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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Nov 19
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█ krajshree@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Have no way to prevent or manage sites trying to add their own search engines to Chrome

Reported by aj.bar...@gmail.com, Sep 18 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to virtually any website with a search field 
2. Watch "Other search engines" list grow and grow and grow
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
The end user should be able to be able to disallow pages from adding themselves to the list. I have to add an extension to do this. I don't want to have to add **yet another** extension to manage behavior that there should be a simple checkbox in the settings to control. 

What went wrong?
There's no way for me to stop that besides adding yet another extension to fill the gaping hole left by the lack of end user control. I just went through the list and deleted the ones that were in there and deleted ~250 entries.  That's unacceptable. An extra extension that is now consuming resources that really should be unnecessary.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:

Comment 1 by aj.bar...@gmail.com, Sep 18 

Just had a look at chrome://sync-internals/ And it is one of the things that's synced across machines.  So it's unnecessarily using bandwidth too.

Search Engines	5	5		Running	Group UI
This is after I deleted them all except for the ones that I actually want.

Comment 2 by phanindra.mandapaka@chromium.org, Sep 19

Labels: Needs-Triage-M69

Comment 3 by krajshree@chromium.org, Sep 28

Cc: krajshree@chromium.org
Labels: Triaged-ET Needs-Feedback
Unable to reproduce the issue on win-10 using chrome reported version #69.0.3497.100 and latest canary #71.0.3563.0.
Attached a screen cast for reference.

Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue.
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1. Opened chrome and navigated to a website i.e wikipedia.org
2. Navigated to chrome://sync-internals/ and observed no sites trying to add their own search engines to Chrome.

reporter@ - Could you please check the issue on by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persist or not. Also please check the attached screen cast and please let us know if anything missed from our end.

Thanks...!!
885227.mp4
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Comment 4 by kkaluri@chromium.org, Nov 19

Labels: Hotlist-DesktopUIChecked
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
** Mass UI Triage **

We were unable to reproduce this bug. If this bug still reproduces for you, please reopen or file a new issue. 

Thanks!

Comment 5 by aj.bar...@gmail.com, Nov 20 

It wasn't just any site with a search engine on it. It was sites adding their own search engines to chrome via whatever method is available to do that.  I don't remember which ones.  I've had enough of chrome anyways. I've ditched Chrome across my devices and using Firefox now. You're on your own.  And may god have mercy on your soul.
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