I propose exposing a simple messaging-based API that allows other extensions to
query Fauxbar's suggestion engine. This would allow other UI-altering
extensions (e.g. Vimium) to effectively replace the omnibox without needing to
reimplement all the fancy search and ranking logic already present within
Fauxbar.
I have implemented this functionality and am using it happily in my own
browser. In short, I simply split the function that provides suggestions to the
omnibox into two parts: one that returns a list of "suggestion" objects with
the raw data, and one that decorates these results with tags like <match>
before passing them to the omnibox callback. The API then is just a connection
listener that collections raw suggestions corresponding to a query and sends
them back to the requesting extension.
The changes I made are available in my Github repo:
https://github.com/drewfrank/Fauxbar-API/tree/api .
Original issue reported on code.google.com by drewfr...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2012 at 4:40
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
drewfr...@gmail.comon 6 Jul 2012 at 4:40