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I accidentally visited gist.gihub.com (note the missing t), and now that URL auto completes each time I start typing gist.…. How can I remove this URL?

I've tried removing it from my history, but that doesn't help:

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(note the empty search results)

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Did you remove all the history or just the last entry ? – Ioan Paul Pirau Aug 26 '11 at 21:11
Sry, don't have Chrome, but have you tried pressing [del] while targeting/hovering that entry? – ragnq Aug 26 '11 at 21:12
This question has been asked before, but heres the How to Answer[1]. [1]: superuser.com/questions/326531/… – Keltari Aug 26 '11 at 21:13
Yup, Keltari’s right; removing URLs is the same as removing titles (like in the other question). However, see my addendum to make it easier if you visited a while ago. – Synetech Aug 26 '11 at 21:19
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Well, this seems to be an issue. – Chad Feller Aug 26 '11 at 22:30
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Highlight the item (using your keyboard arrows) and use shift+delete

(Note that on the Mac you seem to need to also press fn, so fn+shift+delete)

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This works. Although it should be mentioned that rather "for example your keyboard", you must use your keyboard. You cannot leave an item highlighted with your mouse, and leaving the mouse-button down will prevent Shift+Delete from deleting. – Ian Boyd Mar 25 at 13:48
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I found a solution.

Highlight the item in the address bar drop-down box by pressing the left mouse button over it, but don't release the mouse button, continue holding it. Then press shift with your other hand, hold it, then take the hand with your mouse up and while keeping the button pressed , press the delete button with your little finger on the right hand.

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Tried, and failed. It deletes the autocompleted portion of the url, but leaves it in the auto-complete history. – Ian Boyd Mar 25 at 13:45
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You’ll need to either remove the offending URL from your history, or use the correct URL enough times to override the other one (ie, make it most-visited).

Removing the bad one is quicker and simpler, so open the History page and click the Edit items… link to the right. Now select the entry with gihub.com and click the Remove selected items… button at the top of the page. (Consider restarting Chrome to be certain that it is using the updated history.)

If you visited it too long ago and cannot find it easily, you may want to use a History-page extension such as History2, History 2, or eHistory to simplify editing the history.

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As I noted in my question (and showed in the picture accompanying the question), I have already removed the offending site from my history. The extensions you listed were not able to find it in my history either. – David Wolever Aug 26 '11 at 22:17
What did you search for? Simplify the search as much as possible, eg: gihub Have you restarted Chrome since you entered the incorrect URL? Did you bookmark the bad URL when you went there? Also, did you try entering the correct one a dozen or so times? – Synetech Aug 26 '11 at 22:24
I searched for gihub.com (as you can see in the screenshot), but searched for gihub and similar also fail in the standard history and the various plugins. Chrome has been restarted. I didn't bookmark the bad URL. – David Wolever Aug 26 '11 at 22:32
Hmm, well it’s drawing that string from somewhere. You could always resort to opening the History* files in a hex-editor, doing a search for the string, then editing it (eg replacing the first character with # or something. Did you try overriding the most-visited by navigating to the correct URL a bunch of times? (Make sure to do so in a new tab each time. I used this method to bump some sites up in the MRU section of the new-tab page.) – Synetech Aug 26 '11 at 22:43
Well, since it can be fixed by clearing the history, it is definitely being drawn from the history, so editing the History files directly would be a relatively easy way to fix it without wiping out the rest of history (which personally, I am loathe to do). – Synetech Aug 27 '11 at 0:08
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