Lack of interest Chrome Tab to Search on address bar feature

[Andy.N]

When you type in youtube.com on your Chrome address bar, you can press tab and it will allow you to search videos on youtube.com

It would be nice if xenforo allow this so that any xenforo-powered site can use this feature

http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search

 

[Jeremy]

This would be neat, but it doesn't look like it will work with XenForo very well:

For 1 and 2 Chromium only adds sites that the user navigated to without a path. For example http://mysite.com, but not http://mysite.com/foo.

If you use full-friendly URLs, you get a path regardless, and anyone with searching under the root directory (ie this community), it seems like Chromium will ignore it.

 

[Andy.N]

Yes, it seems like using it will result in mysite.com/?s=andy while xf default search will lead to mysite.com/search/1540259/?q=andy&o=date

 

[Jeremy]

I mean, I guess XenForo could provide (or someone could write) an add-on that adds a searching script where it just takes the input from Chrome and redirects the users to the proper search, which in turn does the search. But that is slightly hackish.

I think Chrome needs to lighten the restrictions here slightly before its viable for a widespread implementation in the default software. Such a redirect hack shouldn't be necessary.

 

[Paul B]

Developing a feature which only works in one browser seems an unusual thing to do.

 

[Jeremy]

Developing a feature which only works in one browser seems an unusual thing to do.

Normally I would agree, but reading the docs seems like it's just adding some XML and giving Chrome the link.

 

[SheepCow]

Most of the popular browsers support OpenSearch (IE, Firefox, Chrome definitely do)