Screenshot Walkthrough
When you install Fauxbar for the first time, Fauxbar processes your Chrome history items and bookmarks to create its own separate index. This only takes a moment, and once complete, the index is updated silently on-the-fly from then on.
This is the standard Fauxbar layout and styling. The Address Box is on the left; the Search Box is on the right.
In this example, the Address Box is showing a list of top pages from a user's Chrome history and bookmarks.
When typing into the Address Box, Fauxbar displays matching pages from your history, bookmarks and opened tabs, with full support for mid-word searching and non-alphanumeric characters.
The above example has the Address Box auto-completing the user's query, based on the highest-ranked matching URL.
This second example above shows how Fauxbar is able to do mid-word searching.
This third example above shows the context menu that appears when you right-click on a result.
The fourth and fifth examples above show how a search engine can be selected and used from the Address Box.
You can also add a keyword (aka tag or label) to a URL. Typing a keyword into Fauxbar's Address Box will always display matching keyworded results first.
When a search query is entered in the Search Box (or the Address Box, once a search engine has been selected), past queries and suggestions from the selected search engine can be displayed.
When visiting a site that has a search field, right-click on the search field. If Fauxbar (or Fauxbar Lite) is able to interpret the field's form code, Fauxbar: Add as search engine will appear in the right-click context menu.
In this example, Fauxbar Lite has detected that Wolfram|Alpha's input box can be used as a search engine.
Clicking Fauxbar's context menu item will then present a pre-filled pop-up box, letting you edit the search engine's name, keyword and URL if desired, before adding it to Fauxbar.
Fauxbar can display your top sites as tiled thumbnails.
Site tiles can be chosen and arranged automatically, or you can decide which tiles to use, and how they should be placed.
In the above example, a site tile is being clicked and dragged into place.
Installed Chrome apps can also be viewed as tiles.
A condensed version of Fauxbar's Address Box can be accessed from Chrome's Omnibox.
By pressing F+Spacebar, you can find your history items and bookmarks using Fauxbar from the Omnibox. This can be handy if you don't feel like opening the main Fauxbar page.
A peek at Fauxbar's Options page, with a custom background. Fauxbar has 60+ options you can configure. You can open Fauxbar's Options by right-clicking anywhere within Fauxbar.
Fauxbar lets you choose a custom background image to display. You can also change many other color options.