I recently changed my pc and I was always using the press tab to search on a site feature of chrome. I imported all my settings through the google account thingy but for whatever reason I was missing the google images search. I looked through the search engine shortcuts and the one for images.google.com was disabled. I enabled it and I thought that was the end of it but it keeps auto disabling and I have no idea why. It's beyond frustrating and I was unable to find any solution for it. How do I stop it from auto disabling?
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Same Problem with other search engine since beginning of the year. Seems like they won't fix it. Time to go back to Firefox.– GobliinsCommented Sep 26, 2022 at 6:51
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It benefits Google financially, if people use Google more often instead of search engine shortcuts (which often lead to non-google websites)– ssppjjCommented Sep 30, 2022 at 17:26
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Well, its called a omnibox. Its like a magic feature.
Well, you can try this : How to add Omnibox search
or this reddit post if you if that's more comfortable
Well , Sadly it works sometimes and other times it does not.
To make it work consistently, I suggest adding the website in question like for example Twitter as search engine
To do that:
Go to
chrome://settings/searchEnginesAdd new Search Engine
For Search engine, add the name of the site; for example, Twitter.
For Keyword, you can use anything you want. Google's defaults tend to use the URL; for example, twitter.com.
The URL is a little more complicated but not that bad. Go to the site you're creating a search engine for, then search for something. I like to use something easy to spot, like asdf
Click Add, and you're done. You've added a custom search engine to Chrome. Now type your keyword in the address bar to see the text Press Tab to search twitter.com.
Press Tab or Space to search as you would.
Keep in mind this solution requires to manually add your search engines.
