It depends. What kinds of features were you thinking off? The obvious
one is to add search engine choices to the bar, but you can already do
this. Maybe a way to choose the engine on the fly would be good.
Outside of  that, I can't really think of any other uses for Omnibar
extension apis. What have you got in mind?

On Jan 8, 3:45 am, Erek Speed <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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