# Chrome quick-search for SharePoint > Chrome’s “tab to search” lets you search a site from the address bar, and it’s easy to set up for SharePoint with an OpenSearch description file. Source: https://ali.id.au/blog/chrome-quick-search-for-sharepoint/ (last edited 2026-10-16) One of my favorite features of Google Chrome is “tab to search”: a feature that offers you the ability to search a site before even going to its home page: [![keyword](keyword-781910.png)](https://web.archive.org/web/20130914195626/http://get-spblog.com/2012/12/12/advanced-user-affordances-quick-search-for-google-chrome/keyword/) For an example of this, you can check out [http://tomshardware.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20121212181235/http://tomshardware.com/ "Tom's Hardware") This feature is extremely easy to implement in SharePoint! 1. Create an XML “OpenSearchDescription” file, and store it in the style library. 2. Write a link to the XML definition file in your master page. **Update:** It should probably be noted that there is a broken feature in the SharePoint 2010 basic search center which attempts & fails to inject a similar open search description using a file called `/_layouts/srchconnectorgenerator.aspx`. I’ve not seen this actually work (it throws up a correlation ID which I haven’t the time to investigate), and it doesn’t provide a link on the root site, so it’s unlikely to be picked up by Chrome. Should also note that this affects a similar (but less used and less useful) option in Firefox, and versions of IE _below_ IE9: [![Y5D5c.jpg](y5d5c-jpg-e3d52d.png)](http://get-spblog.com/2012/12/12/advanced-user-affordances-quick-search-for-google-chrome/y5d5c-jpg/) **Related ideas:** * [_“Pin to Start”_ metadata for IE](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/ie/gg491731\(v=vs.85\).aspx) * [Configuring _“Apple Touch Icon”_](https://web.archive.org/web/20121213001925/http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html)