Improve URL history search: Match on substrings in the 'middle' not just at the start

[ggm]

Currently, URL hints appear to walk the tree for start- matches. so, whatever you type is searched as a prefix and it matches the search space of all the possible suffix extensions beyond this point which could match, I believe sorted by recency/frequency.

Say I have www.reddit.com/r/ScotLand/new

and I want to find r/Europe/new

I have to wipe out ALL of .../ScotLand/new to begin to match Europe/new.

I should be able to replace the "word" /Scotland/ with /Europe/ and have it do string-match on the LHS of my type point, finding the matches which extend to cover the RHS

[Jon]

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