Uh, I am not in favor of the last idea.The omnibox should be global, not specific. If you are in a certain page, even if it is an internal page, the omnibox should search whatever you want in your default search engine.
☆PhistucK On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:37, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > > I put back the search box for History because it's one of the features > of the original NTP people were asking for. > > I understand that the omnibox searches history too, but not > thoroughly, so it's not a replacement for the history search box. It > may only return a few history results intermingled with search, > bookmarks etc. > > I do think though, that it would be cool if the History and Download > pages could use the omnibox for search instead of a separate box. When > I go to the history page, the omnibox in that tab should search ONLY > history and the same with the downloads. Of course, you would have to > make it obvious that that's what's happening. > > On Aug 8, 6:34 am, Ferk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mm.. but why is there a need for a history searchbox there? > > isn't that what the omnibox is already supposed to be for? I want the > > omnibox selected by default when I open a new tab.. so for using the > > searchbox I would need to click there and there's already a link to > > "view full history" that leads to the actual history searchbox in the > > same number of clicks. > > > > We should teach the users to use the omnibox instead of adding yet > > another way of doing the same thing, it can confuse them and lead to > > misuse. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
