url - Make Google Chrome's address bar prefer page titles to domain names when offering completions?
2013-08
Ryan Thompson
I've recently switched from Firefox to Chrome, and the thing I miss most from Firefox is the "Awesome Bar" that suggests completions for what I type primarily based on page titles, and then secondarily based on domain names.
Chrome offers both matching URLs and titles, just like like Firefox, but Chrome seems to always prefer a matching domain name over a matching page title or a match to another part of the URL (besides the domain), no matter how many times I pass over the former for the latter.
In fact, Chrome also prefers to suggest a search rather than matching anything other than a domain name.
So is there any hidden preference I can change to tell Chrome that I care more about page titles than domain names?
Example: I want to go to Google Reader, so I press Control+L and begin typing "reader". The URL for google reader is http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview-page, so the domain name is www.google.com, which does not contain the word "reader". So the first option that Chrome suggests is either another site that has "reader" as part of the domain, or a search for "reader" with the default search engine. No matter how many times I scroll down and select Google Reader, Chrome never "learns" that that's what I want.
Davis Gallinghouse
There's no explicit way to do this in Chrome. At some point I did notice a menu in about:flags that allowed you to configure the behavior of instant (if you use instant from your omnibar) to act a little differently, but that seems to have gone away in more recent updates (I use the developer release on OS X).
Tom Wijsman
Guess your best bet is to try their discussion forums or get someone to change the source code.
There is no configuration setting or extension that has access to what you are trying to do...
ino
The "Next" google reader bookmarklet is a bookmark button you put in your bookmark bar, and when you click on it, it redirects you to the next unread item in you google reader list, but not in google reader. It shows you the original page.(If you go to Google Reader settings > goodies, you'll find it.)
My problem:
When using the next bookmarklet for many times in a row, sometimes with 2-3 seconds of interval to skip uninteresting stuff, sometimes I want to go back to the previous, and when I click the browser back button, it often skips some 2-5 pages and goes to a very previous one, and not the one I was expecting.
If I use the backspace instead of the back icon, it skips it aswell, and if I right-click the back icon, it doesn't show the history for the one I was looking for.
It happens on normal, beta and dev versions of chrome.
In Firefox it does not skip.
scraimer
This has always been a problem with AJAX-based sites. Search for "Breaking the BACK button" in google, and you'll find many articles. The problem is that AJAX queries don't get added to the browser's history, so the "BACK" button doesn't even see them.
Many Google products try to "fix" this by doing navigation in hidden IFRAMEs, sometimes in combination with anchor-names in the URLs (although the anchor names are really for bookmarks, and not for this, since they don't usually get saved into the browser's history.)
Ivo Flipse
Are you using the browser back button? Because if you want to go back up, just use the Google Reader shortcuts:
- j/k = item down/up = selects the next/previous item in the list
- space/shift-space = page down/up = moves the page down/up
- n/p = scan down/up = in list view, selects the next item without opening it
- o = open/close item = in list view, expands or collapses the selected item
- enter = open/close item = in list view, expands or collapses the selected item
- s = toggle star = stars the selected item
- shift-s = toggle share = shares the selected item
- m = mark as read/unread = switches the read state of the selected item
- t = tag an item = opens the tagging field for the selected item
- v = view original = opens the original source for this article in a new window
- shift-a = mark all as read = marks all items in the current view as read
- 1 = expanded view = displays the subscription as expanded items
- 2 = list view = displays the subscription as a list of headlines
- r = refresh = refreshes the unread counts in the navigation
- shift-n/p = navigation down/up = selects the next/previous subscription or folder in the navigation
- shift-x = navigation expand/collapse = expand or collapse a folder selected in the navigation
- shift-o = navigation open subscription = opens the item currently selected in the navigation
- gh = go to home = goes to the Google Reader homepage
- ga = go to all items = goes to the "All items" view
- gs = go to starred items = goes to the "Starred items" view
- gt = go to tag = allows you to navigate to a tag by entering the tag name
- gu = go to subscription = allows you to navigate to a subscription by entering the subscription name
- u = toggle full screen mode = hides and shows the list of subscriptions
- ? = keyboard shortcuts help = displays a quick guide to all of Reader's shortcuts
Richard Gadsden
Google recently put an interstitial page into the Next button which fixes the back button.