| how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | ccg | 12/13/08 7:48 AM | |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | richardkelley | 12/13/08 9:10 AM | I am having the same problem. The routine under Tools to disable the autocomplete function does nothing. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | TobiFromBavaria | 12/13/08 10:57 AM | Click on the wrench icon and select "Options". Go to the "Under the hood" options tab. Uncheck "Use a suggestion service...". |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | ccg | 12/13/08 2:39 PM | Tobi, I already unchecked "use a suggestion service" AND "show suggestions for navigation errors" but still, it's autocompleting for me :( c |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | ccg | 12/13/08 2:49 PM | I figured it out. After unchecking you'll still need to Clear Browsing Data -> for this period (choose everything). I guess the uncheck just stops adding urls, but the ones that are already there will keep appearing unless cleared. thanks. c |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | fwedthefwuppe | 12/15/08 9:17 AM | It doesn't work for me - and when I am typing a url even after completing purging the history I do not want to see my boomarks offered as a suggestion in a drop down - If I have recorded them as a bookmark I not that likely to continue to type the ur |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | fwedthefwuppe | 12/16/08 7:46 AM | Still no real answers - What a shame - I will now un-install this total cock up |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Willi | 1/23/09 12:38 PM | Form autocomplete can be disable on the Minor Tweaks tab of the Options dialog. It works for me :) |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jumblebuckler | 1/24/09 12:54 PM | Autocomplete and suggestion turned off yet it STILL offers a huge drop down when I type if I for example type www. it provides a long list of suggestions - are google just THICK |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jumblebuckler | 1/25/09 12:03 PM | Having jut check AUTO COMPLETE does NOT appear in Minor Tweaks for me, all I have there is Download Location, Passwords and Fonts I don't want a drop down of history as I start typing, most of the time I am typing a completely new url unassociated w |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Shawn (Googler) | 3/18/09 2:07 PM | Hi guys, I think some of us may be talking about two different things here. The original topic of conversation seems to be the auto-suggestions feature when you search in the address bar. The other topic of conversation seems to be the form autofill |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Nami | 8/8/09 2:39 AM | This was extremely helpful! However, there doesn't appear to be a "minor tweaks" tab on the standard, beta, nor developer channels of Google Chrome. Therefore it doesn't appear that I can turn autofill/autocomplete off based on the provided instructi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Gilles.of.Augustine | 8/31/09 4:10 AM | One or two people have asked a question in this thread that hasn't been answered, and that I'm reiterating it now: How do I make it so that my BOOKMARKS don't show up as suggestions in the address bar? I've turned off Auto-suggestions and I've turne |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 518 | 9/25/09 3:01 PM | I dont see "MINOR TWEAKS" tab, I only see Basics, Personal Stuff, and Under the Hood. I uncheked the following: UNDER THE HOOD tab Show Suggestions.... Use suggestion service... PERSONAL STUFF tab Never save passwords never save text from forms C |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | kopacetic | 10/22/09 10:04 AM | even with everything turned off (autocomplete/autosuggest) it STILL suggests in the omnibox. It does this suggesting urls from months ago. the privacy issues here are downright scary. Web history deleted, web history disabled. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | kopacetic | 10/22/09 10:05 AM | So its getting its autosuggest from your bookmarks. Wonderful. How do I turn it off? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Bapabooiee | 11/28/09 10:09 PM | To clear-up any confusion, the "Minor Tweaks" tab has now been renamed to "Personal Stuff". The two terms are synonymous. And for the record, it does not appear you can truly disable auto-complete in Chrome. You can turn-off auto-fill and the search |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | gonetodocs | 1/27/10 4:07 AM | What about if you "clear the browser data" on the "Personal Stuff" tab? I assume it will delete my bookmarks but I can always import them back into Chrome from Firefox once I clear this issue? Anyone had any experience with this option |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | mamba720027 | 2/11/10 10:59 AM | Gilles.of.Augustine: |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | SEWS | 2/20/10 8:39 AM | Finally! Thanks so much. Turning off the search engine suggestion service used to eliminate all suggestions. This should be restored as a working toolbox option. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | bucklezzz | 3/2/10 8:03 PM | restating Bapabooiee: "And for the record, it does not appear you can truly disable auto-complete in Chrome.... not the auto-complete from the address bar itself." Right on. When my gmail login screen is opened, the last username to use gmail is au |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Tyler.Durden | 3/6/10 6:26 AM | 5.0.342.2 dev Form data is saved regardless of setting to disable. Persistent data does not carry across domains: gmail login ID will appear as a choice on google/youtube forms, but not yahoo (or other forms). Yahoo login ID will appear as choice i |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Tyler.Durden | 3/24/10 9:27 PM | Dev Channel 5.0.356.2 Issue appears resolved. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | macsearcher | 4/17/10 12:45 PM | Re: right click on Google Chrome icon. I don't have a google chrome icon anywhere. I am on OSX. Does anyone have a suggestion? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Stefan vd | 4/17/10 12:48 PM | @macsearcher,Read the references article what Shawn (Google Employee) said. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | macsearcher | 4/17/10 12:53 PM | I am referring to the solution below I don't have a Google Chrome icon. Shawn's suggestion did not solve my problem 1. Go to your google Chrome icon and right click then hit properties. 2. Click on the shortcut tab 3. Where it |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Stefan vd | 4/17/10 1:03 PM | Just make a shortcut of Google Chrome on you desktop (mean that icon of Google Chrome shortcut) Example path to Google Chrome programC:\Users\Stefan\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe Change the name "Stefan" to you user account name |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | macsearcher | 4/17/10 2:32 PM | thank you to all for suggestions but once again, I am using a mac on OSX. These solutions do not work for Mac. There is no way to access "properties" from any Google Chrome icon. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Stefan vd | 4/18/10 1:49 AM | Doesn't know you got a MAC computer. In you Dock or where the Google Chrome icon is. Then you click properties..... |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lavantster | 6/1/10 11:44 PM | I have been having the same problem. I used the "omnibox-popup" workaround...doesn't work. I clear history. Doesn't work. Uncheck "suggestion service." Does NOT work. Seriously, now, folks. I've been using (and loving) chrome for a while. This seems |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Stevesz | 6/9/10 8:39 AM | The whole idea of forcing a search if the url is invalid, I find extremely annoying! Turning off both Show suggestions..., and Use a suggestion... have not stopped it. (If it ever was supposed to.) I don't want hand holding UNLESS I ASK for it. Not |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Baisong | 6/11/10 6:01 AM | I did all the listed steps, but my problem is still here: It used to be (just two days ago) that when I type "en.w" in the address bar it would auto complete "http://en.wikipedia.org," all I had to do was hit enter and it would take me there. Now the sugges |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | rhizopoda | 6/22/10 8:30 PM | Stefan vd, that 4/18/10 answer is of no use to Mac users. You don't get "properties" when left- or right-clicking on the Chrome icon. I *absolutely detest* autocomplete and don't want any suggestions in the URL bar. I'm having problems with Safari 5 |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | cbisnaire | 7/20/10 5:47 PM | WTF?? How come this problem hasn't been fixed yet? The option to deselect "use a service to complete searches in address bar" does SWEET NOTHING!!!! Hello GOOGLE, ARE YOU LISTENING!!!!!!????? FIX THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm dropping your browser till you d |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | abdurahmanhaji | 7/25/10 11:28 AM | IF YOU DON"T LIKE THIS CR*P GO TO FIREFOX WHICH ACTUALLY WORKS AND HAS HUNDREDS OF FREE ADDONS AND CUSTIMIZATIONS!!!!!! