Make Chrome's address bar more like Firefox's Awesome Bar

I love Chrome—and Safari—because it's fast and uses WebKit. The only thing I hate about Chrome is looking up documentation. For instance, in Firefox 3+, if I type "prototype up" in the address bar, I am instantly sent to Prototype's documentation for the Element.up method. If I do this in Chrome, I have to actually click on the google search result to accomplish this.

Here's how you can set up your Chrome address bar to work more like Firefox's "Awesome Bar".

  1. Go into your Chrome preferences
  2. Under the "Basics" tab, click on the "Manage" button next to "Default search:"
  3. Hit the "+" button and name your new search whatever you'd like (I chose "Google Lucky"). Use anything you want for the "Keyword" field as well.
  4. Under "URL", paste this in: {google:baseURL}search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=%s
  5. Click "OK" and exit your Chrome preferences

Now, when you enter something into your address bar, and Google has a good guess for what you are looking for, it will automatically take you there!