Fauxbar Lite

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An alternative to Chrome's Omnibox.Fauxbar Lite brings classic Firefox's Awesome Bar functionality to Google Chrome:
• Quickly find the history page, tab, or bookmark you're after
• Results are ranked using Mozilla's frecency algorithm, just like Firefox

To use Fauxbar Lite, either focus Chrome's Omnibox and press F+Spacebar, or click the orange Fauxbar icon beside Chrome's Omnibox.

What's the difference between Fauxbar and Fauxbar Lite? -- Fauxbar replaces Chrome's New Tab page; Fauxbar Lite does not.

If you'd like to replace Chrome's New Tab page, please install the original Fauxbar extension instead: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hibkhcnpkakjniplpfblaoikiggkopka

For Fauxbar Lite'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 Lite search engines
• Use added 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 Lite without leaving the page you're on
• Choose font names, sizes, colors and background image
• 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 Lite 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 Lite'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.