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It's been two months since I've been using Chrome and now I found the first thing that really annoys me:
If type a word into the address bar I would except to make a search in the history for that particular word. Unfortunately, the search results usually don't include the page I was looking for.

For example, yesterday I've seen a clip on YouTube. Today I want to watch it again, and type the song name in the address bar. Google won't show me the link to the movie. I literally need to type "youtube SONGNAME" instead of "SONGNAME".

Another example is that in some of my domains, I've an image directory, like this: www.mydomain.com/images/house.jpg
www.mydomain.com/images/car.jpg

I'd except Chrome to suggest both Urls, but Google won't if I type in "www.mydomain.com/images". What the heck?

Is there some plugin that uses the input from the address bar, searches for the input in the history (meaning in the page title and the Url) and displays all results in the DropDownBox? That is the only feature I'm missing from firefox.

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  • Version?​​​​​​​
    – Synetech
    Mar 31, 2011 at 5:05
  • @Synetechinc.: 10.0.648.204
    – citronas
    Mar 31, 2011 at 7:41
  • I wonder if it doesn't show results that are synched from another device. For example, I visited a website on my phone today, and that shows up on my desktop's history page but not when I search for it in the address bar—but it does show an older article I visited on the very same website when I search for that. And my desktop's address-bar results started including the article I visited on my phone once I visited it on my desktop as well.
    – Patrick Brinich-Langlois
    Aug 8, 2020 at 21:18

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The address bar shows a mix of web results, see the little globe icon next to them, yes. For history its best ot hit Ctrl-H and search from there. Also see the Search section under the Basic Options page.

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Go to settings>advanced settings> privacy

then uncheck the option

Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar or the app launcher search box

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    I did not expect this to work, but it did. Apparently the suggestions from the prediction service will have higher priority than elements from the history when they are enabled. Disabling it allows history elements to make it onto the list.
    – Thorbear
    Jul 14, 2016 at 16:00
  • yes and you can use a search box separately :)
    – Abhigyan
    Jul 18, 2016 at 15:20
  • This should be the answer compared the "Google staff" answer by invert!!! I really was frustrated with this.. URLs that I visit everyday did not appear and I did not want to do CTRL+H - thanks for this!
    – TheBlackBenzKid
    May 2, 2018 at 9:08
  • In later versions of Chrome this is no longer an option.
    – Patrick Brinich-Langlois
    Aug 8, 2020 at 21:06

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