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | mtsang78 | 7/28/10 5:02 AM | I found a simple solution that might help some of you - I found a way to delete the Omnibar's auto-complete BUT it won't help you pick and choose the history you do/don't want to keep. I struggled with this problem for hours with all the forums sayi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 8/21/10 2:44 AM | I'm currently using MZFF (Mozilla Firefox). Can't tolerate this piece of cr*p. Your attempt at a browser is a total failure. Just fix up the problems, and I will return to chrome. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 8/21/10 2:48 AM | I just *absolutely seriously extremely detest and despise chrome's address bar autocomplete*. At least FF has an option to hide suggestions, while Chrome doesn't. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | abogslife | 9/6/10 12:11 AM | to disable auto complete in forms just go to tools > personal stuff > Autofill options. uncheck auto fill. for disabling auto suggestion in web address go to tools> Under the hood. uncheck the use a suggestion service to help complete searches and U |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 9/6/10 12:44 AM | Unchecking "Use a suggestion service" dosen't work... |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 9/6/10 10:21 AM | EXACTLY! That's the problem. It doesn't work, abogslife. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | olivierventurini | 9/8/10 4:19 AM | No it doesn't work. I am on mac too and when i enter a first letter in say Wikipedia, I see the list of all searches I have performed starting with the letter. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 9/8/10 6:56 AM | Or else it will start bringing up all your Bookmarks that start with that letter.......... I don't want anything to come up when I search. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 9/17/10 7:55 PM | The "Forms Autofill" is not the same thing that I'm talking about. The "Forms Autofill" fills out forms automatically on a web page like when you have to put in your name or email, et cetera. I'm talking about when you're doing a search. When I ty |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | autofillsucks | 9/17/10 10:56 PM | I AM SO FRUSTRATED WITH THIS. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | cratuki | 9/20/10 12:22 AM | This is an interesting issue. I read a post about discussions between early chrome developers, particularly the debate they had about autocomplete in the navigation bar. One of the project leads was strongly set against autocomplete, because he said |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | olivierventurini | 9/20/10 12:29 AM | I don't know what I did but I FINALLY worked. Problem is I have tried so many of the suggestions I could find on the issue that I have no clue which one worked in the end. But there is a way. It would be nice if someone from Google could tell us for |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | EwanTBC | 10/1/10 6:43 PM | I'm having this problem too, and reading people suggesting me to uncheck the suggestion service in the options menu is really beginning to annoy me. It doesn't freaking work. Seriously, I can't believe this problem still hasn't been solved after lite |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | EwanTBC | 10/1/10 6:45 PM | Oh & I've also stopped using Chrome till this is fixed. Shame, I rather liked the browser but this really is a deal breaker. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | FastJezza | 10/2/10 12:54 AM | It's not a problem, obviously, but rather a deliberate decision on the part of Google to make it near impossible to turn off - whether for reasons of data capture, or revenue raising (suggestion comes up; user hits "go" and Google collects from the w |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | PetervG | 10/22/10 11:11 PM | Fix this |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jackeagan | 10/24/10 6:36 PM | I have been trying to find the solution to this problem for days, and I have finally found the answer. All you have to do to turn off AutoFill (otherwise known as AutoComplete on Internet Explorer) is: 1. Click on the wrench icon 2. Click on "Option |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 10/24/10 6:49 PM | Jack, the post isn't talking about the "Auto Complete" for FORMS. The post is talking about "Chrome" giving suggestions when you put something in the "ADDRESS" bar for searching purposes. As an example: I have a website in my bookmarks for some NF |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 11/12/10 3:10 PM | This is absolutely a deal breaker for me. It wouldn't seem so hard to add an option to not display a dropdown of your history AND bookmarks. The omnibox solution seemed promising, but I'm on a Mac and this doesn't seem like it will work. Back to Fi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 11/13/10 11:20 PM | ditto |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | duchydemux | 11/15/10 10:06 PM | I want not only a list of sites which I trust with forms autocomplete. Also I want to turn it off for forms in certain sites so an exceptions list for autocomplete will be very helpful, too. When I enter a new zone like par exemplar a loaded advertis |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 11/17/10 10:31 PM | @duchydemux we are talking about ADDRESS BAR autocomplete, not form autofill. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | JChow | 12/1/10 3:39 PM | Startup using "chrome.exe -omnibox-popup-count=1" (you need to modify the startup shortcut). Works for me. No AutoComplete anymore. :D |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 12/1/10 4:27 PM | JChow, Are you talking about going to "properties," and then changing the "Target"? If so, do you change it to this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -omnibox-popup-count=1 or are you talking about doing it like this: |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | gray123 | 12/2/10 1:20 AM | Hi is anyon working on a fix for this I tested Chrome and found the same problem you cannot turn off auto complete whatever you do, which will stop me even considering using Chrome. I have used mosaic, netscape, IE and Firefox and I can never remembe |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | JChow | 12/2/10 5:16 AM | It doesn't really matter where you put the quotation. That depends on whether the OS can recognize space in the app path without a quotatiion. If not, you need quotations before and after, then the command line switch. Newer windows OS allows both |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | DonToolBag | 12/15/10 9:07 AM | Just to chime in - I agree with this feature being annoying. Some sites, it just autofills instead of stopping at the domain. There are plenty of sites that I have visited many url's from that I just don't necessarily want going to one page. (YouT |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | chriswbrad | 12/15/10 8:36 PM | I like the omnibox automatically loading a page when I type it, but if the dropdown is covering the page it isn't really worth it. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Cakesy Girl | 12/19/10 9:01 AM | I am uninstalling Chrome until this is fixed. Why is Google not addressing this issue? Talk about an unresponsive company. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | naucha | 12/25/10 10:06 AM | I find Autofill useful, however even when I have deleted all the addresses in the Autofilll options window, I still have old data showing up. I have cleared cookies, cache restarted the browser, the only thing that works is disabling autofill complet |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 12/26/10 6:06 PM | @naucha Don't you get this? This thread is talking about ADDRESS BAR autocomplete, not autofill. Say, for example, I go onto amazon to buy a friend some birthday presents. The next day, i invite him over for some computer help. He goes onto chrome to |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | luuuuuuukee | 12/28/10 1:39 PM | My biggest problem in this isn't even the drop down menu (it's helped me a few times), but that it automatically fills in the omnibox, so if I have previously searched, for example, "google chrome has this ridiculous problem", then the next time I tr |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Blackhawkfin | 1/13/11 5:51 PM | Damn, I wept blood and tears before I got this problem under control, but basically the problem with the search history suggestions is mixed up with AUTOFILL on Chrome. So chrome uses the autofill to fill all sorts of forms online, and it cant separa |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nathenh | 1/15/11 10:06 AM | A few people have mentioned to turn off AUTOFILL to fix this and others freak out on them about it. I KNOW that autocomplete and autofill are two COMPLETELY different things. However, by disabling the autofill it ALSO disables all autocomplete. It is |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 1/15/11 11:46 AM | I have to disagree with you, nathenh. Disabling the autofill does NOT disable all autocomplete. My autofill is DISABLED, but when I type something in the address bar, ALL of my BOOKMARKS start coming up as suggestions. I DO NOT want this, but ther |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | pauluws | 1/16/11 7:52 AM | Let me describe an example. Go to http://dailymotion.com. Enter the search "abba" in the search box. Whenever you type "a" in the search box, abba will appear in the drop down box. It doesn't matter what option you use, it will continue to appear. