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Message from discussion Proposal: extension API: activating extensions through Omnibox
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Aaron Boodman  
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 More options Feb 22 2010, 2:52 pm
From: Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:52:03 -0800
Local: Mon, Feb 22 2010 2:52 pm
Subject: Re: [chromium-dev] Proposal: extension API: activating extensions through Omnibox
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Munjal Doshi <mun...@chromium.org> wrote:

>> May be make the users type extension:galk ... (or something similar) to
>> trigger extension from an omnibox? Of course that makes the user type more,
>> but avoids problems Peter mentions.

> It avoids some issues, although it's still possible that a user wants to
> search Google for something about "extension:", so it doesn't mean it's safe
> for us to completely change over from the normal mechanism.  Forcing such a
> prefix is somewhat unfortunate in terms of UX, though.

What if you use <tab> to disambiguate entering extension mode from
doing a search. gtalk<tab>foo would search send "foo" to the gtalk
extension, gtalk<space>foo uses the normal omnibox providers. I think
this also eliminates the need for the "extension:" prefix.

- a


 
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