URL autocomplete no longer working in Chrome
- by Yuji Tomita
The browser URL autocomplete has started behaving differently starting yesterday.
I used to access my top urls by typing the first one or two letters of a URL then pressing enter. Now, I have to visually fish for the right one and push the down arrow to select the url. Big difference.
Anybody know if I can get the old functionality back somehow? Have I messed a setting?
Example of how my browser used to work:
Gmail.com:
CMD + L
Type G
Enter
Stackoverflow.com
CMD + L
Type S
Enter
Normally, the browser bar would already be highlighted with gmail.com after typing the first g. It would narrow the matches depending on what characters were typed next, or simply go to it if I pressed enter.
UPDATE: I just realized my history tab looks suspicious. No entries
But clearly Chrome is pulling some data from my history, as I have very personalized recommendations when typing in a letter.
UPDATE: Fixed!
Saved my bookmarks, removed my ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Default directory (careful, it looks like absolutely everything is stored here) restarted chrome, and within one visit to Gmail.com, my autocomplete was filling in my URLs like so:
Beautiful.
