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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Chrome: autocomplete domain first?
Firefox usually decides to be smart about this, and it actually works fairly well.
Lets say you have a google search cached. In Firefox, you can start typing in the address bar and it will only ...
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How to disable site specific search in chrome omnibox
Every time I start typing a search string into the Chrome omnibox which starts with "github", Chrome turns it into a site-specific search (see attached GIF).
This only seems to happen for GitHub. I ...
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Google Chrome - How to Turn off the Omnibox/Search box
I would like to turn off recommendations in my omnibox/searchbox. Specifically from history (e.g. disabling typing f to automatically bring up facebook.com).
I find the suggestions distract me often ...
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No Country Redirect + Predictive search ( search suggestions) in Chrome omnibox
As I can see predictive search works well with default google search engine.
As described here, I change search engine to NCR mode:
http://www.google.com/search?{google:RLZ}{google:...
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How can I stop Google searches from showing in the omnibox?
Is there a way to prevent Google searches from auto-filling in the omnibox? I used to be able to get around this by first going to Google and doing my search from there but after having to reinstall ...
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On a Chromebook, how do I selectively delete Search entries from the Omnibox
What I already know:
I have read about deleting URLs from the Omnibox on a Chromebook, that is use Shift+Delete (or Shift+Alt+Backspace on older chromebooks).
I have also found a few articles about ...
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Directly open top three Google results from address bar in Chrome
Recently a friend of mine noticed that I often open the first few Google results in tabs without looking at them first. Now I'd like to directly open the best Google results from the address bar. I ...
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How can I make the "new tab" page load as 'Google' rather than 'Google Canada' in Chrome?
When I open a new tab, I get a new tab page that is running as Google.ca rather than Google.com.
Also, when I do a search at any time in the omnibox, I get results coming from Google.ca.
My ...
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How to restore the URL in Google Chrome's omnibox, i.e. always show it without right-click "Show Url"
Woke up today to Google Chrome version 36.0.1985.143 m and noticed Chrome is now hiding the URL until you choose to right-click in the URL bar to re-show it.
I have checked chrome://settings and ...
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Add Google Custom Search Engine to omnibox
I've created my Google Custom Search Engine here https://www.google.com/cse
When I add it to omnibox with rightclick and try to use it I receive:
It's not unexpectable because search url in that case ...
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Customize chrome's omnibox suggestion list
Is there any way to modify the omnibox suggestion list - such that:
Entries (viz. URLs) can be added
The order of an entry be altered
This may be achievable by modifying a SQLite file some where.
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Disable Chrome Omnibox Search on Space Key
My Chrome Omnibox toggles the search on both TAB and Space key. This is really annoying. Is there any way I can tell Chrome to search only on TAB?
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Chrome omnibox returning blank boxes
My Google Chrome has started returning big empty boxes recently for the omnibox auto-suggestions.
I have:
Rebooted
Checked Chrome is up to date
Tried an assortment of Google searches
Disabled all ...
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Google search field missing
After the latest update in google chrome (36) when I search in the omnibox there is no search field on the google results page and it is possible to search only in the omnibox which is extremely ...
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