you can essentially do this (post a twitter message from the address bar) in Chrome or Firefox without installing anything if you just configure a custom search engine with the path http://twitter.com/home?status=%s

1. In Chrome, go to Options > Default Search engine > Manage > Add

2. Give it a name/keyword e.g. "tweet" and URL http://twitter.com/home?status=%s. Hit OK.

3. Now from the address bar, you can type: tweet [msg]

4. Forwards you to twitter. Although you still have to click a button on twitter, you could easily write your own serverside twitter API client that could post your tweet without the click.

Yes you can. It would not however poll for new mentions, and direct messages wich OmniTweet does.

Plus you have to wait for twitter.com to load which takes longer and longer.

OmniTweet is my current guilty pleasure project.

It looks like a perfect example of minimalist usability, and definitely not something you should feel guilty about. Aside from the rough edges, of course, like the fact that it's hard to install until Chrome makes some more progress on their extension API.

Thank you. :) It is mostly just a guilty pleasure project for when I don't want to do contract work.

Yes. The install process is horrendous. Starting Chrome with a terminal command gets irritating to say the least. Hopefully Google will roll some of the APIs into beta soon.

Thanks for testing out the omnibox API when it is still so difficult to use. We start out new APIs in experimental to get a feel for how they work before becoming stuck with them forever.

No problem :) I've had fun working with it.

Is the Chromium Extension Group the best place for me to provide feedback on the omnibox API?

The group is a good place. We read tweets and blog posts too, so that will eventually make its way back.

I don't suppose the Omni folks might complain about the name?

http://www.omnigroup.com/

Could be if OmniTweet ever gets popular enough.

For the record it is named after the Chrome feature omnibox not Omni Group: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.om...

Edit: I have also never been particularly happy with the name so will probably change it regardless.

I was thinking TweetBox but that name is taken several times over.

Maybe TheRealTweetBox? Hehe. I have a couple of ideas for new names rolling around my head.