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Message from discussion Proposal: extension API: activating extensions through Omnibox
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Peter Kasting  
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 More options Feb 22 2010, 2:31 pm
From: Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:31:49 -0800
Local: Mon, Feb 22 2010 2:31 pm
Subject: Re: [chromium-dev] Proposal: extension API: activating extensions through Omnibox
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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.

PK


 
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