Omnibox on Google Chrome for Mac

Engineer Ben Goodger shows off the combined search and address bar, the Omnibox, on Google Chrome for Mac.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Google
• Chrome
• Omnibox
• mac

[matthewtoldme]

He's using Chrome for Mac on a PC.

[dovella]

Hackintosh

[onewhobeasts]

@MGuniverse nooo this is totally real... go download it...

[MGuniverse]

LOL fake and gay.

[TheHaiiiJuan]

In google chrome, I can search for biscuits just by searching biscuits in the omnibox. Now, there are biscuits on their way to my house, and I am going to eat those biscuits.

In google chrome, I can search for obesity related heart attacks just by searching...

[BigTysHouseOfRants]

you can tell this guy gets laid often *Wink*

[ulybaZZa]

Firefox is not quite the same, but yep, they did it first, Google just made it more convenient (but there are some privacy implications in the google way).

[saylorboy]

Um... when I typed the searches he gave into the "address/URL box" in firefox, it took me to the exact pages he is referring to. So really Firefox DOES this already!

[PenguinCorrosive]

lol what an amazing feature!!  if only other browsers could do something like this....

[biffbiffcapcap]

seriously i wanna know why this would be something i would want....

[biffbiffcapcap]

my mac has a google bar right next to my address bar??

and as for the tabs, my mac already has that?? and it's already fast, stable, secure, and pretty much everything that google chrome 'offers'.... so what's the point?