How do I get a similar awesome bar (from Firefox) in Chrome?
You indicated in one of your comments that you want to turn off the search suggestions feature. To do that:
- Click the Wrench menu.
- Go to Preferences.
- Go to the Under the Hood tab.
- Uncheck Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed into the address bar.
Chrome will now only suggest results from your browsing history when typing in the address bar.
Fauxbar makes Chrome's New Tab page act like 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
- Alter the frecency algorithm's scoring if desired
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fauxbar/hibkhcnpkakjniplpfblaoikiggkopka
If you want to stick with Chrome, you can also uncheck "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar."
I’m not sure but I think that https://code.google.com/archive/p/fauxbar/issues is shutdown.
Someone forked it to Github here:
https://github.com/ChrisNZL/Fauxbar
Easy History is another newer alternative.
https://github.com/nikhilgupta1211/Easy-History
Visit webpages by just entering a simple Keyword and Search the history with a fast and clean Interface
The whole extension is built on the idea to minimise mouse usage.
By simply pressing two keys access the Easy History Extension(Default keys: Ctrl+Space).
With the help of Easy History you can also easily navigate though your Browser history with a very clean interface.
You can also choose whether you want the history to be sorted according to the time or your visits to the link.
Time: History will be arranged in a manner such that the last visited link will be on the top.
Visits: History will be arranged in a manner such that the most visited link will be on the top