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This extension have very little text, so it should be easy to set it up to display Japanese. (Because there's little text, the benefit of translation is minimal, but hopefully it would become a nice touch.)

Using the extension creates lots of invalid history entries. As an accelerator, there's no need to show past shortcut invocations, so these history entries should be removed.

The history API can be used for cleanup (see StackOverflow for an example).

Chromium issue has been logged: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=262598

Extra results:

Internal error:

As an easy way to run unit tests during development, trigger them every time the extension is installed or updated. There's a chance that this could also be helpful for debugging user problems.

After selecting a bookmark, it takes a second or two before the page appears. During this interval, it's disconcerting that the URL is not shown in the omnibar. The only indication of something happening is the favicon spinning, and a status message at the bottom of the window.

Original behaviour:

Current results are just sorted by the user's "physical" bookmark hierarchy. To give more relevant results higher priority, give precedence to results that use few gaps. (Gaps between query letters will still be allowed.)

Once implemented, double check that the new behaviour seems like an improvement.

Seeing that query term results can overlap (due to gaps in matching) is probably confusing, and it makes the search algorithm quite complex. On the other hand, this feature may be rather useful: further investigation is required.

Maybe enforce a strict ordering between the query terms and the bookmark name/path. Also maybe allow space gaps within a single query term (eg. allow scos to match Schneier on Security).

Original allowed overlapping:

Although the JavaScript code may run, there may be bugs lurking in the shadows. Run a linter, and fix up the style errors.

Instead of showing a row for the default action, then showing all of the search results, move the first row of the search results up as the default action. This will save a bit of space and it should look cleaner.

Original results:

One bookmark may appear in both the bookmarks bar and in the standard bookmark tree. When this happens, make sure that the search doesn't return it twice. (Note that different folder structures will allow the "identical" bookmarks to match different queries.)

When the user query can match at multiple places in a bookmark name, currently the last match is highlighted. For clarity, it should be the first match instead.

Original highlighting:

Some bookmark URLs may be long enough to force the folder information out of view. There are a few ways to possibly trim URLs:

• Remove HTTP or HTTPS protocol information
• Remove www sub-domain information
• Remove obscure URL parameters (eg. ?GetLogon?curl=Z2F&reason=0)
• Remove / path segments as long as the resulting URL does not cause confusion with other (non-identical) URLs

Example: