Fauxbar is a Google Chrome add-on that provides an alternative to Chrome's Omnibox. Fauxbar replaces the New Tab page.
To use Fauxbar, simply open a new tab, or click the orange Fauxbar icon beside Chrome's Omnibox, or focus the Omnibox and press F+Spacebar.
Fauxbar is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Here are some key features of "Fauxbar":
Address Box:
· Accurately find your history items, bookmarks, and opened tabs
· Results are ranked using Mozilla's frecency algorithm, just like Firefox
· 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, Add/Edit Keyword, and Delete from History
· Paste & Go
· Search engine keyword shortcuts
· URL blacklist
· Switch to tab functionality
Search Box and search engines:
· Right-click on search fields on your favorite websites to add them as Fauxbar 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
· Assign keywords to search engines for quick access, or click a 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
· Supports OpenSearch detection
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
· Speech-to-text input
· 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
Requirements:
· Google Chrome 16 or later
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Improved:
· To comply with Chrome 18's upcoming security requirements for extensions, Fauxbar now uses a Content Security Policy. ( issue #87 )
· Fauxbar's options page's tab opens a little less spastically now.
Fixed:
· The error log was throwing an error in certain cases, preventing errors from being logged.
· Old site thumbnail image files were not getting deleted in Chrome 18. ( issue #90 )
· Focusing an input box would not hide its placeholder text in Chrome 17+.
· "Reload all tabs" was not reloading tabs that belonged to apps and extensions.
· Input box icons were not being recolored in certain cases.
· The global font name option was not being applied to results and context menus.
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