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To everybody asking what Firefox has that Chrome lacks: The Awesomebar. I haven't seen it mentioned here but it's by far the thing I miss the most from FF (alo

To everybody asking what Firefox has that Chrome lacks: The Awesomebar. I haven't seen it mentioned here but it's by far the thing I miss the most from FF (along with FireBug and TreeStyle Tabs). It practically replaces bookmarks for me because because it searches through the history. In Chrome it feels like I have to re-google everything unless I remember the exact url.

IChrisI 16y ago
Personally, I like Chrome's address bar better than Firefox 4's. In Chrome, I can type g-m-<enter> to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-<down>-<enter>. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me. Can't live without Tree Style Tabs though. Firefox is my "heavy lifting" browser.
- DEinspanjer 16y ago
  I greatly prefer being able to hit enter on the first result too. Here is the addon I use to enable that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-prospector-speak-/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-...
  - bad_user 16y ago
    You don't need an addon -- the option is in about:config.
    - waterhouse 16y ago
      Specifically, browser.urlbar.autoFill. (Found that out just now.)
- falcolas 16y ago
  You can use tab instead of the down arrow - pretty much identical to tab completion in the linux command line.
- thinkalone 16y ago
  You can change FF's behavior to match Chrome: setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to true in about:config will enable inline autocomplete in the awesomebar, instead of having to arrow down or tab down. The solution I use is bookmarking sites and aliasing keywords to the bookmark - right click on a bookmark, go to properties, and add a keyword. For example, I have "hn" as the keyword for the Hacker News homepage, so if I type "hn" and hit enter, it expands to the full URL and goes to the page.
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  > In Chrome, I can type g-m-<enter> to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-<down>-<enter>. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me. This is really easy to do in Firefox with keyword bookmarks[0]. In fact, this is one of the things I hate about Chrome - keyword bookmarks are a total hack (you have to create a search engine without the %s, for string substitution). 0: http://lifehacker.com/#!196779/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-art-of-keyword-bookmarking http://lifehacker.com/#!196779/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-a...
- cnu 16y ago
  Yeah. In chrome I can type just the domain (without the www. part). But FF (even with the urlbar.autofill property set requires me to type with www. And in chrome I can do ctrl+shift+pageup/pagedown to move the tabs around. FF doesn't allow that. Minor irritant, but thats what makes me like chrome.
rhizome 16y ago
This is a good point that I've only noticed recently. Address bar completion in Chrome is much much worse than in Firefox.
- rorrr 16y ago
  Yeah, I really miss Firefox URL keyword search. Too bad it becomes very slow as your history grows (at least in the older versions of FF).
  - decode 16y ago
    That's definitely an issue, but there's a workaround if you want to do it. You need to VACUUM the sqlite database like this: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-for-better-performance-now-with-no-restart/ http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-...
    - zpao 16y ago
      Firefox actually vacuums occasionally now (I think ~1/month for the places database)
  - rhizome 16y ago
    Running 3.latest forever, I keep 4 months and it's as snappy as anything for what I use it for. I can get to the top 5 of my visited sites ordered by number of visits for each letter of the alphabet in one or two characters. While the history sidebar is exceedingly slow in doing searches, the address bar MRU is what they have nailed.

IChrisI 16y ago

Personally, I like Chrome's address bar better than Firefox 4's. In Chrome, I can type g-m-<enter> to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-<down>-<enter>. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me. Can't live without Tree Style Tabs though. Firefox is my "heavy lifting" browser.

DEinspanjer 16y ago
I greatly prefer being able to hit enter on the first result too. Here is the addon I use to enable that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-prospector-speak-/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-...
- bad_user 16y ago
  You don't need an addon -- the option is in about:config.
  - waterhouse 16y ago
    Specifically, browser.urlbar.autoFill. (Found that out just now.)
falcolas 16y ago
You can use tab instead of the down arrow - pretty much identical to tab completion in the linux command line.
thinkalone 16y ago
You can change FF's behavior to match Chrome: setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to true in about:config will enable inline autocomplete in the awesomebar, instead of having to arrow down or tab down. The solution I use is bookmarking sites and aliasing keywords to the bookmark - right click on a bookmark, go to properties, and add a keyword. For example, I have "hn" as the keyword for the Hacker News homepage, so if I type "hn" and hit enter, it expands to the full URL and goes to the page.
w1ntermute 16y ago
> In Chrome, I can type g-m-<enter> to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-<down>-<enter>. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me. This is really easy to do in Firefox with keyword bookmarks[0]. In fact, this is one of the things I hate about Chrome - keyword bookmarks are a total hack (you have to create a search engine without the %s, for string substitution). 0: http://lifehacker.com/#!196779/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-art-of-keyword-bookmarking http://lifehacker.com/#!196779/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-a...
cnu 16y ago
Yeah. In chrome I can type just the domain (without the www. part). But FF (even with the urlbar.autofill property set requires me to type with www. And in chrome I can do ctrl+shift+pageup/pagedown to move the tabs around. FF doesn't allow that. Minor irritant, but thats what makes me like chrome.

rhizome 16y ago

This is a good point that I've only noticed recently. Address bar completion in Chrome is much much worse than in Firefox.

rorrr 16y ago
Yeah, I really miss Firefox URL keyword search. Too bad it becomes very slow as your history grows (at least in the older versions of FF).
- decode 16y ago
  That's definitely an issue, but there's a workaround if you want to do it. You need to VACUUM the sqlite database like this: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-for-better-performance-now-with-no-restart/ http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-...
  - zpao 16y ago
    Firefox actually vacuums occasionally now (I think ~1/month for the places database)
- rhizome 16y ago
  Running 3.latest forever, I keep 4 months and it's as snappy as anything for what I use it for. I can get to the top 5 of my visited sites ordered by number of visits for each letter of the alphabet in one or two characters. While the history sidebar is exceedingly slow in doing searches, the address bar MRU is what they have nailed.