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jtwallacej2 | 1/17/11 12:48 AM | you guys go to clear browsing data click clear saved from data and turn off suggestion service its fine from there |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | blublabli | 1/18/11 2:18 PM | There still seems to be no solution for this. The main problem is that the urlbar shows suggestions from browser history while typing, and this is what I want to disable. How do I do that ? I don't want anything to pop up under the urlbar, and actual |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | wawilke | 1/18/11 2:58 PM | Having a similar problem (I think . . . I hope I am not further confusing this thread). I do not mind the drop down suggestions. I do not mind auto-complete trying to guess a URL I DO mind when I am using the address bar (omnibox) to search and it k |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 1/18/11 4:58 PM | Okay, people, I've made a LINK of what I'm talking about. Here's the link: http://awesomescreenshot.com/02c64qe17 Just copy and paste it in your browser. I've put a RED arrow to the left of the drop down menu regarding what I'm talking about. A |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nikelodian | 2/9/11 11:51 AM | Well, I found that sulution somewehere else, but it works, at least for the autocomplete of the history: Close chrome, go to your chrome directory/user data/default, delete the "history" file. Start chrome, the History file will be recreated. Stop ch |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | RemanLandDotCom | 2/16/11 11:33 AM | I had to figure this out for myself: 1. Click Chrome > Pref's 2. Beside "Stop Syncing this account," click customize 3. Turn off Autofill 4. Save/Close It doesn't matter what you do anywhere else. If Google Chrome is set to sync with your Google acc |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | grey-wolf | 2/20/11 5:52 AM | I'm still getting issues with Chrome wanting to predict what i'm typing and preferring the prediciton/previously written text over what i am actually typing, it's a joke. A quick example would be wanting to visit a site called "cheese", i start typi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | anorman728 | 3/1/11 10:21 PM | Despite what so many people seem to be repeating over and over as if it changes reality, this has nothing to do with autofill, and disabling autofill does not fix the problem. What distinguishes a bad feature from an anti-feature is the inability to |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | José_Manuel | 3/3/11 8:24 PM | Who was the genius that decided to force us to use this "feature"? It's stupid, chrome insists in autocomplete my words, the old implementation in which the suggestions dropped in a popup without actually replacing my words was much better. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | furniture95 | 3/5/11 3:58 PM | I had the same exact problem, dont click under the hood. Just click the wrench icon click options, then click personal stuff. After that, click show saved passwords and clear them, and you could also click the bubble that says never save passwords. h |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Toatee | 3/8/11 1:54 PM | Why won't Google let us turn off autocomplete in the Omnibox? An option or extension or just a hidden switch would be easy for Google engineers to provide. A lot of people have complained about this issue. Here is an example of the problem: If I ty |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | mmanion | 3/13/11 11:07 AM | I had to do a three step process to get this to stop. 1.) In options 'under the hood,' uncheck 'use a prediction service' in the privacy settings. 2.) Clear your browsing history of everything since the beginning of time (pain, I know, but less pain |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | pchyder | 3/31/11 6:08 AM | ANY and EVERY google employee who is trying to dictate what we can or cannot turn off MUST be IDENTIFIED, SACKED and possibly JAILED - Now seeking to close all gmail accounts and stop using google PERMANENTLY until those responsible are JAILED |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | puptent18 | 4/6/11 11:19 PM | I did every step you mentioned, and, yes, it did make them go away . . . BUT it didn't keep it from happening again! When I typed the same or different items in the address bar AFTER they had been erased, they continued to be remembered. In other w |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | StuartMcC | 4/16/11 1:58 PM | It seems like everyone is here for the same problem. Note that this problem is not "disable autofill" for forms (I always have this disabled). The problem is not fixed by "disable prediction service," (I have it unchecked). The problem is like this: |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | neilowitz | 4/22/11 2:23 PM | As everyone here has mentioned: this is NOT resolved, and it's annoying. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Skynne | 4/24/11 7:20 AM | It has been two years since Shawn posted that answer, and the option STILL doesn't work. I've unticked it, cleared history, typed in a url and visited it. Then I close chrome, open it again, type the url again and yet again, it begins to autocomplete |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jasovik | 5/17/11 11:51 PM | I'm posting now in May of 2011. I use a variety of Macs with OSX, and a variety of WIndows laptops with XP and 7. I have various versions of Chrome installed on all. I've followed all of the instructions in this post. I turn off auto suggestion, |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | pa7adin | 5/23/11 10:15 AM | Bump. Like the browser, seems to run fast and renders sites well. But GOOD LORD, that auto complete in their 'omnibox' has to go. At least for me, it is irritating enough to switch back to another browser until that is fixed. Come on Google ... |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | j42069t | 5/25/11 11:48 AM | Yet another bump. I've also disabled every possible option, tried the shortcut fix, etc. Nothing works! Omnibox prediction is annoying as all hell. Why is there even a button to disable prediction if you can't really disable it? Also, why do I see n |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Barack | 5/30/11 11:28 PM | I am copying the bloody hell out of this so Google know what pillocks they are. Was going to re install chrome, but this is a deal breaker. Honestly, this is f*cking crap. The google employees who thought of this deserve to be JAILED. I don't have a |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Solar01 | 6/3/11 8:41 PM | I MANAGED TO DISABLE IT 1. Delete all history AND CACHE, since "the beginning of time" 2. Close Chrome 3. Open Chrome and its Tools>Options 4. Within the Under the Bonnet/Hood tab, uncheck 'Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | aquapisces365 | 6/6/11 7:51 PM | Click the wrench, and select Options. Go to Under the Hood. In the Privacy section, click the rectangular button that says "Clear browsing data..." Make sure the "Clear Saved Autofill Form Data" box is CHECKED. and uncheck any data that you don't wan |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nessaboo0816 | 6/11/11 11:19 AM | i am having the same problem and i cant get it to stop either i hate how that address bar drops down everytime and i have tried everything!! i hate how stupid people are replying to this question. quit telling us to delete out browsing history and to |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nessaboo0816 | 6/11/11 11:32 AM | its not like it would be that hard to fix for them... i think they should just make a box to check and uncheck if you want the address bar to drop down or not |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | clay227 | 7/2/11 6:29 AM | goodbye chrome hello firefox 5 was fun , but this bug is too annoying |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | anorman728 | 7/3/11 7:04 PM | I don't know how long it's been, but this finally drove me away from Chrome and to Firefox. I don't regret it so far; Mozilla is much more respectful to what the user actually wants instead of forcing something that the user doesn't want. I know th |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | TheWizKhalif | 7/10/11 11:05 AM | damn. i jus downloaded chrome because i knew it used less memory than firefox. this is insane though. the omnibox doesnt even pull up pages youve been to already properly and it obvious google has some financial interest in keeping things the way |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Sie_Deen | 7/28/11 11:00 AM | Hi everyone, It seems there are two main conversations in this thread. As mentioned by Shawn Turning off Predictions in the address bar Ref[1] 1. Clear browsing history (optional - only do this if you don't want to see matches from your browsing |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | meemu | 7/29/11 4:13 AM | how hard can this be? the "clear your browsing history" just does not work, nor should i be forced to do that. what should work is unchecking the prediction checkbox in advanced settings. since it does not, this is completely broken and needs a big f |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Toatee | 7/30/11 2:21 PM | ARGH! No, No, No, No, No, No! Google Employees Sie Deen and Shaun, are you being evasive or patronizing or both, or do you seriously not understand? Many users, including myself and others who have posted here, do not want Autocomplete in the Omnibo |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Peter Kasting | 8/2/11 11:22 AM | Hi Toatee et al., I'm the engineer responsible for