You can’t.
BUT….
The real solution to this problem will clearly only be resolved when Google finally starts including the ability to either import Add-Ons (ideal) or for developers to start creating their own. I’m personally shocked that they haven’t already included this since they will lose a lot of the momentum they have garnered from the impressive performance.
HOWEVER … you have not made it this far down this post for nothing. I am dedicating this post (and open thread) to make-shift solutions to any sorely missed add-ons.
That said, here are three that I’ve just figured out:
Spell Check:
The spell-check is built-in to Chrome - okay that was easy.
Managing Bookmarks in Google Chrome
For starters, you can import your bookmarks from any other browser at any time with Google Chrome (and they even remain in the same order and folders). Of course, this does me no good since I’ve been using Foxmarks to manage my bookmarks AND RSS feeds. HOWEVER, I have figured out a pretty good solution.
- In Firefox, install the GMarks add-on.
- Using GMarks, synchronize all of your Firefox bookmarks with Google Bookmarks.
- In Chrome, open a tab with your Google Bookmarks and save any Chrome bookmarks in there.
- For greater bookmark functionality, use Google Notebook
- For even greater ease of use, I recommend embedding your bookmarks directly into your iGoogle page.
*Once this is done, I highly recommend uninstalling GMarks since it overrides the very useful bookmarking system used in Firefox 3.
RSS Feeds in Google Chrome
Tragically, there is still no auto-recognize feature for RSS feeds and they are definitely not available in the toolbar. This, to me, is the worst thing about Chrome right now, though I’m confident Google will be addressing it very shortly. However, there is a simple web-based solution to this, assuming you have all your bookmarks in Google Bookmarks:
- Sign up to Google Reader
- At the bottom left of the screen you will notice “Manage Subscriptions”
- Click “Import/Export”
- Follow the directions to import your feeds into Google Reader.
- Voila! Chrome RSS feeds - well, not exactly, but at least they are now just a tab away.
- Again, I recommend embedding your Google Reader feeds into your iGoogle home page to have everything in one tab.
Firefox search bar in Chrome:
I love the ability to change the search engine on the fly in the firefox search bar. This is actually possible in Chrome as well:
- Hit the Customize Google Chrome button at the top right of Chrome (the wrench).
- Select Options.
- In Basics, you can manage the default search engine.
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Feed Viewer for Google Chrome:
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Thank you so much! This info is perfect!
Nice trick..I hope add-ons will be available soon:)
Keep up the good work.
Change the search engine on the fly? Google chrome has a comparible feature: if you have used a search engine at least once, google chrome will recognise it. For example i use a site for torrent search called torrentz.com. When i type in “tor” google chrome directly recognises it as http://www.torrentz.com and the remaining yet untyped letters will appear with blue background. So, to keep you on the track: i typed in tor and google chrome gives me the direct option http://www.torrentz.com (and ofcourse some indirect options i need to scroll down for) and then i hit TAB button. Google chrome then says: search in torrentz.com, then i type in what i want to search and hit ENTER key. Now i get the torrentz.com site with my search on my screen.
This can be done with every website that has a search function you have used at least once, for example yahoo, youtube, googlevideo, torrentz.com, piratebay, myspace etc.
This is the google chrome version of changing search engine on the fly.
Summary: Type in (a part of) the search engine website, hit TAB key and type in what your search is. Now you will see the search on that site of the words you typed in.
I hope this could help
You are joking…
Could agree with you more Kaithy!
How to Install Firefox Add-Ons in Chrome (For Real!)
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go to hill is there need to play with the words and put the title like this ,and the you say you cant use the addons
Why the harsh words? The title is a little sarcastic, but in actually very accurate:
You REALLY can’t include add-ons the way Firefox does. So the title is true. The rest of the post goes on to provide some pretty great workarounds.
I fail to see why this would offend anyone, but am truly sorry if it did!
i install now
Do you think this is funny? I do NOT like lose my time this way.
MOTH*%&$er
Bad title. Just a waste of time to read this crap.
this is all good, but i’m just trying to find a way to change the page rendering engine. the Webkit shell sux, i want it to emulate the trident shell
You’re an ass. I never would have followed the link if it had an appropriate page title. Lying for page hits isn’t going to make you popular. Adding (for real) in the title was an incredible douche move on your part. Thanks for wasting my time.
Don’t apologize. Rename the page.
Brutal title. Misleading just to promote hits to your site. Not very good etiquette, I agree with Michea - rename the page
I maintain that it’s ridiculous that anyone would be offended by this accurate title. Chrome does NOT allow for add-ons. There is nothing false in this title. Nonetheless it seems many commenters are upset. So I put forth the following:
If someone shows me a link that describes how to install Firefox add-ons in Chrome that is MORE for REAL than this post - ANY LINK ON THE WHOLE DAMN INTERNET - than I will CHANGE the title of this very popular post.
If you are not able to do that, then stop wasting my time thank you very much.
Google has a provision for pages that provide inaccurate titles and descriptions to their SERP (Search Engine Results Page) such as “I am dedicating this post (and open thread) to make-shift solutions to any sorely missed add-ons.” Report the offending page at: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en
Google will modify the search ranking of the page (and sometimes the entire web site) accordingly.
Great John thanks!
Now if anyone’s upset about this post, please go ahead and report it. If Google deems it is not relevant, than this will surely fall down in the rankings.
I know this isn’t spam because I put time and effort into making it as good a post about the topic as possible. I maintain the challenge to find a better post on the topic.
Pretty sure Google sees it the same way - even if they manually go through this…
Thanks for this good post. Don’t worry about people nagging. It’s very common.
hi there, i think all people should just hanging there, extensions will be made in course of time. when firefox appeared on the scene , it took somewhile for extensions to appear also
Asfor a multiple searchbox, maybe this extension is something:
http://www.chrome-plugins.info/en/230/quicksearch/
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