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Chrome's Omnibox keeps sites that I most frequently visit - and this is good. However, one of my most visited pages has its URL changed, and I want to remove this from the Chrome Omnibox suggestions, how can I do so ?

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You can do it like this:

  • Use your arrow keys ↑↓ to navigate to the entry.

  • Hold SHIFT and hit the DEL key, release SHIFT.

  • On a Mac, you may have to hit FN while holding SHIFT.

The entry will disappear, but it might show up if you type another set of characters... Repeat it there.

A video demonstration shows how I clean the suggestions for the u character.

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Ah, Shift+Delete! I kept hitting delete and nothing happened! Thanks! – Sathya♦ Sep 16 '10 at 13:33
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Regrettably, this only works for URLs, not for Chrome's autosuggestions, which often clutter the limited number of items in the dropdown (6). – dandv Nov 30 '11 at 10:04
Doesn't work at all in Chrome Dev 18.0.1017.2 dev-m. – David Murdoch Jan 26 at 21:37
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@DavidMurdoch: It's a developer version, what did you expect? – Tom Wijsman Jan 26 at 21:55
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@TomWijsman History is clear (by searching example.com), I don't have any bookmarks/favorites, it isn't in the FVS list (it's the one on a new tab, right?). I think it's a history glitch, something I can't see left in it. However, I don't want to clear the whole history to solve this, sometimes I forget some addresses. It's not that I'm very concerned about this, just wanted to be sure, that I didn't forget to check something obvious. – MyFaJoArCo Feb 11 at 18:40
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Unfortunately, the suggestion by Tom Wijsman does not work for me - the site continues to appear with a clock icon. I found a related question with an answer which fixed it for me, by obliterating the History Provider Cache file, which is located:

Mac OS X

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/

Windows Vista:

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

If you want to keep your other history, you can search the History Provider Cache for the offending sites and remove them.

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However, this does not delete a single entry. Funny, you can do your suggestion by just wiping the history from the settings. Note the keeps sites that I most frequently visit - and this is good. in the question, which I think is also stored in that file. Indeed there is a weird thing going on, that only the globe icons work while the clock icons do not. Try waiting a small bit before hitting Shift + Delete... – Tom Wijsman Mar 17 at 6:42
If I remember correctly removing the History Provider Cache does not obliterate all of your history, which is stored in a separate file "History". The History Provider Cache is just that - a cache. However, you can still search the History Provider Cache and remove only the offending sites. – lid Mar 23 at 9:46
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