The term address bar in Google Chrome refers to the Omnibox. you might have noticed that whenever you type something in the Omnibox, Google Chrome starts showing some suggestions. These suggestions are a query feature that appears in the drop-down list and helps you to find the search in shortcut. It basically is derived from your web browsing history, search engine, and the bookmarks saved on your device. Using this important feature, you can easily access the web page you open in a regular way.
However, sometimes it happens you may need to delete any particular suggestion shown by the Chrome browser. In such a case, it would become quite challenging to remove them. To do it, read this article and you will learn an easy way to delete Chrome address bar suggestions using your mouse.
Delete Chrome address bar suggestions with the mouse
In order to delete the Chrome address bar suggestion, follow the below suggestions:
Open the Chrome browser first.
Move to the address bar and type in the following code:
chrome://flags/
Once you’re on the Google Chrome Flags page, you can notice a search box available at the top of the screen.
Using the search field, look for a flag that has the following name:
Omnibox Suggestion Transparency Options
Alternatively, you can use the given text code to open the flag directly:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-suggestion-transparency-options
Look for the flag highlighted in the bright yellow that stays at the top of the list, i.e. Omnibox Suggestion Transparency Options.
This flag has the following description:
Surfaces an X button next to deletable omnibox suggestions. This is to make the suggestion removal feature more discoverable. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
This flag has currently been set to the Default mode. It indicates that the flag is disabled at this time. So, to make it enable, click on the respective drop-down menu and then switch the Default option to Enabled.
And finally, to take effect the changes, click on the Relaunch button.
Delete Chrome address bar suggestions
That’s it. The Omnibox Suggestion Transparency Options is now successfully activated in your Google Chrome browser.
When the browser restarts, type something in the address bar.
If you hover your mouse pointer over the suggestion, you will find that a tiny cross icon comes to appear near it. To remove/delete that suggestion, simply click on the cross icon.
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