Google Chrome automatically adding websites to my list of search engines?
Problem
I have noticed that certain websites (e.g. Stack Exchange sites, Dell, etc.) are automatically added to my list of search engines in Google Chrome. They even add a keyboard shortcut to their entry. Here are some examples: Dell: Keyboard -> Dell.com Stack Exchange Web masters: Keyboard -> webmasters.stackexchange.com Reuters: Keyboard -> reuters.com Q1: Is this the default behavior in Chrome? (to let websites add themselves to the list of search engines?) Q2: Is it possible to disable this behavior in Chrome? Note: I'm running the latest version of Chrome: 11.0.696.57 on Windows 7 64, and I only have one extension installed: Google URL shortener.
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Fix for: Google Chrome automatically adding websites to my list of search engines?
This was making me absolutely insane, so I found a hackish, but effective solution to the issue. Chrome stores it's search engines in a simple sqlite3 database. I found that you can create a trigger when chrome goes to add the search engine that causes the database insert statement to be ignored. Note that the search engines are still kept in memory, so they will still show up in the list until the browser is restarted. However you wont have to clear them out all the time, and so if you want to…
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