You can start by filing a issue at crbug.com. See if it does not get a "WontFix" or any rejections here. If they say they are willing to accept patches for this, you can start working on it.
Reply with the issue URL here. ☆PhistucK On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 22:16, Rojer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