the Chrome omnibox. I'm sorry that it's been frustrating you. Whenever autocompletion does something annoying rather than helpful, we want to fix the problem for all users -- not just the very few |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Peter Kasting | 8/2/11 11:25 AM | I should also mention that we have a bug on file to make it easier to delete individual suggestions from the omnibox dropdown when they're tripping you up. We already support this, but it's hard to trigger (requires hitting shift-delete with no inli |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Bull Muse | 8/11/11 3:58 AM | You just don't get it, do you Peter? None of you Google people get it. There are *pages* of comments here about how no one wants this feature, and you bring us tweaks for how to best use it. This, after years of us telling you to get rid of it. You " |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | anaretentive | 8/11/11 5:30 AM | I found a solution to this problem that worked for me and everyone I know who suffers from this annoying problem. Switch to Firefox. Despite the good features of Chrome, the search box to find bookmarks and history is something I use a LOT every day |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jumpfroggy | 8/18/11 10:08 AM | @Peter Kasting - It's admirable to try to find a solution that helps everyone. Unfortunately your fix does not. I'm often searching for different programming-related bug fixes. This often involves typing in error messages, or combinations (ie. chr |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | anorman728 | 8/20/11 1:39 AM | Hello Mr. Kasting, I intend to be polite, but I must warn you that I also intend to be very straightforward and honest. I have to point out something that is, quite honestly, extraordinarily obvious. And that is that your response is nothing short |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | ggonzo | 8/20/11 8:57 AM | After reading this complete thread, and specially the insulting narrow-minded reply from the omnibox engineer, I can see it's not in Google's interest to give users an option that would disable autocomplete on the search bar. This doesn't come as a s |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 8/20/11 9:02 AM | Has the in-line autocomplete actually gotten worse lately? I mean I type 'car' in the omnibox, and something that i've never even searched for comes up while typing and when I press enter i've suddenly searched for 'caribia'. How hard can it be add |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 8/20/11 9:24 PM | Has this been addressed?? I just downloaded Chrome 14 beta and nothing has changed regarding this. Google engineers, why is this http://i.imgur.com/fVGWr.png so hard? That simple option is from Firefox, and is what's keeping me from using Chrome. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Nobody Influential | 8/20/11 10:31 PM | I simply cannot believe that I can no longer disable autocomplete when typing into the address bar. It's a striking blow to individualism, Google. I'm beginning to think that I wasted my time migrating over to Chrome last year. In two years, no on |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | W. J. Zeallor | 8/24/11 3:57 PM | Please give your users a way to disable this. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Ahnfelt | 8/26/11 12:29 PM | Autocompletion in the omnibar is a major usability problem. It almost goes without saying that even if I frequently visit "http://google.com", I don't want "go" <enter> to lead me to the http://google.com main page... I want to search for "go"! It's problematic |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dm00009 | 8/28/11 5:03 PM | I'd like to add my voice to the growing list of users who object to this "feature" being forced on them. I like Chrome but will be switching back to FF if Google continue to refuse to resolve this. @Mr Kastings - you say ".. we still want autocompl |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 自動 | 8/31/11 5:25 AM | I want neither auto-complete nor drop-down suggestions. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Draizzt | 8/31/11 11:02 PM | And here I was about to choose chrome over firefox... It was faster and I almost got all my addons and things like I had on firefox. But then I come over this very same problem, which I find at the very least quite humorous, to actually think someo |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Justin Buser | 9/3/11 8:16 PM | For anyone from the list that was mistakenly merged with this one ( http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?fid=60b0f0c8b27771b80004aa5289bc4ed2&hl=en ) that's looking for answers/resolution to making the auto-complete functionality requi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Justin Buser | 9/3/11 8:40 PM | @Draizzt If you're going to be a wise ass and insult people for misinterpreting the unintelligible ramblings written in broken English that make up 90% of the posts in this list you shouldn't follow it up with what could only be described as an 'amb |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Josh2021 | 9/13/11 3:28 PM | I did all these things. It still tries to fill in what I'm typing and I end up going to it's prediction rather than what I was typing. I type in twit and press enter it sends me to twitter. I want to shut that off. I do not find it useful. I can type |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 9/14/11 12:15 PM | Just now searched for "youtube", went looking even at the second page for a link to wikipedia until I noticed that the omnibar had typed "youtube videos", which I had only searched for ONCE in the past, maybe went back to the page and repeated the se |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 9/14/11 12:21 PM | I'm still waiting for that tiny checkbox to disable this completely useless and incredibly frustrating feature. I can't honestly believe you people at Google are this stubborn. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 9/14/11 5:53 PM | Since Google doesn't seem to be listening, I've started a thread in the Chromium discussions http://bit.ly/oWFIYY There may be a better chance of these guys implementing it, since the Omnibox is Google's cash box. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Heavyside0 | 9/15/11 12:54 PM | Here to add another voice. I'm very disappointed in google's handling of the situation, especially the fact that they include an option that is VERY misleading. The autocomplete option may disable the google engine's predictive search functionality, |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | zhangw | 9/17/11 8:09 PM | Bump - come on Google fix this piece of shit. We don't want the URL box to prompt us anything!! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Toatee | 9/18/11 6:55 AM | Hackers, Please Help! Google engineer Peter Kasting has explained that he "won't be adding an option" to remove this very annoying feature (Peter's invention, History-based Autocomplete in the Omnibox, AKA History-Quick-Provider). He said that versio |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Toatee | 9/18/11 7:13 AM | Cheer on pdf.js, a Mozilla Labs project. Lack of native pdf support has long been a shortcoming of Firefox. The pdf.js project promises to fix that problem by giving html the ability to read pdf, eventually including the whole spec. The ability to o |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jheimendinger | 9/19/11 6:42 PM | Omnibox is a huge piece of garbage and never works. Furthermore, it actually interferes with my search engine keywords. For example, when I try to use my Wikipedia keyword, it thinks I want to search Google for "wiki <keyword>" instead of directly |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Jajazikstackian | 9/22/11 6:07 AM | Yes, this is an incredible nuisance. I can live with previous searches/urls popping up as SUGGESTIONS but that's all they should be. The fact that the most probable match is automatically added to the box shows a disgraceful failure of design. It's s |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 9/22/11 5:04 PM | I got excited when I saw Chrome 15 beta download. I thought to myself that maybe Google has listened and added this single feature into Chrome 15. NOPE!!! Same old bull.... but now with a fancy new tab screen so people have easier access to see wha |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 9/24/11 1:50 PM | Just quickly typed in 'moon' to the omnibox and started browsing the images, I was confused when I could only see like one or two pictures of the moon until I realized that the omnibox had, again, autocompleted my search, and I had searched for 'moon |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | booksrule9 | 9/25/11 8:55 PM | Google is doing a terrible job with this issue. I think they have a hard time understanding that we're all talking about auto-complete and NOT autofill nor anything with the omnibox. What you can do is you can do is delete the auto-complete results. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 9/26/11 12:00 PM | Also I find it weird having no option to disable autocomplete in the omnibox but still having it on regular Google search. