Fauxbar
An alternative to Chrome's Omnibox. Replaces the New Tab page.
What is Fauxbar?
Fauxbar is a Chrome extension developed by Chris McFarland, and its main feature is "An alternative to Chrome's Omnibox. Replaces the New Tab page.".
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Download Fauxbar Extension CRX File
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Extension Usage Instructions
Fauxbar makes Chrome's New Tab page act like classic Firefox's Awesome Bar:
• Quickly find the history page, tab or bookmark you're after
• Results are ranked using Mozilla's frecency algorithm, just like Firefox
• Add and use your favorite websites' search engines with ease
• Show tiled thumbnails for your top websites and installed Chrome apps
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.
What's the difference between Fauxbar and Fauxbar Lite? -- Fauxbar replaces Chrome's New Tab page; Fauxbar Lite does not.
If you'd rather keep Chrome's New Tab page as is, please install Fauxbar Lite instead: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bfimmnpbjccjihohjkimphfmmebffbmk
For Fauxbar's source code, please visit https://github.com/ChrisNZL/Fauxbar
Features include:
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, and Add/Edit Keyword
• 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 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, DuckDuckGo, 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
Fauxbar is not affiliated with Google, Chrome, Mozilla, Firefox, or the original AwesomeBar.
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Recent changes:
14 June 2019 – v1.8.1
• Fixed a database locking issue that was introduced in Chrome 75.
• Slightly increased Address Box result padding.
• Added info when prompting to add an Address Box result keyword.
• Updated suggested keyboard shortcuts. Extension Basic Information
| Name |  Fauxbar |
| ID | hibkhcnpkakjniplpfblaoikiggkopka |
| Official URL | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fauxbar/hibkhcnpkakjniplpfblaoikiggkopka |
| Description | An alternative to Chrome's Omnibox. Replaces the New Tab page. |
| File Size | 328 KB |
| Installation Count | 4,351 |
| Current Version | 1.8.1 |
| Last Updated | 2019-06-13 |
| Publish Date | 2019-06-13 |
| Rating | 4.23/5 Total 188 Ratings |
| Developer | Chris McFarland |
| Extension Website | https://github.com/ChrisNZL/Fauxbar |
| Help Page URL | https://github.com/ChrisNZL/Fauxbar/wiki |
| Supported Languages | en |
| manifest.json | |
{
"update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx",
"name": "Fauxbar",
"version": "1.8.1",
"description": "An alternative to Chrome's Omnibox. Replaces the New Tab page.",
"minimum_chrome_version": "49",
"background": {
"scripts": [
"\/js\/jquery-1.7.min.js",
"\/js\/common.js",
"\/js\/common-1.js",
"\/js\/logerror.js",
"\/js\/md5-min.js",
"\/js\/background-new.js"
],
"persistent": true
},
"options_page": "html\/launchoptions.html",
"chrome_url_overrides": {
"newtab": "html\/fauxbar.html#newTab"
},
"browser_action": {
"default_title": "Open Fauxbar",
"default_icon": "img\/fauxbar19.png"
},
"commands": {
"addressBoxCurrentTab": {
"suggested_key": {
"default": "Alt+D"
},
"description": "Open Fauxbar's Address Box in the current tab"
},
"addressBoxNewTab": {
"suggested_key": {
"default": "Ctrl+T"
},
"description": "Open Fauxbar's Address Box in a new tab"
},
"searchBoxCurrentTab": {
"suggested_key": {
"default": "Ctrl+K"
},
"description": "Open Fauxbar's Search Box in the current tab"
},
"searchBoxNewTab": {
"suggested_key": {
"default": "Ctrl+Shift+K"
},
"description": "Open Fauxbar's Search Box in a new tab"
}
},
"manifest_version": 2,
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"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": [
" | |
