Here is how to stop your most recent search result from appearing in the address bar.

The issue I am talking about
>When I use to type R into the address bar and press enter I would usually be taken to Reddit. Now if I type R in the address bar and press enter I get taken to the last thing I searched that started with the letter R.

Here is the fix:
>type chrome://flags/ in your address bar

>search for "Omnibox Google Drive Document suggestions" in the search bar on the chrome://flags/ page.

>disable "Omnibox Google Drive Document suggestions"

>relaunch chrome

Edit: If you can, make sure you express your dislike of this to Google. They have removed other flags in the past yet the change that flag presents is still enabled. I would not be surprised to one day see this issue spring back up, but next time there might not be a good solution.

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34 thoughts on “Here is how to stop your most recent search result from appearing in the address bar.”

  1. Just logged in to upvote this.

    This morning I disabled every omnibox option in chrome://flags that made sense to me and so I missed this one xD

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  2. Thank you so much sir! Came to this subreddit only to find a solution to this problem. I wonder why Google implemented it because it seems more of an inconvenience for most people.

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  3. Please note that this flag is due to expire in the next release of chrome 76, this is the incorrect flag for this behaviour, try doing chrome://restart

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  4. Surprised this isn’t more popular, because this change is prettyyy bad. I’ve been alt + deleting pretty much all of my suggestions and it’s been… annoying. Thank you so much!

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  5. THANK GOD there exists a fix, why would anyone even think prioritizing search results would be helpful?

    There is not a single universe in which I would find that to be useful to a single person.

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