Google suggestions in Address Bar??

[gryzor]

Erm... oops, that's what happens when you try things at 6am and before coffee Apologies for the noobness.

So, it kind of works; in that it gives suggestions, but the very same suggestions for any query I try. It's always four suggestions for sites and one popular search...

[Ayespy]

@gryzor Do you have typed history and bookmarks autocomplete enabled? I get the five google suggestions, plus typed history and bookmarks.

[gryzor]

Yes, I do have them enabled. Just to be clear, by "suggestions" I mean suggestions based on what I type. Do you mean something else?

[Ayespy]

@gryzor No. You should be getting five suggestions, plus whatever else you have enabled.

[Zalex108]

I've faced the same result:

"No suggestions"

Tested on Stable - Clean profile

[Ayespy]

@zalex108 Read the directions above on how to make suggestions available.

[gryzor]

Forgot to say, using 1.16.1230.3. Tomorrow I'm going to try at the office PC as well. For now, I'm only getting the same (always) five 'suggestions' .

Interestingly (or less so), all of them begin with 's' -ohhhh let me check!

Yeah, indeed. the url you posted may say "...=%s", but the underlying URL is "...=%25s".

Yup, that did it: https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=%s

Woo-hoo!

Thanks, @Ayespy !!!

[Zalex108]

@ayespy said in Google suggestions in Address Bar??:

@zalex108 Read the directions above on how to make suggestions available.

Ok,
Tested on Dev it works.
Tested on Stable does not.

I'll check if it should as well.

[Ayespy]

@zalex108 You have to make sure that you have suggestions and autocomplete enabled in the address bar and the search bar in Settings in the first place.

[Zalex108]

@ayespy

Sorry!

This was unchecked on Stable.

Thank you!!

[AlbornozDamme]

Dear @Ayespy , it is strange, I followed your instructions but I'm getting the same search suggestions over and over, does not matter what I type. Has never happened before.

Do you know what could be happening here?

[AlbornozDamme]

My settings right now:

1st: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
2nd: https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=%25s (with the 25)

[Ayespy]

@AlbornozDamme Hmm. Curious. Can't reproduce that. Do you use any extensions? Do you block any cookies?

[AlbornozDamme]

@Ayespy Thank you for your time.

Currently only using 1 extension, Tab Session Manager. At the moment of the screenshot, I was not blocking anything, you made me remember and so I changed the setting to Block trackers and ads by default. Closed the browser and reopened it just in case, still the same situation.

[Ayespy]

@AlbornozDamme Weird. I just don't know how that could happen.

[Ice007]

The correct search string for Google is: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s

(if that helps?)

[Pathduck]

@AlbornozDamme The problem is most likely that you copy+pasted the encoded URL from the forum. The percent sign is actually encoded as %25 which is confusing. And then when it fails to use the URL it will use cached suggestions from previous searches for some reason (likely a bug).

People should learn that if they want to put URLs containing special chars for copy+paste into the forum, they need to put it in code blocks
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=%s

[Ice007]

@Pathduck Nice reminder. But why? I see a different:
If I put in the link, you only need right klick > copy & paste

[Pathduck]

@Ice007 If you right-click -> Copy link address, you will copy the encoded address, which is probably what the user did here.

<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=%s</a>

Notice that the href is different than the actual text?

[AlbornozDamme]

@Pathduck Yep, this solved it. Thank you for your time and the lesson.