Hello, fellow Chromium users and devs. This is probably my biggest gripe with Chrome, and i can stand no longer...
History searches by URL from the Omnibar are awful! If you recall part of a URL, hardly ever does Omnibox return useful results. Suppose you have http://some-site.com/potentially/long/url/ The *only* way to get Chrome to dig up that url seems to be to start entering "some-site.com/p" etc. If you happen to recall any other part of the url, searches or suggestions will bring up nothing. This is very bad, especially considering how good Firfox is at this in comparison: it will start suggesting as you type any part of the url whatsoever. Chrome, on the other hand, seems to be tokenizing URLs on slashes (not sure about this, though). if you type "long/url" it will treat "long" as a hostname and completely give up on any suggestions. in other words - really, really bad experience searching parts of URLs. give me arbitrary substring searches! ok, maybe not arbitrary substring. if Chrome insists on tokenization, fine. but i should be able to find this history entry by typing e.g. "long url" or "potentially long". this doesn't happen at the moment. Can something be done about this? I am willing to spend some time and contribute code towards fixing this unless it'd be overly complex in the current architecture. Thanks. -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
