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Google Toolbar Brings Google Chrome New Tab Feature in Firefox

By on February 1, 2009

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On my previous post, I have mentioned about New Tab JumpStart, a Firefox extension that loaded the empty screen of a new tab page in your Firefox with Google Chrome new tab feature like image thumbnails and links of the most frequently used sites, latest bookmarked pages, searches and recently closed tabs. 

Google Toolbar Bring Google Chrome New Tab Feature to Firefox

Now without using this Firefox add-on, you can aslo get the Google Chrome’s new tab page feature in your Firefox. What you need to do is install the latest Google Toolbar 5 Beta. After the complete installation, every time when you open up a new tab in Firefox, instead of the blank boring white page you see by default in Firefox, you will instead see small thumbnails of your favorite sites (up to 9), as well as recently-closed and bookmarked pages based on your browser history, just like what’s you see in Google Chrome.

If you want to switch back to blank new tab page, you can disable the Google new tab page by right clicking the Google logo in the Google toolbar,  go to Options and uncheck the “Enable the Google new tab page” option.

Steve Yu is a technology blogger with five years blogging experience (since 2007). He is the founder of MyTechQuest.com.

  • http://pixobyte.com Nicholas | Pixobyte.com

    This is an osome trick thanks

  • http://www.telepisodes.com Telepisodes

    i’ve been looking for this kind of plug-in for Firefox, that’s the only feature i like about Opera and Chrome, this kind of thumbnail preview of most visited or recently opened websites. thanks man!

  • http://techsagar.com Prasanna

    looks good. Have they provided any options to access the Chrome bookmarks from Firefox ?. If not, I would love to see something like that in the future.

  • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

    Prasanna > Maybe you can try to convert the chrome bookmark to firefox format. Try transmute.

  • http://www.niharsworld.com/ Nihar

    Nice feature. Thanks for the info.

  • j

    to disable
    1. type “about:config” into the address bar and press enter
    2. double click on “google.toolbar.newtab” so it’s value is set to false

  • http://linkmoko.blogspot.com/ Linkmoko

    That’s a great plug-in for Firefox. After the installation, every time when we open up a new tab in Firefox, instead of the blank white page you see by default in Firefox, you will instead see small thumbnails of your favorite sites, as well as recently-closed and bookmarked pages based on your browser history, just like what’s you see in Google Chrome.
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    Great info. Have they provided any options to access the Chrome bookmarks from Firefox. What i like on Chrome also is If you want to switch back to blank new tab page, you can disable the Google new tab page by right clicking the Google logo in the Google toolbar, go to Options and unchecked the “Enable the Google new tab page” option.
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