Firefox toolbar clones Chrome

 

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 2 Feb 2009 at 15:51

Google has released the second beta of its toolbar for Firefox, injecting the browser with a number of Chrome features.

Most prominent is the new tab behaviour, which sees Firefox display thumbnails of nine recently visited pages whenever you open a new tab, instead of the bland blank spaces we're used to.

The feature will be instantly familiar to users of Chrome, as will the recent bookmarks and recently closed tabs lists that appear alongside the tiled pages.

All the thumbnails can be edited, however, security advocates will be pleased to note that unlike Chrome, none of the information about your most viewed sites or recently closed pages will be sent back to Google.

The second beta of the Google toolbar for Firefox can be downloaded here.