I noticed Chrome started to show last six search queries automatically, wth? How to fix this? This the way it was opening before:
Does this help ... https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en You control what’s saved, and you can delete your past searches and activity or turn off Web & App Activity at any time.
It is sending XHR-requests while you are typing something into the search-box. You can see them in the logger of uBlockO. Code: xhr -- https://www.google.com.mx/complete/search?[...] To stop the annoying "auto-completion feature" you can create a filter for this. For example (but you can customize it to your needs, or click on "--" in the logger and with a few mouse clicks you have created it) Code: ||www.google.com.mx/complete/search$xmlhttprequest,domain=google.com.mx,important Now these requests are blocked (at least for this domain) and the feature is now "turned off". Edit (2): The user want to have the autocompletion-feature enabled, so this post is not really a solution for it (because it will be disabled) (#1 "Chrome started to show last six search queries automatically") It seems that some flags need to be disabled: #6
I know this feature and not dislike it. Problem is shown in the first pic up there, when last six searches show up just by opening the page, without typing anything.
Alright, disabling these flags did the trick: Code: chrome://flags/#enable-zero-suggest-redirect-to-chrome chrome://flags/#omnibox-tail-suggestions chrome://flags/#omnibox-entity-suggestions chrome://flags/#new-omnibox-answer-types chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-max-autocomplete-matches I wonder what changed in last Chrome version though, that forces me to disable all of them, even one of them is unacceptable to "mitigate" this undesirable "feature", at least for me. I never ever had to tweak any of those flags before...
This is getting weirder. Today I turned on my PC and laptop, opened Google Chrome and start page was normal, as expected. Then just by chance of curiosity I re-checked those flags again. Guess what, they were back to Default status, not Disabled like I left them yesterday, on both machines. Even more weird, the start page is still normal as usual
I saw the same activity that you posted, but i did nothing to remedy the situation. I assumed that there were settings in myactivity that needed my attention. I changed nothing and the issue corrected itself. I have not seen it return. It may have been a bug that they silently squatted. They can do that.
Thanks, I understand. Yet I'm kind of concerned those flags returned to Default by themselves. Wth? How did they do that? remotely? how?
I think the issue might have been on google's end as it reverted back to normal yesterday & is now not showing the last few searches.
Not really sure of the answer to that, google have a habit of adding, removing & sometimes setting flags back to default in my experience.
I know for a fact that Google update services (gupdate & gupdatem) have both been changed from disabled to either manual or automatic on my 7x64 machines more than a time or two.