Chrome search history not fully cleared - google-chrome

I am encountering a really strange behavior with Google Chrome.
In the Google Chrome Address Bar (where you can type in search term or URL), it will remember the history of the search and pages. However, when I run a "clear all history." It cleared almost everything except a few URLs and a few searches. This makes those few histories in the address bar "undeletable".
Since it is synchronizing this across my devices as well, the undeletable entries (less than 6 entries) also appear in my mobile phone Chrome as well.
Here's what I've done (with my Google Account logged in using Chrome)
Clear history in Chrome with time range All time and select Browsing history & Cookies and other site data
Go to myactivity.google.com/myactivity and click on Delete activity by and choose All time, and for products, I only checked Chrome, Search.
Restart the browser
At this point, when I type something into the Chrome address bar, the undeletable entry still shows up.
Any idea what am I missing?
This shouldn't be this difficult, but I couldn't figure it out and did a lot of searches online, cannot really find a solution to this.
Any help will be fantastic!

OK,
I figured it out. I'll leave my answer here so other people who encounter this similar problem know what's going on.
Basically, the Google Chrome address bar will auto-complete history AND any bookmark that you have.
So that means when I clear all "history" (which it did clear successfully), but if I have it in my bookmark, it will still show up in the address bar auto-complete option.
So regardless of how many times you clear history (which once is enough), as long as you have it "bookmarked", it will show up. There's no easy way to tell if the suggestion is a "bookmark" or a "history".
If you are in the same situation, I hope this answer will help you.
Thank you!

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How to make a website searchable by chrome?

Didn't know how to phrase my question but I'll try to explain it here.
Have you seen how you can start typing a website URL in chrome's then hit [TAB] and then chrome's URL bar will jump into a searchy status?
For example, type 'facebook.com' in your address bar, then hit [TAB]. what you type in now will be searched for inside facebook.
What does facebook have to have for it to work?
So the thing youre talking about is called omnibox, and here's a link to a similar question which includes loads of detailed answers: How to add google chrome omnibox-search support for your site?
Hope this helps.
Edit: For those reading wondering why they can't replicate the facebook example given in the question, omnibox doesnt always work for everyone, its always been iffy on my work computer but works perfectly at home, I believe its something to do with the browser settings (official advice is just to reset them and try again!)

Chrome extension taken down under "single purpose Chrome extensions policy"

I have made a chrome extension with the name Newsprompt : Personal Breaking News(gcajgpbafhkbkdpbaaipjoiajnangjhp) is recently being taken down stating that it breaks "single purpose Chrome extensions policy". It shows the breaking news in new tab and keep learning about user preference to push the articles(not news) user is interested in. No adds, no hidden functionality. That is all the extension does. Since it has been taken down, I have constantly been following up with
chromewebstore-dev-support#google.com and removed a lot of features (personalization being one of them) but all they come back with exactly same copy pasted lines from the docs https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/single_purpose that it doesn't comply with their standards. It feels like talking to a bot whose only response is "it doesn't comply with standards". So my question being:
1. Has any developers faced the same issue? (I have seen a couple of developers complaining on google groups but no one getting a solution). If yes how did they solved/escalated the problem (It felt like wasting 6 months of my team's effort for nothing).
2. I have tried https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/developer_support but no response.
3. Any further leads will be appreciated.