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | pandaman777 | 9/28/11 9:30 AM | Coming from Firefox, this is my biggest gripe atm. Reading through this, do Google even understand the issue? Here is my example - I type into the omnibox "Google Wikipedia" so I can find the Wiki article on Google Next time I type "Google" to sear |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | pandaman777 | 9/28/11 9:31 AM | BTW, to add to what I put... I don't mind auto-fill or suggestions, but I just wish they appeared in a drop down I can scroll through myself |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Medard22 | 9/29/11 6:09 AM | I have the same problem and every time I download latest developer version of chromium I test if this agressive autofill is still present. This "feature" or rather bug is annoying, and it distracts from a smooth web experience. As the original threa |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | wesleywatson | 10/3/11 7:46 PM | This was posted a while ago in another discussion I opened about this problem/feature: "We are working hard to address your concerns and improve the autocomplete feature in the Omnibox. We've implemented a fix in Chrome 14 (which is currently in Be |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | turtletank | 10/5/11 11:02 PM | This still does not cover my problem with the omnibox prediction. Say I search for "graphics cards nvidia" (without quotes). Later, I want to search for just "graphics cards", so I type that out and hit enter, BUT contrary to what I expect (that is |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | crumb28 | 10/6/11 2:31 AM | I can't believe Google has not implemented a disable option for this yet. It's amazing how detrimental this feature can be to people's browsing experience. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dm00009 | 10/6/11 2:37 AM | See comment on bug here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=91378#makechanges "There will never be an option to disable autocompletion entirely" No reason given. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 10/6/11 9:07 AM | "If in the future we find more cases where autocompletion isn't serving the user well we want to learn about them and fix them for all users, not just give an overly-broad on/off switch." Why the hell can't they do both? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 10/6/11 1:44 PM | Hey Google, autocomplete isn't serving me, the user well. Please don't try to learn about me and figure out what I want to search for. Give us, the users, a choice to turn on/off autocomplete. You're wasting countless hours trying to resolve this w |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 10/6/11 2:15 PM | That isn't an option for me in the "UNDER THE HOOD" area. What version of Chrome are you using? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 4t9rs | 10/6/11 2:21 PM | http://twitpic.com/6w5foh Here's a link of what mine looks like. Where is that option that you're talking about??? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | JackyH | 10/6/11 5:25 PM | Hi Everyone, Thanks for your feedback; as we continue to develop autocomplete, your feedback is helpful. Thanks,Jacky |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Mimetic | 10/6/11 8:19 PM | Currently watching this discussion via Firefox, as this autocomplete 'feature' is way too big of a nuisance to continue using Chrome. Really hoping it gets fixed soon, as I really enjoy Chrome other than this one problem. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | jmccaffrey77 | 10/9/11 7:47 AM | JackyH, Google, All we are asking is for omnibox (aka the address bar) to not autocomplete or suggest ANYTHING, and to have the ability to enable/disable these types of "features" as we individually choose. I would like to type the entire url in the |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | warofsoul | 10/11/11 11:15 AM | that's enough - I haven't got the patience for this rubbish - I've got a life GOODBYE CHROME!!!! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lavantster | 10/11/11 11:03 PM | The "we'll never offer this" crap is totally ridiculous. Seriously, why be so dictatorial? Why not let people have a choice? I thought google was supposed to stand for something good, something that helps people, something - dare I say it? Steve Jobs |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | d.justins | 10/17/11 8:12 AM | I'm switching back to firefox as well. This is a SERIOUS problem and should be considered a glitch instead of a feature. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Rat666 | 10/20/11 4:33 AM | I'm writing my PhD thesis in cell biology. Google has some great tools for research, BUT if i accidentally search for an auto-complete i didn't want one more time, I'm going to highlight my entire thesis and hit delete out of pure rage! Use 'tab' fo |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nankwokfire | 11/2/11 12:50 PM | I'm still not seeing google address the basic question here. I want to turn off all suggestions, from history, bookmarks, auto-complete, etc, such that absolutely nothing appears when I type in the omnibox. I'd like to move from Firefox to Chrome b |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 2001f4i | 11/2/11 8:18 PM | JackyH, I cannot believe your latest reply.. go back and see when this thread was started, yup 2009!!!! and you still have the nerve to say "we're working on it"? I for one would like to know why it was EVER implemented in the first place? did you h |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dm00009 | 11/3/11 2:45 AM | I've had enough. Changing browser and probably won't be back. Google engineers - empty quotes like "Thanks for your feedback; as we continue to develop autocomplete, your feedback is helpful" are pointless and not in any way informative. You know |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 11/3/11 11:07 PM | @JackyH How about developing an "None" checkbox option? I can't imagine this taking very long. The simple mistake of UX (user experience for those of you who don't know) is OVERthinking and OVERdeveloping. I know you guys sit in a room and try to th |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Indian_Maratha | 11/5/11 10:15 PM | Simple way of not letting google completing your sentence in the address bar is as following :- Go to Wrench === Options === Under the hood === Privacy === Click on Clear Browsing Data ==== Check " Clear saved Autofill form data" === Click on Clear |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 11/6/11 9:46 AM | @indian_Maratha Thank you, but we've already gone through this. 1. You have to do this every single browsing session 2. This does not help with displaying bookmarks in the omnibox |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Nobody Influential | 11/7/11 10:41 PM | Not being able to minimize those stupid eight boxes that pop up with little pictures of my "most visited" sites was the last straw for me. I uninstalled chrome for good last week. I used to be able to minimize/disable those dumb boxes, but not anym |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | raace | 11/9/11 7:33 AM | I see a google service rep has not responded in over a year to this thread. It now obvious The URL auto-complete is part of google's revenue model, therefore it is not fixable, it is desired by google. Time to move to another browser folks, the tip |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Chromy-uuumm | 11/9/11 10:18 AM | The only reliable way is to go into your chrome\ user data\ default folder and change the PROPERTIES for the following to READ ONLY Archived History Current Session Current Tabs Favicons History History Index (yyyy-mm) History Provider Cache Last Se |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | buck.loner | 11/10/11 1:02 PM | LIke everyone else here I'm completely fed up with google's refusal to allow us to go to the url that we choose and not the urls that they choose for us. And the answers that we do get simply don't work, like unchecking autofill and using a suggestio |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Kodiak UK | 11/11/11 7:43 AM | I agree with raace. Google don't care about what we, the users want. Instead they are happy to ignore our requests and complaints in pursuit of more revenue generated by this browser. Don't get me wrong, I like Chrome. It's fast, it's reliable and it |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nick1984 | 11/18/11 3:04 PM | Man this is sooooo annoying. No matter what options are checked in the settings my Chrome browser STILL comes up with what I've searched for and what websites I have visited. I dont want it to do this. I think most people here agree that say you a |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Kodiak UK | 11/21/11 2:45 PM | Ok, Chrome developers, how about you meet us half way here? I realise that I may be digging my own grave by saying this, as many people here would ultimately prefer to have the whole thing turned off. However, the main gripe that I and many others h |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | shornby | 11/22/11 2:55 PM | Amazing that this thread is nearly THREE YEARS OLD. And still - a tick box exists, and it does nothing. