How can I disable Chrome's address bar search autocomplete?

Chrome's autcomplete for searches is often very annoying and intrusive because it is op-out. It autocompletes by default and you have to push backspace to dismiss it. Google search suggestions are welcome but sometimes I just want to type what I want.

There's an option for "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" but this disables suggestions also. Is there any way to disable autocomplete without losing suggestions?

edited Mar 7 '13 at 21:11

asked Mar 7 '13 at 20:22

Brian Ortiz

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I'm presuming the question is that in the title, it is unclear from reading your question. You seem to be saying, "I want to eliminate suggestions, but at the same time I don't."

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 20:58

I edited it to hopefully be more clear.

– Brian Ortiz
Mar 7 '13 at 21:12

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I don't think Google differentiates between autocomplete and suggestions with search - it's all or nothing. Are you possibly referring to autofill (completing forms)?

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:18

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I even checked about:flags and there was nothing that lets you control one without affecting enabling/disabling the other

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:36

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Major bummer.... Suggestions are extremely useful but autocomplete is extremely annoying.

– jahroy
Jul 5 '13 at 18:41

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edited Mar 7 '13 at 21:11

asked Mar 7 '13 at 20:22

Brian Ortiz

3541412

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I'm presuming the question is that in the title, it is unclear from reading your question. You seem to be saying, "I want to eliminate suggestions, but at the same time I don't."

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 20:58

I edited it to hopefully be more clear.

– Brian Ortiz
Mar 7 '13 at 21:12

1

I don't think Google differentiates between autocomplete and suggestions with search - it's all or nothing. Are you possibly referring to autofill (completing forms)?

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:18

1

I even checked about:flags and there was nothing that lets you control one without affecting enabling/disabling the other

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:36

6

Major bummer.... Suggestions are extremely useful but autocomplete is extremely annoying.

– jahroy
Jul 5 '13 at 18:41

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Brian Ortiz

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asked Mar 7 '13 at 20:22

Brian Ortiz

3541412

asked Mar 7 '13 at 20:22

Brian Ortiz

3541412

1

I'm presuming the question is that in the title, it is unclear from reading your question. You seem to be saying, "I want to eliminate suggestions, but at the same time I don't."

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 20:58

I edited it to hopefully be more clear.

– Brian Ortiz
Mar 7 '13 at 21:12

1

I don't think Google differentiates between autocomplete and suggestions with search - it's all or nothing. Are you possibly referring to autofill (completing forms)?

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:18

1

I even checked about:flags and there was nothing that lets you control one without affecting enabling/disabling the other

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:36

6

Major bummer.... Suggestions are extremely useful but autocomplete is extremely annoying.

– jahroy
Jul 5 '13 at 18:41

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show 2 more comments

1

I'm presuming the question is that in the title, it is unclear from reading your question. You seem to be saying, "I want to eliminate suggestions, but at the same time I don't."

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 20:58

I edited it to hopefully be more clear.

– Brian Ortiz
Mar 7 '13 at 21:12

1

I don't think Google differentiates between autocomplete and suggestions with search - it's all or nothing. Are you possibly referring to autofill (completing forms)?

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:18

1

I even checked about:flags and there was nothing that lets you control one without affecting enabling/disabling the other

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:36

6

Major bummer.... Suggestions are extremely useful but autocomplete is extremely annoying.

– jahroy
Jul 5 '13 at 18:41

I'm presuming the question is that in the title, it is unclear from reading your question. You seem to be saying, "I want to eliminate suggestions, but at the same time I don't."

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 20:58

I edited it to hopefully be more clear.

– Brian Ortiz
Mar 7 '13 at 21:12

I don't think Google differentiates between autocomplete and suggestions with search - it's all or nothing. Are you possibly referring to autofill (completing forms)?

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:18

I even checked about:flags and there was nothing that lets you control one without affecting enabling/disabling the other

– Dan
Mar 7 '13 at 21:36

Major bummer.... Suggestions are extremely useful but autocomplete is extremely annoying.

– jahroy
Jul 5 '13 at 18:41

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It can never be fully disabled, unfortunately. You can clear your browser history (including all new history being cleared on session exit every time) and follow the below steps to get close to the desired results.

Go to the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar
1. Click Settings
2. Click Show advanced settings (on the bottom)
3. In the Privacy section, deselect the "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" checkbox

Keep in mind that the address bar shows matches from your browsing history, in addition to predictions. If you don't want to see matches from your browsing history, you must clear that as well.

