How can the Omnibar in Chrome be made to act like the AwesomeBar in Firefox? Specifically, Chrome doesn't seem to recall Google Docs from the history when I type some of the text from the doc's title (which isn't part of the url but only in the html title.)
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I use Chrome Canary. It matches page titles from history to some extent. Though that's not comparable to Firefox. I believe Chrome team is working on it.– userFeb 10, 2012 at 17:55
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just tried it - it also doesn't search by title of docs in the history...– GJ.Feb 11, 2012 at 14:15
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1possible duplicate of Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar– SynetechFeb 16, 2012 at 4:03
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Here is a option in chrome. Go to
about:flags
Set Aggressive history URL scoring to Enabled. Now Chrome should match title of the history to some extent (I am saying again it's not comparable to Firefox).
I don't think a complete change of behavior is possible at the moment, unfortunately. You can try the Fauxbar Lite extension, which can be triggered directly in the Omnibar by typing f <your query goes here>. It claims to use the AwesomeBar algorithm to search history, bookmarks, and open tabs, and it hasn't failed me so far after months of use!
Fauxbar will also add an icon to your toolbar; clicking it will bring up a page with an AwesomeBar clone. If you ever want to replace Chrome's New Tab page with the Fauxbar page, get the full extension instead.
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no, it doesn't search in google doc titles for me (at least on chrome 18 beta)– GJ.Mar 4, 2012 at 17:18
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You can make use of the Extension "Better History" from Roy Kolak, with which you can browse your history eifficiently, also it will include the results from your history in suggestion url's. Hope this helps.
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I dunno if you tried it, But its working for me.. opened a doc from google docs, and can see the link using title of document from history. Feb 10, 2012 at 16:32
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