Manifest Keys The following keys must be declared in the manifest to use this API. Omnibox is Chrome’s combined search and address bar feature, which allows you to use the address bar as a search bar Type a search term in the address box (Omnibox) and press enter to see results from your default search engine. Now as chrome have no access to save temporary history at our hard disk it still records search history in ~/. The omnibox API allows you to register a keyword with Google Chromes address bar, which is also known as the omnibox. Internet Omnibox is a prominent feature of Google’s Chrome Browser. , but before that you should make sure that you've deleted the history on your chrome browser from the browser itself not deleting this file,this would prevent suggestions based on your history from the any previous sessions ,but no from the current one as i assume it's saved in the ram As for Chrome’s powerful Omnibox, the intelligent location bar at the top of the browser that lets you type in URLs or search terms, data collection is still actively taking. When the user enters your extension's keyword, the user starts interacting solely with your extension.
The following keys must be declared in the manifest to use this API. You should change the permissions for the The omnibox API allows you to register a keyword with Google Chrome's address bar, which is also known as the omnibox. (google-chrome / google-chrome-unstable / chromium) : path depends on your verison My crowdsourced settings to merely disable suggestion at chrome addressbar (on linux) :