How To Remove Boxes In Google Chrome
Do you miss having a search box in Chrome and would like to get one back? Then join us as we take a look at the Search Box extension.
Nov 24, 2017 How do I permanently remove those annoying thumbnail boxes on Google Chrome desktop page? Also, I can't type in the search box that is on the dashboard. Choose the browsing data items that you want to delete. Select the box next to each piece of web history that you want to delete. Select as many items as necessary. You can select entire chunks of site data by holding Shift while you click a certain box, then clicking a box further down the list.
Search Box Extension
Once installation is complete you will see your new “Magnifying Glass Toolbar Button” and a message concerning managing your extensions.
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There are three ways to access the options. The first is by right clicking on the “Toolbar Button”.
The second is through the “Chrome Extensions Page”.
The third (and easiest) is in the drop-down window. Here you can see the default setup/look for Search Box.
When you go into the options you will be presented with a default list of search engines. Two of the searches engines start out as disabled but can be enabled with just the click of a mouse. Notice that you can edit the existing search engines and add new ones…you can really personalize Search Box to best suit your needs.
Here is what our search engines list and drop-down window looked like when we finished customizing our engine set.
Search Box in Action
We started off our testing with a search for “Windows 7” using Bing Singapore.
Note: Each time we reopened the drop-down search window Google displayed as the default search engine but we were able to select and use any engine that we desired.
As soon as we clicked on the “Search Button” a new tab was automatically opened with a list of search results as shown here.
For our next test we decided to search for “Windows 7” using the YouTube Search Engine.
Once again we had a new tab open up with a nice set of results for our search term. Very nice…
Our search on YouTube did result in one odd behavior…while we had the YouTube “search page” (and linked YouTube pages opened from it) focused the drop-down window displayed the search URL as shown here. The drop-down search box displayed as normal for any non YouTube pages we focused to the front.
Conclusion
While the Search Box extension may have a small “quirk or two” at the moment we were still well pleased with how it operated. If you have missed the search boxes available in other browsers this is definitely an extension worth trying out.
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Remove auto-complete field entries in Google Chrome
Ok.. so this is embarrassing.
I typed in 'boobs' on EncyclopediaDramatica's search because, well, it's a really funny page.
But now I've got a problem.. EVERY TIME I click a search feild in Chrome now, it shows 'boobs' as the first suggestion in the drop down!
This is not really socially acceptable as this laptop goes with me everywhere and Chrome is my primary browser.
How To Remove Boxes In Google Chrome Mac
Is there a way I can isolate and remove just that one entry?
marked as duplicate by heavyd, Sathyajith Bhat♦, random♦Aug 12 '10 at 23:00
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Linux and Windows
Just highlight it in the dropdown list (using the arrow keys, or your mouse cursor) and press delete on your keyboard.
Note that you may have to press shift+delete in some cases, like if the autocomplete is in the address bar (URL) field.
Mac
Start typing so that the unwanted autocomplete URL comes up.
Hit fn+shift+backspace if you have a compact keyboard or shift+delete ⌦ if you have a keyboard with separate delete ⌦ key (and no fn). If you have a non-Apple keyboard, shift+delete should do the trick.
If it still doesn't work:
Close the page and reload it; it should now be removed from autocomplete;
Check if the unwanted URL is in your bookmarks; once removed from bookmarks, it will disappear from autocomplete.