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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?

Peter Mortensen
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Naseer
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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.

Scott Schulthess
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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"

matpie
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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.)

Synetech
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