totalcoder.blogg.se - Why does chrome keep deleting my history

Note: If the setting “Include Chrome history and activity from sites, apps, and devices that use Google services” on the Activity controls page is unchecked, you won’t be able to access your Chrome history with this method. In addition to visited web pages, you can also see what keywords you’ve used to search for in the past. The results are similar to your browsing history.

In the Activity controls tab, click Web & App Activity.

Click on Data & personalization in the vertical sidebar.

Let us simply switch off the Auto suggestion feature all together. It’s why this keeps coming up all over the net and Google still doesn’t get it. Everyone around the world has the same issue. I literally can’t do that with the Auto suggestion on. All I want is the first part “Site” this time. Guess what I have to do? Manoeuvre into the bar and delete the auto generated addition. I start typing in the site and guess what gets loaded into the bar? The bloody first “Site/info/subject”suggestion page I visited previous. Next I want to go to same site but not that previous page visited, just the “site”. I go to “site/info/subject” and Google stores it. Stop generating suggestions in the bar that then make you have to go into the bar to delete the suggestion or part of it. One toggle switch, easily implemented as other browsers have. All everyone wants is the simple ability to STOP auto suggestions period. So you get better mouse control to do it BIG DEAL. All the discussed still involves individually removing the already auto generated suggestions.

So sick of pretend control over Googles auto suggestions. Now You: How do you handle suggestions in your browser of choice?

The new user interface option makes the rather hidden option of removing suggestions available to a larger pool of users. The keyboard method works better if you need to remove multiple suggestions that are displayed by Chrome, and it may work better for users who are used to executing tasks from the keyboard. The core difference to using the keyboard is that verification prompt. Selecting "remove" deletes the entry from the browsing history, cancel stops the process and keeps the entry in the history. Chrome displays a confirmation prompt when you select "remove suggestion" from the context menu. The removal option is activated for any suggestion that is pulled from the browsing history. You can right-click on suggestions in Chrome to remove suggestions that the browser displays when you type text in the address bar.

This includes UI cues (like a clock icon for Search History suggestions), as well as user controls to delete personalized suggestions. Improves transparency of and control over omnibox suggestions.