I was brainstorming about how different features fit into the chrome model and one thing I thought about was the custom search bars you get in many firefox extensions. It seems to me that the best way for features like that to be integrated into chrome is through the omnibar. It has a pretty ambitious name after all.
It seems like direct control over the omnibar would be tricky due to the browser native features that interact with it already. An alternative would be to allow extensions to add a "search feature" to the omnibar which in most cases would run a script in the background page (or content script if that makes more sense.) I don't know specifically, but I feel this could easily fit into the current API users already have for customizing the omnibar. Let me know what you think (or if there are ways to do this already that I missed.)
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