The Chrome Touch for Firefox 3.5 in 10 steps

As I had said before, I really like the Chrome’s minimalistic interface and features. On Linux, I use Firefox because there are useful firefox addons, like TwitterFox. After I updated my Firefox, I had to disable/remove few addons and the theme, because of compatibility issues.

Firefox 3.5 has several new features like “Private Browsing” in built, so we can do away with the Distrust addon.

1. The theme is Chromifox Extreme. Along with it install the Chromifox Companion. Restart and you will find Firefox to already have the Chrome look. Chromifox Companion, is a really good companion.
2. Next to remove the Search Bar. Open “Customize Toolbar” window from View>Toolbar>Customize. And pull the Search Bar into the window. The Address Bar should lengthen and fill up the space.
3. That Search Bar was pretty helpful. We will now add the “Google Search” feature to the Address Bar. Open “about:config” in a new tab. After promising, search for “keyworld.URL”. Change the value to “http://www.google.com/search?q=”. Enough. To search, for any query, just type it into the Address Bar and press enter. It should bring the Google Search results page.
4. The Search Bar we removed in step 3, helped you search more than one site. Install Peers, and edit the preferences. Completes the integration of the Search bar features to Navigation bar.
5. To bring downloads to the Status Bar, install Download StatusBar.
6. Install the DOM Inspector. This is to add the DOM Inspector feature of Chrome.
7. To make more space, install the Hide Menubar addon. The menubar can now be toggled with the Alt key.
8. For the green triangle, representing Go in Chrome’s location bar, install Show Go.
9. For highlighting the main domain in the Location Bar, install LocationBar2.
10. To view Source of webpages in Tab rather than a new window, I installed the Source Viewer Tab.

The firefox title bar won’t be removed. I am thinking of a way to hide/remove the titlebar. Will update asap!

P.S. If you have used Google Chrome, then you must be knowing about the inline autocomplete feature of the Address Bar. That is it completes the text automatically, based on the characters you provide. For that feature in Firefox, open a new tab, and type “about:config”. After the promise, search for “browser.url.autoFill” and change it’s value to true. Now (if you have visited twitter.com before) type ‘t’,'w’,'i’, and Firefox should complete it for you.

For gmail, I had to type ‘www.g’ for it to auto complete.

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