I want my separate search box back. When I knnow the address of a site I’m used to just typing sitename.org and hitting enter, now in chrome it takes me to google first.
Oh wise techies, is there a way around this?
I was using Firefox but the newest version isn’t playing well with one of my work sites, so Chrome it is.
Help?
If you type sitename.org, it should go to sitename.org. Are you pushing Ctrl-K by any chance to get to the omnibar? That forces a search, but otherwise it shouldn’t Google a domain unless it was invalid.
Disabling other omnibar behaviors: How to Disable Omnibox in Chrome?
My Chrome doesn’t do that. If I type in a valid web address, it takes me to that address. If I type in a non-address, it takes me to a Google search.
ETA: I’m replying to the OP, not the first reply which wasn’t there when I typed it!
I haven’t had that experience with Chrome, it is really good at parsing website addresses and taking you straight there. Same with Firefox.
What .org address takes you to Google and not to the site? Note that if you type something like rotary. org (with a space) rather than rotary.org it would take you to search.
Also, if you want to ensure you’ll go to a website start the address with http://, like http://rotary.org
You don’t need to do that. rotary.org takes you to rotary.org…
Yes I know. But I’m just saying that if OP has somehow found a condition where typing something.org doesn’t take you to the site, then http:// would force Chrome to connect directly to the site.
Sometimes in Chrome, I type a site address, and it gives me a search result…with the site at the top. Not often enough that I’ve figured out the triggers - I suspect it might have to do with the auto-completion attempts along the way, and me editing the text before hitting enter.
Most of the time, things just work for me there.
You can also just type a single slash after the name. This normally comes up in the context of intranet sites that don’t have a .com/.org/etc. at the end. In other words, “intranetsite” alone doesn’t work, but “intranetsite/” does. After the first use, though, Chrome seems to remember and no longer needs the slash.
I just installed an earlier version of FireFox and told it not to update itself. I’m using 27. I don’t really like Chrome as well.
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It would be pretty suspicious if it consistently did this for sites that had paid ads display above search results. But Google would *never *do something like that!
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I’ve had it do that: go to search when I wanted the specific address. It might be that this only happens when the specific address is not reachable, and overriding that to get the HTML error is simple as stated above.
I’ve also gone nuts over way-too-eager auto-complete. I don’t remember whether which browsers do it (I use MSIE, Firefox, and Chrome regularly), but some of them autocomplete without my hitting tab or anything, and if what I want is NOT the autocompleted thing, I have to do silly stuff like add a space and then backspace. Drives me nuts! Do what I say, not what you think I meant to say!
The other thing that drives me a bit nuts is that autocomplete works differently in different contexts (not sure whether it’s per-browser or depends on the context in a webpage, etc.) so I tend to forget, do I hit tab, or cursor-down, or do I have to click? I don’t pay attention to the details, but am certain that what works in some cases absolutely does not in others. Sigh. That’s the price for using multiple browsers, but I had little choice when I started down that road.
Yeah, I ended up turning off the autocomplete and it seems to have solved the problem.
Thanks all!