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How to Enable Chromes Best Features in Firefox?

Stealther

Chrome’s Incognito browsing turns on incognito surfing that allows viewing porn without keeping any history of that browsing session anywhere on your computer and in Firefox, the Stealther extension does the same thing. The main difference is that in Chrome, a single window can enter Incognito mode, whereas in Firefox it’s enabled globally.

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Download Statusbar

The Download Statusbar Firefox extension puts downloads in your status bar and it offers lots of additional options and saves substantial RAM space. Chrome is all about saving space, so the files you download do not break out into a separate window, instead they live in your status bar.

Speed Dial and Auto Dial

Chrome’s empty tab page displays your most visited sites, most used search boxes and even your recently closed tabs. The Speed Dial (and Auto Dial) extension for Firefox, provides a very similar thumbnail based new tab page where you can quickly access them with keyboard shortcuts which power up your empty tabs.

Locationbar2 Adds Domain-Highlighting to the Address Bar

Google Chrome’s “omni bar” sports root domain highlighting, a cool feature that doubles as a nice anti-phishing device. The Locationbar2 Firefox extension boasts of a similar highlighting app that adds domain highlighting to the address bar in addition to several other excellent features.

Prism Extension Turns Any Site into a Separate Application

Chrome makes it easy on you to break out a webapp you use all day long into a separate window and desktop shortcut. The concept of separating webapps isn’t new, with Prism for Firefox extension that turns any website into a separate app, where you need to go to Tools -> Convert Website to Application to break a webapp into a separate window and application.

Keyword Search Bookmarks

Chrome also doesn’t currently support keyword bookmarking in general, which is one of the most time saving features in Firefox. The keyword search bookmarks integrate site specific search with the address bar in Firefox. It’s not as attractive as Speed Dial or Chrome’s new tab page, though. But it’s also not much of an innovation over keyword searches in Firefox where you have to manually add a search box but you can also define exactly what you want that shortcut to be.

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