Beyond that there is nothing more you can do. It is either all or nothing. You cannot modify the behavior of how you dismiss suggestions. Suggestions and autocomplete are the same service.

edited Jan 30 at 16:52

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

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See support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656. I was interested in removing matches from my browsing history as well. To do that, you need to clear your browsing history. I'm also interested in preventing browsing history from being kept so that I don't have to keep doing this. It seems the only way to do that is to use Incognito ("If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can switch to Incognito mode." - support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589)

– Adam Zerner
Mar 1 '17 at 7:02

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From the original post, he wanted to keep suggestions, but remove the auto-added highlighted part.

– NessDan
Oct 19 '17 at 15:43

@NessDan yep - hence my last paragraph explaining google won't let us have our cake and eat it, too. It's all or nothing

– Dan
Oct 19 '17 at 16:28

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this answer is wrong superuser.com/a/543412

– Steven Penny
Dec 16 '17 at 19:50

Wrong: this disables google's autocompletion based on other user's searches, but keeps showing my own searches in autocompletion. I want precisely the opposite: I don't want it to keep track of my search queries (which is intrusive in my opinion, I'm not searching for porn or anything in public mode, but I still don't want my colleagues to see the history of my search queries and topics that interest me), but want to keep autocompletion based on popular queries.

– Boris Burkov
Jan 30 at 11:52

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Go to the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar
1. Click Settings
2. Click Show advanced settings (on the bottom)
3. In the Privacy section, deselect the "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" checkbox

Keep in mind that the address bar shows matches from your browsing history, in addition to predictions. If you don't want to see matches from your browsing history, you must clear that as well.

Beyond that there is nothing more you can do. It is either all or nothing. You cannot modify the behavior of how you dismiss suggestions. Suggestions and autocomplete are the same service.

edited Jan 30 at 16:52

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

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See support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656. I was interested in removing matches from my browsing history as well. To do that, you need to clear your browsing history. I'm also interested in preventing browsing history from being kept so that I don't have to keep doing this. It seems the only way to do that is to use Incognito ("If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can switch to Incognito mode." - support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589)

– Adam Zerner
Mar 1 '17 at 7:02

1

From the original post, he wanted to keep suggestions, but remove the auto-added highlighted part.

– NessDan
Oct 19 '17 at 15:43

@NessDan yep - hence my last paragraph explaining google won't let us have our cake and eat it, too. It's all or nothing

– Dan
Oct 19 '17 at 16:28

1

this answer is wrong superuser.com/a/543412

– Steven Penny
Dec 16 '17 at 19:50

Wrong: this disables google's autocompletion based on other user's searches, but keeps showing my own searches in autocompletion. I want precisely the opposite: I don't want it to keep track of my search queries (which is intrusive in my opinion, I'm not searching for porn or anything in public mode, but I still don't want my colleagues to see the history of my search queries and topics that interest me), but want to keep autocompletion based on popular queries.

– Boris Burkov
Jan 30 at 11:52

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Go to the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar
1. Click Settings
2. Click Show advanced settings (on the bottom)
3. In the Privacy section, deselect the "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" checkbox

Keep in mind that the address bar shows matches from your browsing history, in addition to predictions. If you don't want to see matches from your browsing history, you must clear that as well.

Beyond that there is nothing more you can do. It is either all or nothing. You cannot modify the behavior of how you dismiss suggestions. Suggestions and autocomplete are the same service.

edited Jan 30 at 16:52

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

1

See support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656. I was interested in removing matches from my browsing history as well. To do that, you need to clear your browsing history. I'm also interested in preventing browsing history from being kept so that I don't have to keep doing this. It seems the only way to do that is to use Incognito ("If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can switch to Incognito mode." - support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589)

– Adam Zerner
Mar 1 '17 at 7:02

1

From the original post, he wanted to keep suggestions, but remove the auto-added highlighted part.

– NessDan
Oct 19 '17 at 15:43

@NessDan yep - hence my last paragraph explaining google won't let us have our cake and eat it, too. It's all or nothing

– Dan
Oct 19 '17 at 16:28

1

this answer is wrong superuser.com/a/543412

– Steven Penny
Dec 16 '17 at 19:50

Wrong: this disables google's autocompletion based on other user's searches, but keeps showing my own searches in autocompletion. I want precisely the opposite: I don't want it to keep track of my search queries (which is intrusive in my opinion, I'm not searching for porn or anything in public mode, but I still don't want my colleagues to see the history of my search queries and topics that interest me), but want to keep autocompletion based on popular queries.

