Searching popular sites in chrome from address bar not working

Question

I recently reinstalled Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. In both of these browsers I used to have a option to search popular sites like youtube/google maps/drive/superuser etc. in address bar.

What I mean is when I typed youtube.com in the address bar, the browsers prompted me to pressTab and when I did so, something like this appeared in the address bar:

Youtube | <Search term>

And from there it directly took me to the youtube.com results.

But now it doesn't work that way. The browsers don't show the prompts. And when I press Tab , it just highlights the last search suggestion.

Can anyone figure out whats wrong? I'm really missing the feature.

• I mentioned both Chrome and Edge because they both are based on Chromium, and hence must have similiar solutions
• I think only Edge supports searching superuser and stackoverflow

Answer 1

You need to have done a search on those sites for the suggestion to press Tab to appear. So, go to youtube, or superuser. Use the search box and search for something. Then go to the address bar, while typing superuser, the suggestion should appear.

I think only Edge supports searching superuser and stackoverflow

Chrome also supports searching superuser and stackoverflow.

Answer 2

To fix:

1. go to chrome://settings/searchEngines in Chrome settings
2. scroll down to inactive sites, you should see youtube.com
3. Activate it

If not present you can add it Site Search section

After that when you type youtube.com in the address bar, the browsers will prompt you to press Tab it would appear like this in the address bar:

Youtube | <Search term>

And from there it directly take you to the youtube.com results.