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You know when you type something into the address bar, and it comes up with suggestions and sites you have visited, is there any way to delete those?

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  • http://superuser.com/questions/328515/chrome-remove-url-from-autocomplete-which-doesnt-show-up-in-history – undo May 14 '16 at 07:33

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Highlight the entry and:

  • Shift+Delete on a PC
  • Shift+FN+Delete a Mac

To disable autocomplete in general

  • open the Chrome Settings
  • Show advanced settings (at the bottom)
  • Under Privacy, uncheck
    • "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar."
    • use a prediction service to load pages more quickly

The completions will still appear as dropdown items and you can arrow down to select them - if you want to, but they won't be automatically applied.

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    Or if you have a mac laptop without a delete button: shift + fn + backspace. – Matt Jul 22 '17 at 12:46
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    For those with no "function" key on their keyboard attached to a mac, it's "shirt + delete" (oddly). – rogerdpack Sep 12 '17 at 15:22
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    Confusingly, highlighting just with the mouse cursor doesn’t work! Needs to be by keyboard. I suggested an edit to address this. – Aaron Thoma Sep 04 '18 at 13:11
  • @Matt I came here with a question that you answered: "What about the 70% of mac keyboards that don't have a freakin delete key?". Good job on Apple picking something so obnoxious :/ Thanks for the answer though -- +1! – SidOfc Sep 14 '18 at 09:26
  • Why in hell does the mac version not show up everywhere? Took me way too long to find this solution. – whenitrains Mar 27 '20 at 14:52
  • Does this still work? I'm using Chrome on Windows, and shift-delete *does* temporarily remove the suggestion from the autocomplete list, but if I type the same characters again, the suggestion reappears. The site is neither in my history nor in my bookmarks. – hypehuman Feb 04 '21 at 13:34
  • The mac instructions here are incorrect: the answer is "shift + delete" just like on the PC, it's just that on some keyboards pressing delete may require pressing the Fn key. But if your keyboard has an actual delete key (note I mean the old-school delete key, _not_ backspace) then the answer is just "shift + delete". – jacobsa Aug 24 '21 at 04:14
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Chances are you have the site bookmarked

Enter the site so as it does show up in your browser history. Then go into your history, you'll probably see a star at the end of the url in the history page. Click on that and it'll remove it from bookmarks, then you can delete the site normally.

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On linux (ubuntu) with chrome: while starting typing and then having specific item highlighted as suggestion: Crtl + Shift + Delete

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You can do it by removing them from Chrome history:

  • presss CTRL+H or just navigate to chrome://history
  • look for the items you want to remove (you can even use the search box at the top right) and check the box next to them
  • click "Remove selected items"
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Easiest solution is to hit the delete button when you see the suggestion- that will delete that particular site alone from history. If you want to delete all, clear your browsing history. Best solution would be using the browser in private mode when you don't want that for few sites alone. Permanent solution would be changing the privacy settings in your browser.

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