– Boris Burkov
Jan 30 at 11:52

|
show 4 more comments

Go to the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar
1. Click Settings
2. Click Show advanced settings (on the bottom)
3. In the Privacy section, deselect the "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" checkbox

Keep in mind that the address bar shows matches from your browsing history, in addition to predictions. If you don't want to see matches from your browsing history, you must clear that as well.

Beyond that there is nothing more you can do. It is either all or nothing. You cannot modify the behavior of how you dismiss suggestions. Suggestions and autocomplete are the same service.

edited Jan 30 at 16:52

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

Go to the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar
1. Click Settings
2. Click Show advanced settings (on the bottom)
3. In the Privacy section, deselect the "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" checkbox

Keep in mind that the address bar shows matches from your browsing history, in addition to predictions. If you don't want to see matches from your browsing history, you must clear that as well.

Beyond that there is nothing more you can do. It is either all or nothing. You cannot modify the behavior of how you dismiss suggestions. Suggestions and autocomplete are the same service.

edited Jan 30 at 16:52

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

edited Jan 30 at 16:52

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

answered Mar 7 '13 at 20:56

Dan

6531723

1

See support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656. I was interested in removing matches from my browsing history as well. To do that, you need to clear your browsing history. I'm also interested in preventing browsing history from being kept so that I don't have to keep doing this. It seems the only way to do that is to use Incognito ("If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can switch to Incognito mode." - support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589)

– Adam Zerner
Mar 1 '17 at 7:02

1

From the original post, he wanted to keep suggestions, but remove the auto-added highlighted part.

– NessDan
Oct 19 '17 at 15:43

@NessDan yep - hence my last paragraph explaining google won't let us have our cake and eat it, too. It's all or nothing

– Dan
Oct 19 '17 at 16:28

1

this answer is wrong superuser.com/a/543412

– Steven Penny
Dec 16 '17 at 19:50

Wrong: this disables google's autocompletion based on other user's searches, but keeps showing my own searches in autocompletion. I want precisely the opposite: I don't want it to keep track of my search queries (which is intrusive in my opinion, I'm not searching for porn or anything in public mode, but I still don't want my colleagues to see the history of my search queries and topics that interest me), but want to keep autocompletion based on popular queries.

– Boris Burkov
Jan 30 at 11:52

|
show 4 more comments

1

See support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656. I was interested in removing matches from my browsing history as well. To do that, you need to clear your browsing history. I'm also interested in preventing browsing history from being kept so that I don't have to keep doing this. It seems the only way to do that is to use Incognito ("If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can switch to Incognito mode." - support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589)

– Adam Zerner
Mar 1 '17 at 7:02

1

From the original post, he wanted to keep suggestions, but remove the auto-added highlighted part.

– NessDan
Oct 19 '17 at 15:43

@NessDan yep - hence my last paragraph explaining google won't let us have our cake and eat it, too. It's all or nothing

– Dan
Oct 19 '17 at 16:28

1

this answer is wrong superuser.com/a/543412

– Steven Penny
Dec 16 '17 at 19:50

Wrong: this disables google's autocompletion based on other user's searches, but keeps showing my own searches in autocompletion. I want precisely the opposite: I don't want it to keep track of my search queries (which is intrusive in my opinion, I'm not searching for porn or anything in public mode, but I still don't want my colleagues to see the history of my search queries and topics that interest me), but want to keep autocompletion based on popular queries.

– Boris Burkov
Jan 30 at 11:52

See support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656. I was interested in removing matches from my browsing history as well. To do that, you need to clear your browsing history. I'm also interested in preventing browsing history from being kept so that I don't have to keep doing this. It seems the only way to do that is to use Incognito ("If you don’t want Chrome to save your browsing history at all, you can switch to Incognito mode." - support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589)

– Adam Zerner
Mar 1 '17 at 7:02

From the original post, he wanted to keep suggestions, but remove the auto-added highlighted part.

– NessDan
Oct 19 '17 at 15:43

@NessDan yep - hence my last paragraph explaining google won't let us have our cake and eat it, too. It's all or nothing

– Dan
Oct 19 '17 at 16:28

this answer is wrong superuser.com/a/543412

– Steven Penny
Dec 16 '17 at 19:50

Wrong: this disables google's autocompletion based on other user's searches, but keeps showing my own searches in autocompletion. I want precisely the opposite: I don't want it to keep track of my search queries (which is intrusive in my opinion, I'm not searching for porn or anything in public mode, but I still don't want my colleagues to see the history of my search queries and topics that interest me), but want to keep autocompletion based on popular queries.

– Boris Burkov
Jan 30 at 11:52

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