Around August 2013 Google sent out a new version of Chrome that is no longer compatible with Chrome Toolbox. So far there have been no indicators that the Google team will be updating the toolbox. It's more abandonware from Google.
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The main reason I have stuck with Firefox is Tab Mix
Plus. It is the must have
extension. But the developer of TMP to
date has no interest in porting this gem to Google’s Chrome browser. Lately I have become so frustrated with
Firefox’s speed I gave Chrome another chance and spent a couple of days
searching for something to match TMP’s features.
I finally made the transition to Chrome this week. A whole week without Firefox! I am still not 100% sold on Chrome, I still
feel the extensions in Firefox are more robust but the sheer speed of Chrome
has me sold. I found that Google makes
an extension for Chrome that has one key tab feature to make it one step closer
to TMP’s treasure chest of tab extensions.
Chrome Toolbox by Google has a few tab extensions that do
make life easier. The key feature is
opening a new tab when typing anything on the URL line. Since Chrome has no search window you type
your URL or search request into the same area.
With Google’s Toolbox for Chrome there is an option labeled ‘When
pressing enter in address bar with a URL in it, open the URL in a new tab”. This is awesome, the most difficult part of
the transition was losing my current tab every time I did a search and this
solves that.
Another option in the Google’s Toolbox is “When clicking
on a link, always open in a new tab”. It’s
not exactly what I want. What TMP does is
only open a new link if the domain changes when clicking on a link. I put a request into the Google dev team
about enhancing this feature but from what I am reading they don’t seem to
listen to us users!
