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Better Titles for Visited URLs in the Omnibox Dropdown

Project Member Reported by mpear...@chromium.org, Mar 17 2017

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Google search does a good job of eliding titles.

For example, if you search for "gary danko tripadvisor", it displays the title
Restaurant Gary Danko, San Francisco - Fisherman's ... - TripAdvisor

Meanwhile, if I visit the page, and try to revisit using the omnibox, it uses the actual page title as source information
Restaurant Gary Danko, San Francisco - Fisherman’s Wharf - Menu, Prices & Restaurant Reviews - TripAdvisor
and then elides it (based on my screen width) simply from the end as
Restaurant Gary Danko, San Francisco - Fisher...

I would much rather see
Restaurant Gary Danko, San Fran... - TripAdvisor

(same length, more in the style of how Google search selects the title)


I'd hope we can do something similar in Chrome, i.e., smarter eliding than truncating.

 
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
NextAction: 2018-01-09
Seems hard, punting to re-evaluate next year.
The NextAction date has arrived: 2018-01-09
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Owner: tommycli@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Available)
Assigning to tommycli@ per discussion with Justin.

If we're possibly making titles more prominent in the dropdown (shown at left), it would be good to look into whether we can make these better titles.  For example, can we simply import / copy a strategy similar to what Google does?

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