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by Pewpewarrows 5422 days ago
Chrome's Omnibar is under intense development, and the latest stable version (13) now supports substring matches on almost everything. The flags in 14 and 15 basically turn it completely into Firefox's Awesomebar.

Xmarks is ok, but it only covers a fraction of Chrome's synching, which includes Bookmarks, Passwords, Form Input, Extensions, and Preferences. And it's being completely integrated with their forthcoming Profiles feature, which means that I can finally easily switch between dev extensions enabled (which otherwise use a LOT of resources if left on for regular browsing) and normal profiles, and the bookmarks/passwords of a significant other don't interfere with my own.

I haven't checked out Glims, so thanks for the link.

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Xmarks on the other hand supports tagging which Google still not managed to implement. I'm using Xmarks (for cross-browser syncing) as well as Chrome's native sync but after setting up a new OS install I've got every bookmark twice.