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This is not tied to a particular version of Chrome but has happened occasionally over the years. Sometimes the "base" address stops getting suggested in the autocomplete (or even the dropdown options) of the ominbox.

For example, if I currently start typing redd I get https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/ suggested. The base URL https://www.reddit.com/ is not even suggested in the dropdown. To not get the suggestion I have to type the full reddit.com or reddit.com/.

Why is it so and how to prevent that?

I must note that I have not intentionally deleted https://www.reddit.com/ from my history or ShiftDeleted it from the suggestions. In fact I haven't intentionally cleared my history at all in quite some time. And I am not (was not, before this) visiting that https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/ a lot, especially not through manual entry. If anything, I manually type r/all from time to time.

Note: I am aware I can "solve" it by deleting every competing entry, but I do want to keep those entries. It just feels like Chrome is getting prioritization wrong in some cases.

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  • The loss of control feeling is similar to how one accidental / after your search term will forever complete yoursearchterm to yoursearchterm/ and try to visit http://yoursearchterm/.
    – Džuris
    Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 21:50
  • Seems to be a duplicate.
    – Layne B
    Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 21:55
  • Does this answer your question? Can I make Chrome omnibox autofill prioritize URLs before searches?
    – Layne B
    Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 21:56
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    @LayneBernardo I don't think so. This is not an issue of searches vs URLs, but just the wrong URL getting prioritized. Besides the bug in that question has been fixed already.
    – Džuris
    Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 21:58
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    Hmm, not sure then. You can start with ^ to only check history, and * to only check bookmarks, but beyond that I'm not sure how you would fix this
    – Layne B
    Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 22:03

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