Firefox like address bar in Chrome

Question

Firefox's AwesomeBar searches history including the titles of pages incrementally. How can I get Chrome to also search the titles in the history?

For example, for this very page, in Firefox, I can search "Firefox Lik" and this page's address shows up in Firefox but not in Chrome.

Is there any Chrome extension that can do this?

What version of Chrome are you using? Are you using default settings so it will store your history? If I open up a new tab in Chrome and type *Firefox Lik* it will suggest this page (*Firefox Like address bar in Chrome - Super User*) because it is in my history. — Trey Hunner, May 06 '10 at 08:38
I am using the chrome 5 beta on Windows. Settings are default. — Naseer, May 06 '10 at 10:16
possible duplicate of [Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar](http://superuser.com/questions/120885/make-chromes-omnibar-behave-more-like-the-firefox-awesomebar) — Synetech, Feb 16 '12 at 04:00

Scott Schulthess · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-03T19:35:30.530

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Here's a plugin

Update: in my experience, chrome has gotten a lot better at this in the past year or so. Now it is as good as firefox for most use cases.

edited Jun 03 '13 at 19:35

answered Mar 23 '11 at 17:07

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Unfortunately that currently only searches bookmarks, not the history. – Synetech Mar 26 '11 at 13:19
This seems to be doing the job, along with sirlancelot's answer below. – Naseer Mar 27 '11 at 00:17

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '11 at 17:28

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Chrome 11 has a flag called "Enable better omnibox history matching", you can enable it by typing about:flags in the address bar and clicking "Enable"

answered Mar 23 '11 at 17:28

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I can’t find it. What version exactly? – Synetech Mar 26 '11 at 13:20
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It only searches history though - bookmarks are still not searched. The awesome bar in firefox is all that's holding me back to move to Chrome. – Naseer Mar 27 '11 at 00:14

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '11 at 22:34

I don’t know exactly what version is required, but newer version of Chrome do indeed include items from the history (at least recent history, though I haven’t tested the extent) in the suggestions for the Omnibox drop-down. The catch is that if you have a large history, it may take a few seconds for Chrome to retrieve them since it offers more immediate things first (like open tabs, MRU pages, MFU pages, etc.)

Firefox like address bar in Chrome

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