Let the user choose the keyword for my omnibox chrome extension

Question

I just created a chrome extension using the omnibox api.

"omnibox": { "keyword" : "a" },

I found out that it is not possible to use multible keywords or let the user choose a keyword for my extension although the extension is listed on the search engines settings page:

I addition to that the priority of the extension keyword is by far the lowest. If a User already defined a keyword in the Default search engines / Other search engines - sections the extension keyword is not usable.

Does anyone know a solution for at least one of these issues?

Maybe by using the NPAPI?

Answer 1

This discussion has come up before and you can see an example of it here - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=75890.

It seems that the reason there is only one title:keyword pair is to prevent an over abundance of key words. There also does not appear to be any support that would allow for the end user to change this pair.