Open/tabopen should use the User's default search engine

[dakrone]

When using open or tabopen to search for something (instead of going to an address). Vrome should use whatever search engine is set as the default. (instead of using Google).

Example:
I hit "t" then type "foo" and Vrome will search google for "foo". However my default search engine is not google.

[StepLg]

and another comment. i have many shortcuts for different search engines (for example: g for google, wiki for wikipediq, йа for russian yandex search) - they all configured in chrome search engines options page.

but none of them work in tabopen feature. does chrome/chromium API for using such shortcuts not only from ctrl+t, but in tabopen too?

[jinzhu]

thanks for your suggestion. I'll add it to my todo list.

[wraithan]

I would like to point out (though with the search keyword likely comes this as well) that bookmark keywords also do not work from the open/tabopen.

[samirunni]

I would greatly appreciate it if keyword bookmarks worked from open/tabopen as well.

[humanplayer2]

As would I. I currently find Vrome better than Vimium, but it's a serious shame that keywords do not work in the box.

[jinzhu]

hi rendsvig, thank you like Vrome better. ;)
keywords do not work in which box? what does the keywords means? and box means. sorry, but I don't really understand you,can you give me more infromation? thanks.

[samirunni]

Keyword bookmarks are a way of opening popular sites from the address bar by entering just few characters. For example, I can set it so that if I type 'r' and hit enter, I'll be taken to the Reddit home page.

In Firefox, adding keyword bookmarks is pretty straightforward: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/how-to-set-up-firefox-keyword-bookmarks/ . But in Chrome, it's more complicated: http://lifehacker.com/5476033/how-to-set-keyword-bookmarks-in-google-chrome

Anyway, I use keyword bookmarks for all the sites I commonly visit. This problem could easily be solved if you could give an option in Vrome to just have 'o' do the same thing that ctrl+l does in Chrome by default (this would be nice anyway because it would also enable access to history/bookmark search).

[humanplayer2]

As srunni said. When I wrote "the box", I mean the small box that opens when you press "t", for example.

[jinzhu]

hi arunni,
thanks for your share. it's really useful.
but as I know, we can't do this due to the chrome extension api limitation.
I'll fix this issue as soon as chrome provide the API. thanks.

thanks for any thoughts.

[jinzhu]

you can customize your search engine now. plz checkout here: http://wiki.github.com/jinzhu/vrome/vromerc-example-file

I am sorry you need to config it in ~/.vromerc, but I think chrome doesn't provide an API to get your default search engine.

thanks.