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I simply want to search through the bookmarks in Google Chrome as I type in the address bar. I don't want to have to type the full URL just to hit a site already stored in my bookmarks.

Google Chrome doesn't seem to catch the bookmark entries and I usually have to type a full URL if I know it.

Is there any way to turn it on to search through the bookmarks or an extension that can do this?

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No bloated extensions necessary. Simply add a new Search engine in Chrome options:

Chrome Settings > Basic > Search > Manage Search Engines

  • Search Engine Name: Chrome Bookmarks
  • Keyword: b
  • URL: chrome://bookmarks/?#q=%s

That will allow you to easily search your bookmarks by simply pressing b then a SPACE.

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I found this already available in my search engine in recent versions of Chrome. Just type "b " (b-space) to invoke it and type the query you would like to search. – rynmrtn Apr 5 '12 at 14:38
    
If you also use Firefox a lot you could make the keyword '*' so that you can use the same keystrokes in both Firefox and Chrome. – Sam Hasler Jan 17 '13 at 12:46
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A footnote to the most common answer: The omnibox now searches bookmarks by default. See my answer for a tad more details. – Chris May 1 '13 at 18:40
    
@Jakebud that's great.. how can i just search for my bookmark folders? – abbood Sep 15 '13 at 5:52
    
Cool, this is great. – Punit Soni Nov 10 '13 at 21:13

Go to Tools -> Options -> Basic -> Default Search Manage -> Add...

You can use:

Name: Chrome History (or whatever you want)
Keyword: h
URL: chrome://history/#q=%s&p=0

Now if you want to search for superuser in your history just type "h superuser" into your addressbar. You can use whatever keyword you'd like when you create the link, "h" is just an example. I use this quick search for everything... a-amazon, i-imdb, e-ebay, g-I'm feeling Lucky Google search... You can even be more specific with it, like I use "ipeople" to do a people search on IMDB instead of a regular IMDB search. Just make sure you don't use a keyword you might normally want to search for... I use mostly single letter keywords.

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I'd like to have it auto complete the URL from the bookmark, just as it does with Safari. (Say, you have superuser.com bookmarked and as soon as I start typing 'sup' in the address bar, it will show candidate bookmarks below the bar including 'sup' and auto completes them as I type more specifically. – h1d Jul 7 '10 at 13:31
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This seems to search the history, not bookmarks? – Zoredache Feb 1 '11 at 23:50
    
The OP wants to search bookmarks, he doesn't want to search in the history... – Sk8erPeter May 6 '13 at 22:09

The solution is the Fauxbar Extension, which brings Firefox-navbar behavior to chrome/chromium:

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This must have been a common feature request, because at least as of Chrome 26, the omnibar does automatically search both bookmarks and search history in addition to the normal integration with Google search. Bookmark matches are marked with a star in the predictive search dropdown.

For what it's worth (not much) see Google's omnibox documentation.

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The Bookmark Search extension should meet your needs.

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Just to clarify, I actually wrote this extension. It is not bloated and source code available at GitHub, with a simple permissive license.

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Works great, I recommend this better than the custom search query solution. In the other solution the first result is just "search bookmarks" which always requires another arrow-down keystroke. – Arad Dec 17 '14 at 15:18

You can search through your bookmarks by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-B. Unfortunately Chrome omnibar is not as efficient as Firefox awesomebar.

Note that there is an issue opened to make Chrome omnibar as "intelligent" as Firefox awesomebar, making it remember the most used keys with associated selected websites (example: if you constantly type "b" in Firefox awesomebar and selects Facebook from it, it would make Facebook be the first shown website when you press "b"). The issue can be viewed here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=367, but as today it is not resolved.

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CTRL-SHIFT-B in current Chrome appears to hide or unhide bookmark bar, not search bookmarks! – LeBleu Jun 27 '12 at 21:01

Press [Ctrl]-[E] and start typing the name of the bookmark. As the match from your Bookmarks is found it will be listed as second item, below the Google Search entry. You can go to that item by pressing [Arrow-Down] and then [Enter].

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I created plugin for Chrome to access bookmarks "programmatic way". It was inspired by Intellij IDEA ctrl+shift+n dialog way to access files. I hope you'll like it!)

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