One can perform this task better, faster, with more comfort by using an  extension or an external utility that provides this functionality. Currently you're basically abusing/misusing the omnibar. And, if you didn't disable prediction service in settings, all the text you paste gets leaked into your default search engine.

@woxxom, I've been unable to find an extension or external utility that works as well as the method I described above.

If hiding the omnibox dropdown window proves infeasible, maybe future development of Chrome might take into account my note-taking use of the omnibox and come up with some sort of accommodation or solution. If that's the case, perhaps this bug entry might serve as the starting point of discussion for that possibility.

This seems to be a feature request. Hence, marking it as untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!

I'm sympathetic to the fact that this is a cool and interesting way to use the omnibox for other than its intended purpose. :)

But we generally avoid adding options except in the most urgent cases. Every option adds code complexity and exponentially increases the set of possible configurations, increasing the risk of bugs and the amount of testing required.

Given that this request is based on a desire to use the omnibox for a purpose completely different than the one for which it's intended, I'm closing this issue. If anyone has further arguments to make as to how this would be useful to a large number of users, feel free to reopen.

Note that if the target you're pasting into is in Chrome, you can ctrl-shift-v to paste the plain, unformatted text of whatever you originally copied from.

Thanks for the ctrl_shift-v suggestion, but there are many instances where it is NOT possible to highlight what's displayed in the browser window with a mouse so as to copy it that way (e.g., viewing PDFs in Google Docs often will not let me highlight sections of the text so it can be copied out)--so I HAVE to type it out in the omnibox to get the information (and omnibox always plain texts what it written).

I don't want to make it seem like I'm hounding you guys by creating a whole new bug asking for a new feature of an omnibox-like box that sits on the URL-bar that can be used for copying notes like I've described, so I'll just ask it here: any chance you Chrome developers could consider adding a feature like this? I know from reading on reddit that I am not the only one that uses the omnibox in this note-taking way. Many, many firefox users use the search-box in Firefox for this very thing. If Chrome had a "search-like-box" in Chrome but that was intended for note-taking like I've described I know it would get used a lot by people.

If you do want me to (or it's okay to) make a new bug asking for this, please let me know. Thanks.

I don't think it makes sense to add this to Chrome when other note-taking apps, which can be placed in a small window over the Chrome window so it doesn't obscure the content you're copying, are perhaps the single most common, widespread, varied type of app available on desktop computers.  A solution we ship is going to have few advantages and many disadvantages compared to a separate app, and while the absolute number of people who might use it is nonzero, the percentage of the userbase is low, so the UI and code complexity and testing costs (not just to implement, but to maintain in the future against each new change that touches the same code) aren't justified.