Now that we’re on this topic: one of my least favorite incentive slopes is the fact that Chrome autocompletes URLs based on my bookmarks and history, meaning to get to e.g. Facebook I only have to type “cmd + t, f, enter.” Awhile ago I looked into disabling this feature and I couldn’t. Anyone know how to?
Go to chrome://settings/, click “Advanced” at the bottom, unselect “Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar” and maybe also “Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly”.
I had the first one unselected already but not the second. This doesn’t disable autocompleting based on history or bookmarks. I can clear history but that’s only a very temporary reset.
pressing shift+delete while you have a specific suggestion highlighted removes it from the list of suggestions, but I think that might also be only a temporary solution (although easier to implement than navigating to a settings tab).
Now that we’re on this topic: one of my least favorite incentive slopes is the fact that Chrome autocompletes URLs based on my bookmarks and history, meaning to get to e.g. Facebook I only have to type “cmd + t, f, enter.” Awhile ago I looked into disabling this feature and I couldn’t. Anyone know how to?
Firefox lets you to completely disable URL autocomplete with the browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled setting. Chrome doesn’t seem to allow this.
Go to chrome://settings/, click “Advanced” at the bottom, unselect “Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar” and maybe also “Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly”.
I had the first one unselected already but not the second. This doesn’t disable autocompleting based on history or bookmarks. I can clear history but that’s only a very temporary reset.
Schedule a script to nuke your history every X minutes?
pressing shift+delete while you have a specific suggestion highlighted removes it from the list of suggestions, but I think that might also be only a temporary solution (although easier to implement than navigating to a settings tab).