Why would you not create the solution by yourself? ☆PhistucK
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 16:48, rojer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 5:17 am, Chen Yong <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe this would behttp://crbug.com/367 > > sort of. although i don't know what machine learning has to with this, > at all. > give me substring search, that's all i really want. > > ok, i voted for that bug. but no solution in sight, it seems... > > > > > 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 havehttp://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
