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Increase the Suggestion Count on Chrome’s Omnibox

By Adam Myers ⋅ September 10, 2008 ⋅ Tags: Google Chrome

As I’ve written about before, Google Chrome is the latest browser to enter browser supremacy rule. The light-weight browser is built for sheer speed, with a minimal GUI and a super-charged Javascript engine that goes along way in enhancing cloud computing. Similar to Firefox’s own Awesome Bar, which I’ve wrote on previously, Chrome introduces the Omnibox – the multi-faceted URL and Search bar across the top of each browser tab. Begin to type a word or phrase and the Omnibox will search your bookmarks and browser history, display all results as you type. And just like the Awesome Bar, I found the limited result set of 5 entries insufficient. Thankfully, though lacking in many customizations, Google Chrome can be adjusted here.

1. Locate the Google Chrome Shortcut from your Start Menu.
2. Right-click and select Properties.
3. Now append the command line parameter -omnibox-popup-count=12 at the end of the Target Path field.



4. OK out of the popup and now the next time Chrome is launched from the shortcut your Omnibox will return a larger results set.