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Firefox's AwesomeBar searches history including the titles of pages incrementally. How can I get Chrome to also search the titles in the history?
For example, for this very page, in Firefox, I can search "Firefox Lik" and this page's address shows up in Firefox but not in Chrome.
Is there any Chrome extension that can do this?
Naseer
Posted 2010-05-06T07:48:06.943
Reputation: 206
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Here's a plugin
Update: in my experience, chrome has gotten a lot better at this in the past year or so. Now it is as good as firefox for most use cases.
Scott Schulthess
Posted 2010-05-06T07:48:06.943
Reputation: 231
Unfortunately that currently only searches bookmarks, not the history. – Synetech – 2011-03-26T13:19:44.870
This seems to be doing the job, along with sirlancelot's answer below. – Naseer – 2011-03-27T00:17:01.170
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Chrome 11 has a flag called "Enable better omnibox history matching", you can enable it by typing about:flags in the address bar and clicking "Enable"
matpie
Posted 2010-05-06T07:48:06.943
Reputation: 1 560
I can’t find it. What version exactly? – Synetech – 2011-03-26T13:20:28.427
1It only searches history though - bookmarks are still not searched. The awesome bar in firefox is all that's holding me back to move to Chrome. – Naseer – 2011-03-27T00:14:17.570
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I don’t know exactly what version is required, but newer version of Chrome do indeed include items from the history (at least recent history, though I haven’t tested the extent) in the suggestions for the Omnibox drop-down. The catch is that if you have a large history, it may take a few seconds for Chrome to retrieve them since it offers more immediate things first (like open tabs, MRU pages, MFU pages, etc.)
Synetech
Posted 2010-05-06T07:48:06.943
Reputation: 63 242
What version of Chrome are you using? Are you using default settings so it will store your history? If I open up a new tab in Chrome and type Firefox Lik it will suggest this page (Firefox Like address bar in Chrome - Super User) because it is in my history. – Trey Hunner – 2010-05-06T08:38:16.780
I am using the chrome 5 beta on Windows. Settings are default. – Naseer – 2010-05-06T10:16:37.857
1Chrome beta is up to v. 11 now. Perhaps you should upgrade. – ale – 2011-03-23T17:20:44.877
possible duplicate of Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar
– Synetech – 2012-02-16T04:00:56.903