That has always worked for me on Chrome. On the other hand, chrome lets me use the websites own search without setting up anything. For example:
you [tab] searches on youtube. news [tab] searches hn. I've never set it up and works with almost every site I've performed a search on.
Re:WebExtensions FAQ
by mcintyre1994 on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @05:51AM
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Does "new com webex" work for you in Chrome? It won't offer anything but a Google search for me. On Firefox it'll either offer to switch tab to here if it's still open or it'll find this in history.
I agree Chrome's site search thing is awesome, but how did you teach it to use the new HN one?
EDIT: Chrome settings -> manage search engines. Very impressed with the list of those it's stored automatically. Point stands that it doesn't seem to relearn though when one changes.
That works for me on Chrome. The misconception might be on your side ;-)
Just tried it in Chrome and it has the exact same behavior as FireFox.
Try to type
to test. On FF and PM this just works but on Chrome I still don't think it works.[0]: which might explain why not everyone is using the better browser :-P