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | shornby | 11/22/11 2:58 PM | I'm complaining about the URL bar list that comes up NO MATTER what settings you change, what startup parameters you use, how much history you delete... no matter what! I guess they REALLY want us to have history pop up in the URL bar. (Now that's w |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | shornby | 11/22/11 3:01 PM | And by the way - this thread started in late Fall 2008, so we're almost THREE years here. At least they didn't mark this debacle "Posts No Longer Allowed". |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lrdg | 11/24/11 4:39 AM | Hello everybody, I found a solution that worked for me. I was having the same exact problem that nick1984 was having except I am the female version.. ha ha no judging! After hours of trying to find a solution, the only thing that worked for me was u |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Nobody Influential | 11/24/11 7:26 PM | lrdg: your "solution" does not address the issue, and it does not work. I have had chrome uninstalled for a long time, and just for kicks, and knowing it probably wouldn't work, I tried your idea multiple times. Here I am typing on chrome right no |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 11/27/11 9:15 PM | Well... looks like some bad news over in the Chromium issue tracker. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=91378 Just received this response to my +1 request to remove autocomplete. Me: "What boggles me to no end is that there is no s |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | KO Gilligan | 11/29/11 1:41 AM | Total Fail on Google's part. All I do is type one letter and it shows an autofill site I accidently Bookmarked while "incognito" from days past. Remove the Bookmark and tried every fix. There's no way to stop it - the fixes are BS. Uninstalling Go |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lietux | 12/10/11 10:33 AM | I don't want to disable auto-completion, I want it to work in a sane way.. Here's a couple of examples on how the current functionality is NOT sane: At random points of time, if I hit backspace while writing an URL, it will not delete the last chara |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | TreeBear | 12/14/11 1:19 PM | I like the fact that the employees who respond are not being helpful but think they are by responding. I even read one in the link below on how they are going to make it LESS FREQUENTLY and not an option to shut it off completely. Golf clap to you gu |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | BJangles | 12/14/11 6:50 PM | I'VE NEVER NEEDED AUTOCOMPLETE!!!!! SERIOUSLY, CAN WE GET ONE PERSON WHO HAS EVER UTILIZED THIS GARBAGE TO COME FORTH? All it does is annoy people when they hit enter. If Google insists on an annoying feature, can't we trade it for something else an |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | foxes | 12/19/11 2:07 PM | NONE OF THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE GOOGLE EMPLOYEES ARE WORKING! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nick1984 | 12/19/11 6:20 PM | @foxes What do you expect. Most Google employees are American. Therefore they have a tendency to not understand. Particularly sarcasm and geography, but it appears here they don't understand THE PROBLEM. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 12/19/11 10:16 PM | Happy belated 3rd birthday thread!!!! You've gotten soo long since I've last seen you. Growing like a weed I say... I remember when you were knee-high to a grasshopper. Now look-atcha. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Aids10 | 12/21/11 4:44 PM | Just installed Chrome for the first time...WOW...was just about to change default browser over from IE9 until I realized the auto-complete was still ON ever after adjusting all options! After reading this 3-year OLD thread the issue is clearly not b |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | elkalous | 12/22/11 12:30 PM | Hi all, I came accross this thread when trying to find out how to disable the autocomplete in crhome. It's so wierd that people try to solve this for so long and Google just doesn't care. For me the most annoying part is that autocomplete is really s |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | randomComment | 12/27/11 11:43 PM | Just one more vote for some way to turn off the omni-present box. After signing up for google apps for business I realized that these apps ( the google ones) work better with Chrome. Then I remember trying every way imaginable/every secret recipe t |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Jemeh | 1/3/12 8:35 PM | Goodbye chrome... |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | supersaiyen0009 | 1/12/12 1:54 AM | Well here is an easy answer Follow these steps and your auto suggestion will not be disabled but it will be deleted permanently 1. type chrome:settings 2. now go to "Under The Hood" tab 3. click on "clear browsing data" 4. in the very first line choo |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 1/12/12 10:15 AM | @supersaiyen0009 Thanks, but that's not going to work for me and for the majority of the people here (if I can speak for you guys) because: 1. I'm not going to manually clear my browsing history every single session 2. This does not fix that fact |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | MindPack | 1/14/12 6:19 AM | Disabling autocomplete would be great, but I'd even be satisfied with just a way to delete URL autocomplete entries that does not involve deleting one's entire browsing history. And yes, I know about shift-del, but I also know that sometimes that wo |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Aids10 | 1/18/12 12:26 PM | In case google actually reads these comments; other bugs- no option for printing just a selection! & no option to open files, just download! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Bucknihilist | 1/23/12 5:30 AM | I swapped over from FireFox about a month ago. Chrome is so much faster. I really thought I was on to a winner. However, if Google are going to treat a 3 year old grievance with this level of contempt I'm back to FF. I'll take slow and private, thank |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 1/23/12 11:03 AM | If this is a reflection of how Google treats it's customers (yes, we are their customers), by basically ignoring a three year old, ongoing thread, than they won't be getting any ad revenue from me or using any of their "innovative" products. Firefox |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | realrek | 1/26/12 1:19 AM | Seriously? I'm searching around and all I can find is this joke of a thread? How can there be no option to disable auto-complete? This has been a standard option on every decent browser for years. I switched to chrome because my firefox stopped worki |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | elkalous | 1/26/12 1:31 AM | Unfortunately, due to this autocomplete disable issue I switched to FF where autocomplete function can be customized as soopafly writes above. I liked Chrome better than FF but autocomplete made it run very slow on my laptop. I hope they improve it s |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | grayfoxxx1120 | 1/29/12 12:14 PM | just wanted to say its pathetic to think google chrome has developer who could not solve such a trivial problem since TWO YEARS at least.. look at when the first post was made switching to another browser |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | macbanan | 2/1/12 8:35 PM | It's obvious now that Google has no intention of ever fixing this problem for whatever reasons. Google employees have answered twice before in this thread, and only said that the code to add a feature to disable it would be too complex for them to im |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | seanism | 2/2/12 10:09 AM | @Sie_Deen There is a 4th issue. Disabling autocomplete in the omnibox which you can't do. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | theSTC | 2/12/12 9:16 AM | This is actually a hilarious thread. The only reason I use chrome is for the autocomplete. Its one of the best features of the browser. If you don't want all your porn searches showing up, use a different browser for that shit. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lietux | 2/12/12 9:26 AM | For me this is definitely not about hiding my porn or anything silly like that. For me the issue is that it autocompletes in-line automagically. Just as an example, maybe an hour ago I wrote "pisg" on the omnibar and hit enter, I soon find myself in |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nankwok | 2/14/12 11:19 PM | STC, you're an idiot. Porno can easily be hidden w/private browsing. Working in a corporate environment with NDA's makes Chrome unusable. Lame, especially when you are an enterprise user of google apps which is Chrome is designed to take advantage |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Anonymous Inc. | 2/22/12 6:04 PM | You know, the things you are saying do not work, but if you clear cache, temporary files, all cookies (you might have to get the app version to do this one, though; Chrome's doesn't work that well :p), and all that, except passwords, then from the be |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 2/29/12 10:47 PM | "Hi Everyone, Thanks for your feedback; as we continue to develop autocomplete, your feedback is helpful. Thanks, Jacky" @JackH Honest question. Is there any movement on this? "This" meaning a three year old thread that is requesting to turn off a |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | laugurinn | 3/1/12 3:29 PM | f this crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Whalecore | 3/2/12 9:51 AM | Jesus christ I'm so fed up with this. If you have an option to disable auto-complete in the regular Google search, why can't you implement that same option to omnibox itself? Because of what kind of idiotic principle are you keeping this feature for |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | None779 | 3/7/12 7:42 AM | options>under the hood>clear browsing data>select in the drop down (obliterate data from: beginning of time). Good luck |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | soopafly | 3/7/12 12:01 PM | @None779: Thanks, but please read the thread. