Tech Tip – Search Bookmarks And History Too From Google Chrome ‘Omnibox’

The combo of address bar and search box in Google Chrome has been further improved to allow you to search your history, tabs and bookmarks, as well as searching the Web.

Here is how to do it:

Note: To use this new feature, you need to be running Chrome 105 which was released in September 2022

• Open Google Chrome
• In the address bar, type chrome:flags and press enter
• When the page opens, type omnibox in the Search flags box
• From the list of flags, scroll down until you find "Omnibox Site Search Start" and from the drop down menu, select Enabled
• At the bottom of the screen you will be prompted "Your changes will take effect the next time you relaunch Chrome", close Chrome and restart it to enable the feature
• You can now use the following commands in the Omnibox:
  • @history - to search your browser history
  • @tabs - to search your browser tabs
  • @bookmarks - to search your browser bookmarks