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Before switching to Chrome, I always used Firefox, and I always really liked how you could type into the address bar and it would search (a fuzzy search!) for pages that were in the history that matched.

In Chrome, the "results" are just a bunch of search suggestions from Google that I really don't care about (if I want to use a search engine, I'll just go to Google). Is there any way to get Firefox-like address bar searching in Chrome?

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For me in Chrome, I get a mix of suggestions and history by default. – Dennis Williamson Nov 20 '10 at 16:39
This is what I want to avoid. I don't want suggestions, just history. And a better searcher for the history at that. – JustcallmeDrago Nov 24 '10 at 19:09
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That's annoying me to death. I really like firefox' address bar, and I really hate chrome ones :( You need to wait several seconds until the address dropdown box shows some history URLs. – Johannes Schaub - litb Jan 22 '11 at 0:28
I love how Opera already did this for AGES :P. Using the address bar searches the history, bookmarks, notes, etc, but not the search suggestions... This is done with the search bar next to it... – sinni800 Feb 7 '12 at 8:14
possible duplicate of Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar – Mokubai May 7 '12 at 17:53
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You indicated in one of your comments that you want to turn off the search suggestions feature. To do that:

  1. Click the Wrench menu.
  2. Go to Preferences.
  3. Go to the Under the Hood tab.
  4. Uncheck Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed into the address bar.

Chrome will now only suggest results from your browsing history when typing in the address bar.

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Actually, I've already done this. This question was posted long enough ago that I don't remember if I did so because of a response to my question. The address bar is still not very good. It still doesn't search instantly, and it's fuzzy search isn't very good (or maybe I perceive it that way because it isn't instant) – JustcallmeDrago Feb 10 '11 at 1:41
I have search suggestions turned on and use a rather slow mobile broadband Internet connection and it only takes about a second or two for everything to appear. With search suggestions turned off history results appear instantly. I'm using the beta version of Chrome though, so perhaps they've improved this in prerelease versions. – Patches Feb 10 '11 at 2:08
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Hm, I thought Chrome included them by default. Update Chrome and try it again, and double check settings. If this doesn't work, you can always press ctrl-y to get to the history and search from there.

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