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | totalblackout | 3/14/12 4:47 PM | I can't believe this... O_o Three years of this thread and still no change. This is rediculous! Let us turn off autocomplete already, for the love of everything, let us turn it off already!!! Google, Y U SO EVIL???!! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | sattarsonija | 3/15/12 11:04 AM | I'm going to FireFox till this problem is resolved by Chrome. --Sattar |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Dustinlull | 3/15/12 9:46 PM | I hate how the omnibox tries to guess what you're going to type. Like, if I want to search for the film "Hard Boiled," if I type "Hard Boiled" and hit enter, suddenly it has searched for "hard boiled eggs." Why Google? Does this feature actually bene |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Dustinlull | 3/15/12 10:10 PM | I just found out the information Sie_Deen provided is not true. As Peter Kasting (Google omnibox engineer) says "There will never be an option to disable autocompletion entirely. If in the future we find more cases where autocompletion isn't serving |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | leftbreak | 3/19/12 10:13 PM | I have a cr48 chromebook. It was nice of google to send me one, what, a couple years ago. I had wifi dropping regularly, but finally took it apart and reseated the wifi card, now no wifi drop: but this autocomplete ding in the omnibox is *still* th |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | GrumpyOldGuy | 3/26/12 6:06 PM | I don't know if this has been posted somewhere in the depths of this thread, but I think people should know about this crude almost-solution to the issue: http://superuser.com/questions/326531/removing-past-searches-from-google-chromes-omnibar |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Rtamgo | 4/27/12 8:05 PM | Me too. I just left Firefox 12, but I'll have to return because the auto complete address bar feature is too annoying. I was already using DuckDuckGo to avoid all the adds and distractions on Google search. It pisses me off that these features cannot |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | mc2w | 5/3/12 9:52 AM | If they can't give us an option to turn this 'feature' on/off, can it at least be changed to be tab-based behavior like every other auto-completing software? The auto-complete wastes more of my time than it saves since I have to continually jump in a |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | motmahp | 5/10/12 6:45 AM | Even if Google's in my history, I don't like hitting backspace to get rid of "http://ogle.com" when I type "go." Backspace is for when I make a typing error myself. Don't make me clean up Chrome's mess. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dehen | 5/18/12 2:36 PM | Agreed. This behavior is more often distracting than it is useful. It should be bound to tab, or be offered as an option in the suggestion box and thereby invoked with the arrow keys. It should never be offered as the default input because it breaks |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | TobyTobyToby | 5/24/12 11:42 AM | I can't believe this is still going on! I quit Chrome 6 months ago because I would be using my computer around people and it would keep autofilling embarrassing history to everyone OR just autofilling what I didn't want so I had to delete to get some |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | billyblak | 6/3/12 3:20 PM | This is ridiculous. As soon as I type a character in the addressbar, the whole browser freezes for 2-5 seconds trying to guess what I'm about to type. I don't want this feature. I turned off prediction, why is this still trying to 'predict' from my h |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | limyj88 | 6/9/12 7:49 PM | hi Sie_Deen. it seems to me that you have no idea what's going on at all, and have managed to misunderstand everyone. NON of the solutions you presented has anything to do with the issue here. please take a look here for a more detailed explanation. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | MarkLodato | 7/9/12 11:03 AM | Go to "chrome://flags" and set "Inline HistoryQuickProvider suggestions" to "Prohibited". No more inline autocomplete in your URL bar. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | TobyTobyToby | 7/9/12 12:37 PM | Ok great we are half way there! Just tried this and it worked great. Now, if I could get the drop down suggestions to stop AND OR have it at least stop using my history to make suggestions then this problem would finally solved. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | josequinonesii | 7/11/12 10:41 AM | Should you decide to maintain the omnibox auto-search then that's ok with me as Google is my default search engine. I'll ask simply this. As others have requested with a deep passion, disable the auto-complete feature for URL suggestions. For those o |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Nachytsm | 7/20/12 7:19 AM | I agree with the above poster. I've tried multiple things to disable the predictive search, in just the URL bar. Every suggestion I've found in the forums and those here do nothing to stop it. I switched to Chrome after hearing how much better and ea |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | BaneSixEcho | 7/27/12 12:56 PM | I wanted to go to the Thermos website. I clicked in the omnibar, typed in "thermos" and hit enter. What did I get? Google search results for "thermostat". This happens ALL THE TIME. I don't understand why you're resisting, Google. All we want is an o |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | bernbe01 | 7/31/12 10:07 AM | I could not agree more. Enable the users to make good decisions. By catering to the users who can't figure out how to do a Google search ont heir own, you are pissing off the power users. Who do you think put Chrome on all those less-experienced-user |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | nitiniu | 8/20/12 1:29 PM | I like the idea of automatic suggestions , and I think the suggestions Google gives me are relevant. The problem is that Chrome shoves these suggestions directly down my throat, where I don't want them. When I type something in the omnibar or whateve |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | EKorema | 10/3/12 12:13 AM | The smarter programs become the dumber they act. Mandatory auto-complete is annoying. Once it insisted a phishing site from history while I wanted to visit my bank. 'Delete your history' is just excellent, Google. About as good as 'Format your harddi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | stefan37 | 10/4/12 12:43 PM | Is there any way I can exclude history from showing up in in the address bar? I have already turned prediction off (see attachment). What I want is only bookmarks showing up as suggestions when I am typing in the address bar (as what you can do in Fi |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Kaisirak | 10/8/12 5:11 AM | It's been over 3years now, I think google doesn't give a flying fuck about its userbase. Any way you want to look at it, it's only switching a boolean, and takes quite literally 3sec. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | DonRake | 10/12/12 6:44 PM | It's still doing this. For example, if I search "The Kills youtube", and then later search "The Kills", it will auto-complete and give me the results for "The Kills youtube". As someone else pointed out, it is absurd to think that people search for |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lol man | 10/16/12 8:55 AM | the solution is.. type whatever you want to delete in the omnibox, then the autocomplete will list out that phrase that you want to delete right? mouseover on that phrase and press shift + delete, works like a charm :), i'm sure you've done the whole |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | lol man | 10/16/12 8:59 AM | it's not that google doesn't give a flying fuck, it's just that the solution is to shift + delete whatever autocomplete list out on the omnibox, after you type out a certain phrase. too simple man |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | M DuDu | 10/25/12 8:17 PM | Thank you for this. It is interesting that it requires so many combinations (clearing history + this suggestion + shift+deleting address bar entries + write-protecting key folder) to get one some (but not all) of the people in this thread are lookin |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Chocoboat | 10/29/12 3:37 PM | I was surprised to see that Google would create an Autocomplete "feature" that interferes with searching for the things you actually type in... but I was absolutely shocked to see Google engineers being so dense and illogical in responses to people's |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | riptide_ | 11/23/12 2:28 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | riptide_ | 11/23/12 2:30 AM | The most annoying thing about the inline autocomplete is that is autocompletes the searches (? or ctrl+k). That is tries to suggest stuff below the omnibar when I search is ok, but just don't autocomplete my searches for me. Almost every time I want |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Jordan Martin | 12/15/12 8:37 PM | perfectly worded. I absolutely hate this and it makes me end up doing another second search for the term I want. Latest test was a search for "earth." It autocompleted to "earthlink" This is not helpful in the least bit. I don't want to have to |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Suhail Saadeh | 12/16/12 12:49 AM | In addition to above suggestions, you need to disable/remove Extensions (such as Login extensions) |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Lizette Keith | 12/19/12 5:58 AM | Thank you lol for an easy fix...shift and delete buttons to get rid of autofill...wow...thanks again. How simple was that?! