When trying to search something, Chrome automatically opens the first website.

Students search anything, and Chrome opens the first site in the search results. This is preventing students from researching for assignments. Student Chromebooks are Admin Console managed. ChromeOS 134.0.6998.183.

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Admin Console & APIs,ChromeOS

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Tickmc

Apr 1, 2025

Hi Information Technology, Our Lady of Lourdes

This forum is for unmanaged consumer-owned Chromebooks only, I'm afraid.

You need to reach out to your 24/7 free Google Support or Chromebook Partner Support about this.

Moving your post to the Chrome Enterprise help community in case an expert there can offer further advice.

- Mike

Information Technology, Our Lady of Lourdes

Original Poster

Apr 2, 2025

The solution was the Network Prediction setting in “Devices – Chrome – Settings – User & Browser Settings” needed to be set to “Do not predict network actions”. This setting had never been changed from “Allow the user to decide”, so why this setting started misbehaving on its own is a mystery.