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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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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. ...
Ujjwal Singh's user avatar
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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