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Vladislav T | 12/29/12 1:34 PM | Sie_Deen wrote on 8/12/11 this in the previous group: "Hi everyone, Thank you for your feedback. We are working hard to address your concerns and improve the autocomplete feature in the Omnibox. We've implemented a fix in Chrome 14 (which is curren |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Jean-Yves H | 1/1/13 9:19 AM | That's it. I'm installing Firefox. Buh bye Google. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | fatpug | 1/8/13 7:16 PM | It's year 2013 now, the problem still persists. Prediction service simply CANNOT be fucking turned off!!!! Seriously Google?! Is it really that hard to fix!!? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dsp4 | 1/17/13 10:53 AM | Chrome's forced autocompletion needs to be fixed. Even Explorer 6.0 had a better implementation. Google's worried about bloating Chrome with too many options, but happily includes largely superfluous functionality such as: - Themes (supporting these |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Vladislav T | 1/17/13 1:11 PM | I agree with dsp4. I've tried so many times to imagine what would be the reason why google linger this decision, and if the main reason is bloating of chrome, that's ridiculous. :( |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | randomUser8 | 1/19/13 12:03 PM | Every couple of months I stop by to see if anything has been done about this ridiculous issue. I am once again I am disappointed. I've seen some work arounds, clarifications, is it auto-fill, search suggestions, history, etc. so just to make this c |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | randomUser8 | 1/19/13 12:06 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | fcrick | 1/20/13 2:27 PM | I made this autohotkey script that corrects the bad behavior, albiet in a pretty odd way Enter:: WinGetActiveStats, Title, Width, Height, X, Y WinGetClass, current, %Title% lookFor := "Chrome_WidgetWin" IfInString, current, %lookFor% { Send ~{Backspa |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Vladislav T | 1/20/13 2:44 PM | Hi fcrick, how to test this script? Using tampermonkey extension maybe? I don't know any other way for this, but to install it through the browser, where the script must be published somewhere. And please check the attachment - is this correct way to |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Jackson_ | 1/25/13 12:58 AM | If the user has typed "something" and pressed enter without looking at the screen, it should ALWAYS enter "something". Not "something I typed earlier", not "something tickets". Typing "something<enter>" and not having "something" searched for is surp |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | limyj88 | 1/26/13 7:52 PM | it has been 4 years and still nothing? i recently saw this and it shows just how stubborn the chrome team is http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=91378 and i've checked the latest chrome canary builds, still the same piece of autocomp |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | limyj88 | 1/27/13 5:15 AM | i've opened a new ticket here http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=172491 in hopes that it might help. but judging by what has happened so far, i doubt it. maybe some of you might like to add your voice too? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Vladislav T | 1/27/13 8:43 AM | Voted, and added the voice. :D |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | pedoro | 2/4/13 8:08 AM | Your description of the issue, particularly the "I'm having problem Y" dissection of earlier issue report comments, totally nails it. That is exacly why I end up going back to Firefox over and over (even though it's slower and fatter). I want to ty |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Ian Gamble | 2/7/13 1:08 PM | It looks like they locked the thread, or I don't know how to use the chromium site. Either way, this issue infuriates me. I have searched for hours for a way to disable autocomplete on the omnibox, to no avail. People misuse the word 'literally' ofte |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Vladislav T | 2/7/13 1:59 PM | On Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:08:12 PM UTC+1, Ian Gamble wrote: ''''''''''''I really don't care at all about what algorithm you think will make it work better, I simply want to disable it. It's not that it works poorly, it's that I don't want it t |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Mr Fett | 2/18/13 6:48 AM | For me the fact that Chrome is ignoring my 'autocomplete="off"' HTML is driving me crazy because the field that it is forcing its auto-suggest list on is actually a dropdown generating field in it's own right (it queries our database for the best res |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | michael yusko III | 2/20/13 10:23 AM | It's amazing how people have no idea how to answer the question you are asking. I've been trying to figure this out for days and there is no answer anywhere. I don't want all the porn I've bookmarked in my autofill. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | 22389832 | 3/3/13 6:45 PM | Does not work |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Matt Kijowski | 3/11/13 8:57 AM | I'm having the same problem. Followed all advice, removed one offending bookmark that may have been triggering the autocomplete, and cleared all of my history. Still when I type "time" into the omnibox it autocompletes to "time warner cable". This |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Matt Kijowski | 3/11/13 9:01 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Vladislav T | 3/11/13 10:11 AM | Definitely google wants to have omnibox acting like this. I would respect that, no problem, google is their property, just if they would tell us honestly such. And if they like, I would like to know what could be the reasons? Money - because in a suc |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | raphael schinköth | 3/18/13 1:45 PM | i just wont work, please fix this, its so freaking annoying! everytime i search for something i have to use backspace because otherwise it will use autocomplete. fucking bullshit! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | fatpug | 3/18/13 2:33 PM | Chrome team has officially responded a while ago saying that there won't be any "fix" for this. They consider this a feature and refused to change anything. Until the Chrome team lead gets fired, we either have to get used to this bullshit or change |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | prizepatrol1 | 3/23/13 12:19 PM | I have posted a solution to this issue at http://rogerbell.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-chrome-removing-predictive-urls.html. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Rosebud123 | 3/29/13 10:22 AM | Could someone who identifies himself/herself as a Google representative please reply when Google intends to fix this OUTRAGEOUS SECURITY DEFECT in its product? I just had ti switch back to using Firefox (reluctantly) because of Google's blatant negli |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dalolerpop pop | 4/1/13 3:55 AM | Do you guys know how to remove something in the browser rockmelt? e.g. i type f it says in higlighted http://facebook.com how do you remove that i type something accidently know someone might see it by typing the first letter please help i really need it im |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Brandon Mason | 4/18/13 3:40 PM | Download Chromium, the open source browser which is the basis for Chrome: http://download-chromium.appspot.com/ Go to settings, advanced, uncheck "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar". Chromium will no |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Philip Greenwood | 4/21/13 3:22 PM | Why in gods name would I want the browser to automatically search for something I already searched for? Please give us the ability to disable autocomplete. l |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Dino Nucci | 5/20/13 5:36 AM | GOOGLE! You are ALREADY doing what EVERYONE WANTS somewhere else ... Go to http://www.google.com, type in the box, watch the suggested sites come up BELOW THE BOX NOT IN THE BOX. That is all we want for the omnibox. That's it.! |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | István Benedek | 6/1/13 8:14 AM | i'm a new chrome user from firefox. omnibox is absolutely ridiculous. WHY is it cannot be disabled?! it's a joke? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Dino Nucci | 6/4/13 4:35 AM | It is no joke. There has to be a nominal value to Google for this. It is the worst. |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | Dino Nucci | 6/4/13 4:37 AM | This was a level 4 response to a problem hundreds are experiencing?? |
| Re: how in God's name can I disable autocomplete? | dewton | 6/8/13 12:13 PM | I have this unchecked and it didn't stop it. |