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Chris McFarland edited this page May 22, 2019
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Fauxbar brings Firefox's Awesome Bar functionality to Google Chrome.
Fauxbar's features include:
- Accurately find your history items, bookmarks, and opened tabs
- Results are ranked by the frecency algorithm, just like Firefox's Awesome Bar
- Full support for mid-word searching and non-alphanumeric characters
- Consistent URL auto-fill / auto-complete
- Intelligent page pre-rendering
- Keyword shortcuts for your favorite websites
- Right-click options such as Add/Edit Bookmark and Add/Edit Keyword
- Paste & Go
- Search engine keyword shortcuts
- URL blacklist
- Switch-to-tab functionality
- Use your favorite search engines with the dedicated Search Box
- Or, hide the Search Box and just use search engines from the Address Box
- Easily add your favorite websites' search engines to Fauxbar when you visit a searchable site
- Assign keywords to search engines for quick access
- Or, click the menu for a visual list of your search engines
- Suggestions can be displayed as you type your query (suggestions from the selected search engine will be retrieved where available)
- Paste & Search
- Fauxbar detects search engines that use the OpenSearch declaration
- Fauxbar also detects most simplistic search engines, even if OpenSearch is not declared
- Show tiles for your installed Chrome apps
- Show tiles for your favorite websites with screenshot thumbnails
- Let Fauxbar choose site tiles for you, or manually choose them yourself
- Click and drag site tiles to rearrange
- Omnibox integration: type F+Spacebar to access Fauxbar without leaving the page you're on
- Override Chrome's Alt+D, Ctrl+L, and Ctrl+K commands with Fauxbar's equivalents
- Choose font names, sizes, colors and background image
- Let Fauxbar take focus away from Chrome's Omnibox automatically, or keep it as is
- Choose the number of results to display at a time
- Comes preset with Google, Yahoo! and Bing
- Delete a URL from Chrome's history right from Fauxbar without having to open Chrome's History page
- Alter the frecency algorithm's scoring if desired
- More than 60 different configurable options
- Backup, restore, and/or reset Fauxbar's options with ease
Do you dislike Chrome's Omnibox? You're not alone.
Become a Fauxbar user and transform Chrome's New Tab page into something more useful.