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Instant Suggestions x15 (for Chrome)

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Re: Instant Suggestions x15 (for Chrome)

#6

Post by wccrawford »

It seems that I can type just a bit quicker than it expects. I typed 'ana' and came up with a lot of 'a' results. Erase and type slowly and I get the 'ana' results that I expected.

I reloaded and tried again and this time came up with 'an' results.

Re: Instant Suggestions x15 (for Chrome)

#7

Post by joepestro »

wccrawford wrote: post #6

It seems that I can type just a bit quicker than it expects. I typed 'ana' and came up with a lot of 'a' results. Erase and type slowly and I get the 'ana' results that I expected. I reloaded and tried again and this time came up with 'an' results.

Whoops! I hacked this together this weekend, there might be a few bugs. Thanks for letting me know though.

Re: Instant Suggestions x15 (for Chrome)

#8

Post by Groxx »

Impressive, and I like the speed. Not sure suggestions are my cup-o-tea, though this seems it could be handy if I used them more heavily. And you should probably watch the tab order / arrow keys, sometimes it seems to get lost, and can "select" entries which are not visible. I'd probably capture the tab key in JS and control it manually, otherwise my settings let tab go to every link + form item.

I'd probably get more use from something like this which searches my history + bookmarks + delicious + instapaper + etc, and does a normal search on those. Otherwise, currently, I type in "xcode" and get 3 from my bookmarks (missing my "xcode plugin" bookmark, among others), and none from my history, despite having 19 xcode hits in my history.

Re: Instant Suggestions x15 (for Chrome)

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Post by aed »

Groxx wrote: post #8

Impressive, and I like the speed. Not sure suggestions are my cup-o-tea, though this seems it could be handy if I used them more heavily. And you should probably watch the tab order / arrow keys, sometimes it seems to get lost, and can "select" entries which are not visible. I'd probably capture the tab key in JS and control it manually, otherwise my settings let tab go to every link + form item. I'd probably get mor…

I agree. Probably 50% or so of the time I'm looking for something I've looked at before... either in my history or my "archive" that is spread across multiple sites.
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