How to turn off chrome's annoying auto-fill?

Question

For example: If I type reddit.com, it autofills it to reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuu I wanted to go to reddit.com, not F7U12 any way to turn this off?

Answer 1

Click on the spanner icon, go to Options, then under "Under the Bonnet" and uncheck:

Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar

Answer 2

Unfortunately, there's no way to turn off autocompletion in Chrome's omnibar.

Theoretically, if you just type reddit.com and press Enter (erasing any additional autocompletion), it should start autocompleting to that. In practice, however, you might have to clear your history to make it go away.

Answer 3

The reason that’s happening is because you visited that page enough times to convince Chrome that you frequent it (at least more than other reddit pages), and so when you type the beginning of the URL, it automatically fills in the rest, assuming that you want to go there again.

You can always just ignore what it fills and continue typing the rest of the URL or press Delete.

Another option is to open your History, click *Edit items…, select the URL in question (perhaps more than one instance), then click Remove selected items. This way, it is removed from your history and so Chrome won’t make assumptions.

(The history-editing function is still not that great in Chrome, so it may be easier if you use a history-enhancing extension like History 2, History2, or Recent History.)

Failing that, you can resort to some hacking. You can use an SQLITE3 tool/editor/browser/manager to edit the history files Archived History and History to remove the URL. This method is not pleasant, but technically, you don’t have to do it correctly, you can simply edit the URL to be something else, and that will still have the desired effect.

Answer 4

1. Click the "Wrench" Icon
2. Choose Options
3. Choose "Under the Hood"
4. Uncheck "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar"