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Force Chrome to open URLs as URLs, instead of searching

I'm surprised that I haven't found this question on superuser. Forgive me if it's a duplicate, but how do you disable the search functionality in Google Chrome's address bar?

I want it to be just a straight up address bar. I know the address where I want to go. I don't want to have to click the "did you mean to go to" link all the time when Chrome thinks the word I typed is more likely to be a search term than a server. You'd think putting the http:// in front would help, but I already do this by default anyway and no dice. =/

Thanks!

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You can't disable the search feature of the Omnibox.

You can disable instant search by clicking the wrench > options > basic and unchecking "enable instant."

A possible work around is to create a custom search engine for chrome. Right click in the Omnibox (search bar) and choose Edit search engines. You can create a blank search engine that will always fail by putting "no" "null" and "http://%s" in the Name, Keyword, and URL fields respectively.

If you're trying to point this to a local host, you could potentially use the URL field for this, though I have not tried this, and cannot confirm.

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