Autocomplete fills specific link in domain instead of root domain

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Across setups and reinstalls I have a persistent problem of brave browser autocompleting “youtu…” to a specific youtube video (the first one I watched) rather than the root domain youtube.com. This is incredibly annoying and I cannot understand how anyone would ever want this feature.

I googled and can only find closed topics and no solutions
(e.g. Typing youtube in address bar gives me a video instead of the website bc of autocomplete - #3 by poppywoopy )

I want brave to autocomplete only to top domains (like any normal browser). How do I accomplish this?

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Hi. I’ll suggest to always be patient. I’ll tag @mattches to assist.

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You can simply remove that specific entry and it will not appear again. Then, when you type “youtu…” it should autofill to the top-level domain.

You can remove the entry by typing in “youtu” in the address bar, then clicking the X next to the entry in the dropdown:

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“Then, when you type “youtu…” it should autofill to the top-level domain”

No, it does not. It just autocompletes to the next youtube video and I have to X through all youtube videos I have ever watched. Just please add a setting to only enable autocompleting for root domains.

And btw am I supposed to do this for every domain I visit? What kind of solution is that?

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@grug1,
Well it certainly shouldn’t be doing that.
On my end, on both macOS and Windows 10 systems, when I start typing Youtube, the first thing suggested to me is just youtube.com and other YT links appear below that.

Can you please tell me what OS you’re using, what version of Brave you’re using and whether or not you have any extensions installed?

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I am using linux (Ubuntu 22) and brave version: Version 1.52.117 Chromium: 114.0.5735.90 (Official Build) (64-bit). I am using extensions “AdBlock — best ad blocker” and “Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos”, and disabling them does not change the behaviour.

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If you go to Settings --> Appearance --> Show autocomplete suggestions in address bar can you tell me which options you have selected here?

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I have enabled all: top sites, browsing history, bookmarks.

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If you disable (uncheck) the Browsing history option, how does this affect the autocomplete results?

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If I disable the Browsing history option it does not autocomplete at all. If I type “youtu…” (or any other site) it performs a google search (of “youtu”) instead of autocompleting.

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brave, you are a company that makes money, not an opensource project. Fix basic errors like this. To this day, everytime i type “yout” it autocorrects me to the same video about a minecraft tree farm, which i havent built for over 6 months.

the steps above do not work to fix the problem. I have found many issues with this same problem, never solved

I am running NixOS with Brave. This may be a linux specific problem, but really it seems to be a “sometimes” but, since this hasnt happened every time i use brave across my machines, though it has happened twice including this time, and doesn’t stop happening until i do a reinstall.

BRAVE FIX YOUR BROWSER!! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR ANY CORPORATE PROGRAM!

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consider this a bump, if my memory permits it i will continue to bump this until it is solved as to never have it “be closed due to inactivity” like the rest of the posts about this problem.

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I will also bump this. For some reason whenever I type my router settings ip adress on a ddwrt router it auto completes with openwrt extension of /cgi-bin/luci/ if I delete it and hit enter it comes back again preventing me from logging in to ddwrt

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I just downloaded Brave browser and I’m loving it, but this is one frustrating aspect that decreases my workflow.

The only option that correctly autocomplete links in the address bar is “Browsing History,” but it is also the least useful one because I rarely want to go anywhere other than the root domain(suggesting YouTube homepage is more useful than a specific video I’ve watched before). For most sites, it works in suggesting the homepage, but I wish it was more consistent by using the other 2 options as priority first:

Enabling Top Sites suggests top sites, but doesn’t fill in the bar as I type–worse, it shows up at the bottom of all suggestions, so I need to shift+tab or tab multiple times to get to the one I want. Most browsers I’ve used fills in the most popular site as I am typing when I have this turned on.

Enabling Bookmarks does the same thing as Top Sites, but worse, since it only starts suggesting bookmarks once I have entered at least 3 characters.

Ideally I’d want to change the priority of address bar url autocompletion to bookmarks > top sites > history. But at the very least, having Top Sites or Bookmarks autocompletion actually working should be a priority.

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So I was having this issue but noticed some sites like youtube were fine, but twitch.tv wasn’t working it would show up in a specific streamer like twitch.tv/streamername and if I deleted that URL, the next streamer would show up

So I just deleted all the twitch stuff like history, cookies, cache, local storage, etc. and after visiting twitch again now it works I can type in “twitc” and twitch.tv shows up, and streamer names are the second option

Hopefully this helps someone else who’s having the same issue. I’ve had this problem for years across all my sync’d devices (Windows, Mac, Linux) my guess is at some point some bug broke it and corrupted the browser data, but I bet fresh installations don’t have this issue