I believe this would be http://crbug.com/367

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
>

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