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+== Addressbar searching optimization  ==
+In conjunction with the current feature of typing into the addressbar to search through history and bookmarks, also allow users to enter regex expressions to display more specific results that are more specified to what the user wants.
+For example, what if I want to search for something like this. photo.com/myusername/1.png, 2.png etc. Lets say I have 200 photos, and I'm not sure where a particular photo is, so I would like to just display the last 10 I uploaded. I could use a regex.
+My example isn't really that good, but I know some people could find a use a feature like this.
+Some ways to implement it could be like this.
+You can't just right off the hand start using regex in the addressbar, because this would conflict with the regular slightly simpler feature of just typing in key words to search for history, so what we need is a way to specify that we are using a regex to search for history and bookmarks. This could be done with a specific keyword that won't possibly appear in a regular history search, so ::, //, and similar things are already out.
+I suppose a way could be to specify it with maybe regex://, but this probably isn't such a good solution as that would look like a URL protocol. Any ideas are welcome.
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