Hyperlinks (to Sharepoint) in MS-Access tables not behaving as expected

Hello StackOverflow community,
I've just started having an issue with hyperlinks stored within an MS-Access table not behaving as expected.
I have a small database which, among other things, records links to documents hosted on a company Sharepoint site. Until a few days ago, all was working fine with both the database and the hyperlinks.
For some reason, within the last few days, whenever I (or any of my users) click on these hyperlinks through an Access form (or me clicking directly from the tables), I am getting strange behavior:
Clicking the link does open a new instance of the default browser, as desired. And that browser does navigate to the company Sharepoint site. But none of the links actually open the specific document that they are intended to point to.
Instead, all links are bringing up a general file/folder menu within the Sharepoint site. It is almost as if these links point to a non-existent file within an existing folder.
The very strange part is, if I "edit" any of the hyperlinks in my database, and simply select and copy the "address" text from within the edit hyperlink window, I will always immediately pull up the correct desired document if just paste the address directly into a new browser window.
I would have thought that this type of cutting/pasting would necessarily be equivalent to simply clicking the link. But that is obviously not the case.
I feel like I can safely rule out the possibility that any changes to the Sharepoint site itself would be causing my issue with simply clicking the links (otherwise cutting/pasting the addresses would not bring up the correct documents), but I have to admit I am simply stumped as to why just clicking the hyperlinks directly used to work, but no longer does.
I don't believe there is any code or other relevant information that might be helpful that I am neglecting to include, but would be eager to provide any clarifications/etc if anyone has any idea as to what might be happening here.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions!
~JQN
EDIT: I had deleted this question because the issue described above had simply stopped happening. I was unable to explain why, but was also unable to reproduce the issue again after a certain point within a day or two of making the original post.
Since then, the issue has returned. I've been able determine the following:
As described in my note below, when I am getting this odd link behavior, I do NOT get the standard warning from MS-Access indicating that hyperlinks may be harmful, etc.
Strangely, simply opening up a file dialog/file picker and then navigating through that dialog to any location on the (sync'ed) Sharepoint site seems to make the problem go away. I do not need to actually select or open any location on Sharepoint, simply navigating within the sync'ed folder structure seems to do the trick.
Once this happens, all links behave as intended again (ie. they open the correct linked file directly instead of landing on the root folder page). They MS-Access hyperlink warning returns as well. The file/link behavior will remain in that state for several days. Only after, I'd estimate, a week or more of inactivity since the file dialog was last run will the issue return.
FURTHER EDIT: New update...Enough time has passed so that the issue is recurring again. As suspected, links to pages outside of Sharepoint are not affected, and open as expected without issue. Once again, the standard Microsoft hyperlink warning dialog is not coming up for any links.
Obviously, now that I've found the work-around with the file dialog, it's easy enough for me to fix the issue when it arises. I'm hoping that this rings a bell with somebody, though, and perhaps one of you could point me in the right direction for a more complete fix for my users.
Thanks again for any help with this!
YET ANOTHER EDIT: Ok....based upon all the things I've learned in the last couple of weeks (as captured in this post and the comments below), I was about to delete this question and re-post it as "Why is Sharepoint redirecting my URL requests from MS-Access?" As I tried to search the forum to make sure that that question hasnt already been asked, I stumbled across some info that I think gets at the underlying issue:
It looks like this is related to the (very opaque) way that Office processes URL requests. It apparently doesn't simply open the document at the specified link, it first "pre-tests" (I suppose that's the right word) the URL by sending a "Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery" request first.
Apparently, it is possible for Sharepoint to somehow not like the particulars of that MOPD request, and if that happens, then Sharepoint redirects to the file directory page -- and that directory page ends up being opened in the browser instead of the intended link/document.
Again, this only happens sometimes and not others. When it does happen, I've found a clumsy workaround that will correct the issue for about a week or so. I can't reproduce the issue during that week, I just have to wait for the workaround to expire (I obviously don't fully understand why my clumsy workaround works).
It doesn't seem possible to manipulate the particulars of the MOPD request. If possible, I'd love to be able to dispense with MOPD entirely, since I want all the files I'm linking to via Access to be opened as read-only anyway. Unfortunately, I don't think that that is possible either.
I've found some info on this in another SO thread HERE. I still am not quite at the point where I feel I'm ready to submit an answer to this question, but I have some ideas as to what sorts of things may function as an acceptable workaround.
It would be helpful if anyone had any ideas as to how I might be able to reproduce the issue on demand, rather than simply waiting another week for whatever keys/cookies/settings/etc to expire again. I'd need to implement any possible solutions entirely on the Access side of things if possible, rather than on the Sharepoint/server side. Thanks again for any suggestions!
I'm posting this as an answer now, but will avoid accepting it until I've had a chance to verify that it actually works.
I am inserting some code that will run on DB startup. It will open a (an invisible) form that has an Access WebBrowser control included. I'll have that control navigate to a specific file on the Sharepoint site. I believe that it is actually this action that somehow causes the link problems to resolve for a week of so.
This form will run silently in the background, navigate to the sharepoint file location, and then close. This should hopefully refresh whatever characteristics of the MODP request that are present when the links work properly (and are absent while they aren't working properly).
In essence, I'm hoping this approach will have the effect of resetting my (approximately) one week window of desired link functionality to start anew each time the database is opened. In other words, I'm thinking that this will work, although I still don't fully understand why.
Wish me luck!
;)

