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Chris McFarland edited this page May 22, 2019 · 6 revisions

Fauxbar's Features

Fauxbar brings Firefox's Awesome Bar functionality to Google Chrome.

Fauxbar's features include:

Address Box:

  • 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

Search Box and search engines:

  • 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

Tiles:

  • 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

Other features:

  • 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.

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