Persistent history in search field, how do I delete this?

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These entries were from various sites weeks ago, I’ve cleared all caches, removed all extensions, refreshed, searched on DDG and still see no way to remove this dropdown when I click on this search field. Any suggestions?

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Thank you!

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Hello @SR_Johnson

i know you said you cleared the cache but just to make sure
when you cleared the cache go to
brave://settings/clearBrowserData
then advanced then choose all time then make sure to select passwords and other sign-in data

hope that help and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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Yes, cleared all time most every checkbox for the “advanced” tab.

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could you disable all extension and clear all cache again and see if it show up
cause that very weird

if it still show up let me know

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@SR_Johnson,
Do you see those same suggestions when you enter text into a form field on a website? Or when you search via the address bar?

Because while I see search suggestions in my address bar or in a form field, I do not see those suggestions – or any suggestions – when I go enter text into my password search field.

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So to update, the one thing I hadn’t “cleared” was address/cards and passwords. I just disabled all extensions and cleared the “addresses” as requested above and the data is now gone. So this issue has been resolved.
However, I’m not sure why a “search” field is cross linked to an address autofill, seems like there could be a better management of these forms.

Thank you!

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glad that you figured it out but what address you cleared could you give me the name as it exist in the setting page

thanks and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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I hadn’t cleared the address auto-fill option previously, in this last iteration I also checked the box for address auto-fill. That was the only difference. Also to the previous question I was not getting drop-downs nor auto-fill on any pages that I tried other than the search boxes on Brave settings.

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got it and thanks for the clarifying and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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@SR_Johnson,
Glad you got this resolved. Again, I’m not entirely sure why those Autofill options appear in that particular search – try as I might I’m unable to get them to appear myself, and that’s without clearing any browsing data.

I’ll reach out to a couple of team members to see if we can divine the logic here – if I get an answer I will re-open this thread and respond with that answer. Closing for now however. Thank you again for reporting :slight_smile: