what I've been doing for the last 3 or 5 years (in Firefox, which is the browser under discussion in this submission) is setting the following to false: browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark browser.urlbar.suggest.history it does not literally stop me from typing in for example "news.ycombinator.com", but it makes it so that I have to type every last one of those 20 characters, which lea…
Any idea on how to do this for chrome?
To answer my own question: it doesn't look like you can. But you can delete distracting websites from the omnibar on a one-by-one basis with Shift+Delete.