Questions tagged [omnibox]
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Make Chrome search bar prefer visited sites over less relevant "suggested" sites
How can I make Chrome prefer my history over what seems to be paid results?
Not now nor have I ever been interested in General Motors.
I just want to confidently type "gm", hit Enter, and go ...
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How to hide everything except omnibox (the address bar) in Google Chrome?
Here is the omnibox on the toolbar:
How to hide everything except it?
Thank you.
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Make Chrome suggest ALL history results and NO web suggestions in omnibox
For various reasons, I like to completely disable omnibox suggestions from the web. However, I would like to get ALL matching results from my own browser history as suggestions (a behaviour that was ...
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Chrome sometimes does not suggest base URL
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 ...
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Can I change the default search behavior in Brave?
I've noticed a change in the way that Brave handles non-URL text typed into its version of the omnibox. I'm not sure whether this is a change in the way Google search results are presented in this ...
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How to disable preview images in Google Chrome Omnibox?
With a recent update, the URL bar in Chrome has started to show images for suggestions it thinks are relevant:
How do I turn this feature off?
I've already disabled #omnibox-rich-entity-suggestions,...
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How to type in Google Chrome's New Tab Page in Full Screen Mode
For me, Chrome's "new tab page" doesn't work in full screen mode, in the sense that my typing has no effect - the omnibox and the search box seem dead. Clicking on the omnibox to give it focus has no ...
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Can I change the search order in the Chrome Omnibox
Is it possible to change search order that the Omnibar uses?
We have a few internal webpages, for example, one called http://openoptions.
When the users type "openoptions" in the Omnibar, the ...
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How do I add an "At Sign Search" to Firefox 68?
Firefox has a really neat "at-sign search" feature where, for some search engines, if you preface a search with @[engine_tag], the search will take place on that site instead of in the default search ...
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Can I make Chrome omnibox autofill prioritize URLs before searches?
I started encountering this issue after a recent Chrome update. Omnibox autocomplete now returns previous searches before previously visited URLs. This is annoying for me as I'm used to typing in one ...
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chrome disable omnibox searches webhelper.centurylink.com
If I type "news" and another word, I'm trying to have the chrome omnibox do a search for "another word"
What I get instead is an "auto complete" search that results in this website:
http://webhelper....
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How to remove near-duplicate links from Chrome's Omnibox auto-suggestions
I'm mainly using, and in this question specifying, Chrome (current version as of writing: 63.0.3239.84). In Chrome I visit sites, for example Reddit, and if I enter:
reddit.com/r/jq
The Omnibox ...
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Firefox: disable "search" in autocomplete url/location bar
How to disable the "search" suggestions in autocomplete url/location bar?
For example, in this screenshot
I would like to remove the lower part:
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Stop Chrome omnibox from converting search terms to URLs
for the most time I am searching the internet via Chrome's omnibox. However, wehen entering single words it converts that search term to an URL and sends me to that webpage. Is there a way to turn ...
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Chrome tab search no longer works on some sites
I've used Chrome for years. One of my favorite features is that once you've been to a site with a search, you can later type the site name and hit tab to search from the omnibox. For instance on ...
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