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Google Chrome like omnibar in Mozilla Firefox

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How to make Firefox's awesomebar (addressbar) to work like in Chrome? I mean especially search (words search, not URLs) auto complete from search history.

This addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ ) does not answer my question, but I like to use it too. This addon suggests words search from search engine suggestions list, but I want also suggestions from phrases, which I inputted early (like in Chrome), with immediately showing it in awesomebar by blue (or red) color while I typing. Also I want autosaving of this suggesstions between browser restart. Also I want autosaving of this suggestions between browser restarting.

I want like this, but not only for URLs suggestions (I want for words suggestions from my search history too): http://chromespot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/omnibox-suggestions.png ( http://chromespot.com/2013/07/16/chrome-omnibox-updated-with-better-suggestions/ )

Something like this: http://s9.postimg.org/jezt7vcsf/02_07_2014.png http://postimg.org/image/58k2cn1x7/

P.S: Omnibox is the other name for Omnibar addon, which does not satisfy my requests as I wrote in my question.

How to make Firefox's awesomebar (addressbar) to work like in Chrome? I mean especially search (words search, not URLs) auto complete from search history. This addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ ) does not answer my question, but I like to use it too. This addon suggests words search from search engine suggestions list, but I want also suggestions from phrases, which I inputted early (like in Chrome), with immediately showing it in awesomebar by blue (or red) color while I typing. Also I want autosaving of this suggesstions between browser restart. Also I want autosaving of this suggestions between browser restarting. I want like this, but not only for URLs suggestions (I want for words suggestions from my search history too): http://chromespot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/omnibox-suggestions.png ( http://chromespot.com/2013/07/16/chrome-omnibox-updated-with-better-suggestions/ ) Something like this: http://s9.postimg.org/jezt7vcsf/02_07_2014.png http://postimg.org/image/58k2cn1x7/ P.S: Omnibox is the other name for Omnibar addon, which does not satisfy my requests as I wrote in my question.

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HI Mvitamin, Had a similar question asked earlier this week. Sorry to hear it was not answered. Did you find any add ons that were similar? Can we recruit the developer of Omnibar to make a Firefox Add on?

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You can try to ask developers (Suppor E-mail on addon page): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ , https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar-plus/ . I can't find similar addon as I need.