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Orthogonal: I want Chrome to have fuzzy searching for history and bookmarks, like Firefox does. As it is, if I don't either type in the first part of a website's actual URL or some unpredictable magic string into the omnibox, I just get search suggestions instead of useful autocompletes from my history. In Firefox it works perfectly.

I really don't want that to happen, because I have, um, embarrassing things bookmarked. Typing things into the url bar with other people around is already somewhat of a risk.

The 'chromium' plugin has some fuzzy tab searching. From any page, tap `b` and type in a substring of a page title to match. It's quite nice.

I always liked the model of browser tabs as buffers rather than tabs. It reminds me of the philosophy difference between vim and emacs: since accessing a certain tab is O(N), Vim gets unwieldy if I have more tabs open than I have horizontal screen space. On the other hand, I have more than 500 Emacs buffers open and never have to worry when I switch between them. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use Chrome that way too!

Just FYI Vim is buffer-based too [1], windows (tabs) are a layer on top. There's also a nice plugin called fzf [2] for fuzzy searching open buffers or tabs.

[1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching

[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website."

Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?

open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab

continue button appears bottom left

That worked, but when I restarted chrome, it was automatically disabled: https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png

The button to enable it on the extensions page is greyed out with a warning.

Are you in developer mode? If not, enable "Developer mode" and try again. It's at the top of the chrome://extensions/ tab.

I am in developer mode. It still doesn't let me use third party extensions. Here's a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/d5y8icz.png?1

Doing some more research, it looks like Chrome started doing this awhile ago to prevent malware, supposedly. You can now only get extensions through the Chrome web store.

Hmm. I'm not sure what is wrong. I don't have a Google store developer account, otherwise I would have published it there.

Try this as a workaround:

  - clone the repo
  - go to chrome://extensions/
  - enable "Developer mode"
  - Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the cloned directory

The advantage of this method is that you will be able to upgrade the extension in the future with a git-pull!

This may only be an issue on windows. I will try your method, but I think extensions installed this way are also automatically disabled on restart.

I'm not asking you to publish it on the store just for me. I think the store is bullshit. They charge money from publishers, let in tons of malware, have automatic updates, and don't let people inspect the source.

Heh, I made one of these a while back :)

https://github.com/benvan/mercury

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