Have you ever started typing a URL or search, only to have Chrome autocomplete it with the wrong address or and the wrong search?<\/span><\/p>\n The idea behind autocomplete is good – it’s supposed to help you get where you’re going faster. <\/span><\/p>\n But the best-laid plans of mice and Chrome…<\/span><\/p>\n Let’s say you visit a site. For example, we’ll use GreatSales.com\/socks. And yay! you find all the socks you ever wanted or needed. You buy up a bunch of socks and go on your merry way.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, let’s say later in the day you decide you are in the market for an external hard drive (and GreatSales.com sells them too!). So, you go back to GreatSales.com – and when you start typing GreatSales.com… Chrome thinks you’re looking for socks, so Chrome autocompletes it to GreatSales.com\/socks. <\/span><\/p>\n But you don’t want socks! And it can get frustrating, but your frustration won’t stop Chrome from trying to help you by completing the URL or search.<\/span><\/p>\n Here is an easy way to stop Chrome from predicting URLs and searches.<\/span><\/p>\n In Chrome’s address bar type (or better yet, copy and paste) this:<\/span><\/p>\n chrome:\/\/settings\/syncSetup?search=autocomplete<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And press Enter<\/span><\/p>\n Turn the switch to the right of “Autocomplete searches and URLs” to Off.<\/span><\/p>\n That’s it! Chrome will no longer try to complete what you’re typing when you search or type in a URL. If you decide later you want to Chrome to autocomplete searches and URLs, turn the switch back on.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to Stop Chrome from Autocompleting URLs and Searches Have you ever started typing a URL or search, only to have Chrome autocomplete it with the wrong address or and the wrong search? The idea behind autocomplete is good – it’s supposed to help you get where you’re going faster. But the best-laid plans of mice\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,2574],"tags":[4145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20692,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions\/20692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Turn](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/autocomplete.png\")
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