May 23, 2019

chrome not recognizing my most visited sites

So, as the title says, Chrome doesn't recognize the most visited sites i go onto anymore in the URL bar when i type them. Before i cleared my history (not sure if included cookies/cache) this month everything was as it should be. If i typed "s", for example, soundcloud.com would show up and i could just press enter. Now if i for example search "Soup" once, that is all that is going to show up if i type "s" in the url bar.

Things i have tried:

-manually removing "soup" from my history and then trying again

-resetting my chrome settings to the defaults

-reinstalling chrome

None of these seemed to make a difference.

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Last edited May 31, 2019

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Francisco Aleixo

May 23, 2019

I've come here to ask the same thing. They probably changed the priority of suggestions (i.e. recently searched results come before most visited sites) and I really want to revert this as well since it's really obnoxious. Doing this on google search is obviously fine, but NOT in the browser search bar.

Last edited May 23, 2019

User 6754903412840774548

May 30, 2019

Just started noticing this too. Must be a recent change.
Something I searched for once a week ago now appears before my most frequent website in the address bar's suggestions.

wolf 5071

Original Poster

May 31, 2019

I did find a fix, don't remember where, but what I did was go to chrome://flags, search "omnibox", look for "Omnibox Google Drive Document suggestions" and disable that. That seemed to fix it for me.

Francisco Aleixo

May 31, 2019

Thanks OP, that fixed for me as well!

Conner

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May 31, 2019

Hi Everyone,

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Lagdroid

Jun 1, 2019

okay, for me it was two different settings in the flags

the first one is the one already mentioned, the google drive document suggestions

the other one was "Omnibox tab switch suggestions", although this one was only problematic if you still had whatever you searched open in another tab

why are these settings enabled by default?

Arr Dee

Jun 9, 2019

Honestly, I just changed my search bar to "bing" instead of "google" and now I no longer get my one-time searches.

It's a stupid thing to have to do, but it's a lot easier to not have to deal with "goose", "goose attack", & "goose canada" when I'm just trying to get gmail.

Boniface Maina

Jun 27, 2019

"I did find a fix, don't remember where, but what I did was go to chrome://flags, search "omnibox", look for "Omnibox Google Drive Document suggestions" and disable that. That seemed to fix it for me."

That worked for me. Thank you so much!

Last edited Jun 27, 2019

User 1604944515572059998

Aug 6, 2019

I used those two Omnibox solutions yesterday and they worked - thanks so much!! But this afternoon, it's happened again and when I checked, the flags were still disabled, so now I don't know how to fix it. Anyone else have any ideas?

This ability to instant search as well as going straight to what I use regularly has always been why I preferred Chrome, and now that big selling point isn't working.

Last edited Aug 6, 2019

Jami Steven

Sep 17, 2019

For me this was caused by a setting managed by the network admin in our workplace, under Settings > Search Engine > Advanced:

"Preload pages for faster browsing and searching" was turned off.

Kenneth Terrell

Sep 17, 2019

Well I finally thank I recovered all my junk mail thank god

kyle mcdonald

Dec 17, 2019

this happened months ago to me and disabled it and fixed problem and is now doing it again but is still disabled so have no idea what to do now and is the third time this has happened

Neha Gupta 5166

Jan 29, 2020

This issue started happening to me as well several weeks ago. Any advice on how to fix?