Chrome Who? Get Chrome’s Best Features in Firefox!

The team at Lifehacker have posted a great list of extensions you can use to enable some of Google Chrome’s best features inside of Firefox.

The internet is atwitter with Google Chrome’s innovative new features, but there was no clear winner in our speed test comparing Firefox and Chrome—which means your choice of browser may depend solely on features. Apart from a few specific issues (namely process management), many of Chrome’s best features are already available in Firefox 3, proving yet again the power of extensibility. From incognito browsing and the streamlined download manager to URL highlighting and improved search, let’s take a look at how you can bring some of Google Chrome’s best features to Firefox.

Here is a simple rundown of the tools mentioned:

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Posted on September 4, 2008 in Resources

Comments and Feedback

TwisterMc said on September 4, 2008 (permalink)

What about the ability to search Google from the address bar? I believe this was a Mozilla feature and I’d really like it back.

Mitch said on September 4, 2008 (permalink)

Well, you can search about:config for keyword.URL. Once you have found it there, modify the string in there and replace it with:

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=

Then, when you type in keywords into Firefox, it will search Google for them instead of giving you the “I’m Feeling Lucky” result. Hope that helps!

Popein said on September 4, 2008 (permalink)

It’s more like the “CyberSearch” extension (experimental), which searches while you are typing and adds to the suggestions. Cybersearch also implements the search keywords.
However, I think the most important features of Chrome are the security (Sandbox), Multithread and process isolation, V8 (similar will come to Firefox), and the low memory and resource footprint. That makes it great for home users like my mom and my wife, while technical guys prefer the extensibility of Firefox.

Howard said on September 4, 2008 (permalink)

There’s also the Peers extension for Firefox which also allows you to search from the URL bar AKA the Awesome Bar:

http://www.peersbros.com [Official site]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6589 [AMO]

WebTrafficROI said on September 18, 2008 (permalink)

The most important feature in google is task manager when i am working in ff some times it crash so i lost the working data So i feel it is good thing

revdirectory said on September 18, 2008 (permalink)

Chrome is superb.
Some things i noticed were that firstly, its address bar also works as a search bar and on right clicking it, it also allows to select a particular search engine and secondly, the javascript and feeds are not working properly. Wel, switching to a new browser had never been so easy.

Adidas said on September 20, 2008 (permalink)

Mostly good article, but I disagree with 2 things, the speed of the browser is good but the speed of switching tabs is shocking compared to any other browser. Also the switching is more difficult than you make out without the key feature of a home button which many users base lots of browsing around.

Joby said on November 24, 2008 (permalink)

I threw together these add-ons, plus a few more I found to complete the Firefox-as-Chrome charade, to make a single XPI that will almost instantly turn your Firefox into Chrome. I’m way proud of it, check it out:
http://www.istuffmake.com/2008/11/17/chroming-firefox-the-quick-and-dirty-version-ff2gchrome/

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