G+ Got An Edge?, Calling NON-Facebook users! Options

[ruciz]

So I open up Chrome in Windows. I have been using windows a lot lately rather than my loved Unix distro.
So in chrome, I select the address bar and I type :

www

in the drop-down bar, www.facebook.com is an option. So I think to myself, and reboot the computer into my linux distro - with Chrome installed, that ONLY I use.. Then I lLoad up chrome. I type www, and guess what?

I also get www.facebook.com as an option

This is neat an all, but I don't have a facebook account. Why does chrome give me this as an option, always?

Firefox don't do this to me. It gives me the sites I visit most often.... Does Chrome WANT you to visit www.facebook.com for some reason? Maybe so Google can see what you do there? Tin-Hat going on!

[lordvader129]

its probably just taking the global most frequently used or searched site and suggesting it, theres probably a setting for it to use your own history somewhere

[ruciz]

I looked around in the settings as my browser is very 'default'. Chrome is simple however and theres not a lot of options that are there to change. I don't see much in the way of altering the 'omnibox'
Firefox is set to the default with Location Bar of: History and Bookmarks.

Not sure what the omnibox searches, but it don't seem to be my history or bookmarks, yet sites I visit often come up with a keypress. Pressing f don't get any link to facebook, but www does. Strange.

This post has been edited by ruciz: Oct 18 2011, 04:30 AM

[StrictPuppet]

In Chrome
......wrench icon
.....options
......under the bonnet,
uncheck "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" and it will turn that off

I suspect that most people that type www, go to facebook, which kinda goes to show you....... nah I won't even get into it.

[hamwbone]

......under the bonnet

Please tell me it doesn't really say "bonnet" there.....

IT'S A HOOD!!$*&$$$

UNDER THE HOOD!!!





This post has been edited by hamwbone: Oct 19 2011, 05:06 AM

[StrictPuppet]

I dont know... I just assumed they all said that, somehow I ended up with a UK version of chrome?

I have been running it since its initial beta release, which it just keeps updated on its own. I can't say I ever noticed when it changed on me, maybe I will just change it to the french version instead.

At least I said wrench instead of spanner