough for me. An intuitive-type person might like FastDial. You're presented with boxes where small representations or icons are displayed for you to click on.

That's too many steps for me. When I'm looking for a link to page when I already know what that page is, I don't want to look through eight or ten images to figure out which one it is.

I took advantage of keywords instead. They are only available in Firefox. Internet Explorer allows you to assign shortcut keys, but not keywords.

A few links to help get you acquainted:
Firefox keywords
Lifehacker article on Firefox keywords - with some good links in the article.

What I've set up at my daytime job is a series of keywords to the pages that I use most frequently. Since there are a lot of different tasks I need to perform when an incoming call comes in or a form is submitted, I need to get to a variety of different web pages without too much thinking.

What I've done is take the most common pages and bookmarked them, while adding a keyword - specifically a keyword associated with the task.

When someone calls in to change their payment type on their account, I type 'pay' in the address bar (or hit control-l to get to the address bar and then type 'pay' and then hit enter).

I do this for a few others as well.
whois - Network Solution's whois check
signup - account creation form internal to my company
(webservername) - direct access to an web-admin interface of a server.
mon - a monitoring utility
st - staff pages internal to our company
kb - the company knowledge base
modems - a link directly the reference for DSL modems that we use at work

I'd imagine this would be especially useful with frequently used Google Documents - and I may be making more web pages specifically with this use in mind.

At home I've been thinking a few would be helpful
fb - facebook.com
bank - self explanatory, no?
ms - myspace
tw - twitter
bl - my blogger account
e - my webmail account.

I might even go further and open multiple tabs with a single keyword if I find the need for it. That might come in handy for web development projects.