One of the main features that Chrome brought about was a revolutionary start page.
Even hardcore Firefox users, who jump at every opportunity to trash Google Chrome, accept that Chrome’s start page is awesome. It’s simple yet powerful and above all - usable.
No wonder people wished that there was an equivalent feature in Firefox. And cheers to some wonderful Firefox extension developers, we now can enjoy similar functionality in Firefox too.
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In today’s Firefox Gyan, we introduce you to two extensions that mimic Google Chrome’s start page.
New Tab JumpStart
This is an experimental extension, that provides an exact look alike of the Google Chrome / Chromium start page. You’ll need an account at addons.mozilla.org, in order to download the extension. If you don’t have account, feel free to use the direct link given:
Download New Tab JumpStart | Direct Link
Tracer
Tracer is a relatively young (and again – experimental) Firefox addon that brings chrome like start page to Firefox. It’s lacking in features compared to the above said JumpStart addon, but we found this relatively easy on eyes that the other.
You’ll need an account at addons.mozilla.org to download it from there. Else you can use the direct link provided below.
Know about any extensions better than these? Tell us in the comments.
JumpStart caused problems in FF 3.0.2.
My Address bar started working funny, Bookmarks Toolbar was not showing anything... I even tried Uninstalling and Reinstalling, no use.
After removing JumpStart, everything returned to normal :)
JumpStart's idea sounds neat. Too bad the extension is not working at all here. Having the same issues that atoztoa, plus my sesion doesn't restart at all nor I can use google toolbar or the search field either. They just don't work until I disable the new experimental extension.
I'll leave it there to check it when a new vresion comes in.
no longer we have to stick with Firefox. Chrome 4 introduces Extensions support, within couple of months you have extensions for almost everything you have of FF. Tos tart with here is one for Twitter as a client in chrome 4
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1860
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