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What boggles my mind about Chrome is how terrible the location bar autocomplete is.

At least, that's how it seemed to me for ages when I switched from Firefox. I mean, I would have just visited a page with "foo" in the URL, and I would type "foo", and that recent page simply would not appear. But a page I visited two months ago with "foo" somewhere in the URL (or worse, somewhere in the page content) would appear.

I haven't noticed this so much recently -- maybe it's gotten better, or maybe I've just gotten used to it.

I've been shocked that I haven't heard many other people complaining about this. Maybe it's just me?

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No, you're right, it's absolutely dreadful.

The crazy part? Bookmark something, and then type the keywords that are in the title of the bookmarked page. The last time I used Chrome I could barely find anything unless I opened up all my bookmarks and searched that way.

It makes sense once you realize that Google makes a profit from having a shitty search function...

Chrome location bar autocomplete is unable to recognize my history and bookmarks.

Can it be that google does not want users to do bookmark or history search, but rather prefers us to do a google search instead for data mining and ad monetizing reasons? Or can it be due to an Apple patent?

My Chrome location bar autocompletes my bookmarks just fine. It usually only takes a few characters for the bookmark to be the top result, and I can tell it's the bookmark since I changed the label.

Chrome seems to want to give preference to any random page I visited once rather than my bookmark. And the list is so short - if it's not in the ~6 items you just can't get to it. And you can't just trim the list like you would in Firefox by hitting delete on entries you don't want to be in there.

I'd go back to firefox if their sync system was improved since I last used it.

I don't know when you last used it, and I don't use Firefox, but their sync system strikes me as pretty good. It even encrypts everything client-side using strong cryptography and you have to share the keys by opening another browser, I found it pretty great.

That's my biggest gripe with Chrome as well. When I first switched, it was painfully obvious, and now I'm (sadly) used to it..

There's a flag for a new algorithm in chrome://flags.

> What boggles my mind about Chrome is how terrible the location bar autocomplete is.

What boggles my mind about Chrome is how completely fucked up its cache behavior is, considering the number of people for whom it's the primary development browser.

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