CRX id
lejpfpoaicennngnbmkhgagndoiijjip
lejpfpoaicennngnbmkhgagndoiijjip
Description from extension meta
Chrome automatically adds sites to your search engines list when you visit them, which this extension prevents
Description from store
Chrome automatically adds sites to your list of custom search engines list when you visit them. This extension prevents this behavior.
Code: https://github.com/gkovacs/do-not-automatically-add-other-search-engines
Note that Chrome uses a number of heuristics to add search engines, and while this extension prevents the most common approach, we cannot prevent all of them. Hence, some search engines may still get through. To remove added search engines (in this case, those that contain '.' in the keyword), navigate to chrome://settings/searchEngines and run the following code a few times (via the developer console, Command-Option-J or Ctrl-Shift-J)
for (var x of document.querySelectorAll('.keyword-column')) {
if (x.innerText.indexOf('.') != -1) {
x.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[1].click()
}
}
Latest reviews
- (2021-09-16) Newtomic: I know this is a "stupid" need because the browser should have this option from stock, but here we are. Thanks for this extension. After a while using this extension, maybe for 2 or 3 months the browser still adds some 'search engines'. :-(
Latest issues
- (2018-04-30, v:1.0.1) Oliver: Not working
This extension doesn't seem to work any more.