Chrome console keeps getting stuck in a quirky state

The console gets stuck in a state where every two page refreshes a new closed instance of my indexedDB is displayed. They are all closed except for the one on the top and everything within the application still seems to function normally, however other strange things occur when using the console.
When I click on a table within the database it shows the data, but when I try to filter or go to the next page it all disappears. I have to completely close the browser tab and then reload.
Sometimes when I enter in console commands they don't do anything, don't return anything (not even undefined), but when I refresh the page it alternative between working and not working.
Let me know if you need some more information. I haven't a clue what's causing this. I'm using the latest version of Chrome 35. Any thoughts?
Saw this once. Try a fresh install, and if that does not work, try upgrading to dev channel 37. I did both those things (for other reasons), but have not been able to reproduce the bug since. Trudging through Chromium's list of open issues or changes might also help.
Also, it looks like your question is not really about programming so it might be closed. There are other 'something.overflow' sites to post this type question.
Edit: also, regarding the disappearing issue, I actually reported this bug on Chromium. It was recently fixed!

Major Bug in Today's Chrome Update - 1000's of Web pages Display Improperly

Starting this afternoon, with the introduction of Chrome 31.0.1650.48, many web pages are displaying with random formatting errors. I've confirmed this on both Mac and Windows machines running the most recent auto-updated Chrome release (31.0.1650.48).
This problem is affecting thousands of pages, and to immediately rule out our server generating different information, you can try this to reproduce the problem:
Visit this Google cache page with Chrome version specified above: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nt70v_rn5BwJ:alaskanmalamute.rescueme.org/Idaho+&cd=61&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Notice what dogs are displayed and where they are.
Reload the page several times and observer closely.
You will randomly see one dog listing in the middle of the page, then two dog listings, the dogs move around, the menus around the dogs move around. Each time the page is reloaded Google is corrupting the source code in different ways, resulting in major formatting issues. (NONE of this code is generated outside of Google's cache.) All the pages on the www.RescueMe.Org have this problem, I'm using a cached page on Google's server in this article for an example since it proves it is not a server issue.
This sample page should remain the same every time, and be formatted correctly. It isn't.
Google Chrome (when viewing source) seems to be making random changes to the page (Chrome is dropping < or > at random places in source code) causing major display formatting issues.
Can someone reproduce this? Hopefully the folks at Google know about this issue, or someone here can escalate it with them?
Best wishes,
Jeff
can confirm - it seems to mostly be an issue with iFrames.
VisualForce iFrames in Salesforce break the entire layout.
Version 31.0.1650.48 on Mac, all addons removed.
In case someone else runs into this issue, I've narrowed it down somewhat. Chrome/31.0.1650.48 will randomly scramble the placement of tables on a page if the following two things happen:
1) You start the page like this: and do the reverse at the end: (doesn't have to be face=arial, any font setting or even just does the same thing).
2) Include some tags within the page containing various tables.
3) Magic! (not good magic, though) Each time your tables will randomly move about the page. Here's an example to try: http://server1c.rescueme.org/testb (Reload this page several times in in Chrome/31.0.1650.48 on Windows or Mac to see the tables jump around.)
THE SOLUTION: Start the page like this instead: and do the reverse at the end: (in other words, reverse placement of the center and font tags). Here's the "fixed" version of the page above with just those tags reversed: http://server1c.rescueme.org/testbfixed
While this is a Chrome bug, I feel this is worth keeping in Stack Overflow because this bug is breaking a lot of major sites, and programmers may want to know how to reprogram their HTML so those who have affected versions of Chrome won't have a confusing experience.
FYI... There are other ways to cause and solve this problem, but I'm trying to present here just the simplest method I found.