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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug



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Disable auto adding search engines

Reported by yangyu...@gmail.com, Feb 9 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. browse some websites with search
2. type the website domain name and space

What is the expected behavior?
search in Google

What went wrong?
Chrome uses learned "other search engines"

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 55.0.2883.87  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

There should be a clean way to disable this unwanted feature instead of using nasty hacks to break this feature
https://superuser.com/questions/276069/google-chrome-automatically-adding-websites-to-my-list-of-search-engines

 
Labels: Needs-Milestone
Cc: jmukthavaram@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Unable to reproduce the issue on Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7 & Mac 10.12.2 using chrome stable#56.0.2924.87,Canary#58.0.3011.0 & reported version# 55.0.2883.87 as per below steps:
1. Launched chrome
2. Added 'Google URL Shortcut' extension
3. Navigated to different websites like NSE,BSE,Dell etc
4. Navigated to chrome://settings
5. Observe 'Search engines' under 'Search' section
6. ABove URL's are not added in search engines

Please find the attached screencast for reference & let us know if we miss anything to reproduce the issue.
Thanks!!



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Comment 3 by woxxom@gmail.com, Feb 14 2017

The repro steps seem to omit the important detail: you need to use the site's own search a couple of times. This annoying and useless feature was present in Chrome since the very early days of its existence.
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Feb 14 2018

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

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