Seeing Unwanted Search Suggestions in Address Bar

sakusaku · April 3, 2025, 8:25am

This has been fixed in Beta and Nightly.

github.com/brave/brave-core

[Omnibox]: Hide OnDeviceHeadProvider suggestions when top suggestion are disabled

master ← disable-local-suggestions

opened 09:21PM - 11 Mar 25 UTC

fallaciousreasoning

+185 -28

Resolves https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44592 ## Submitter… Checklist: - [ ] I confirm that no [security/privacy review is needed](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-reviews) and no other type of reviews are needed, or that I have [requested](https://github.com/brave/reviews/issues/new/choose) them - [ ] There is a [ticket](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues) for my issue - [ ] Used Github [auto-closing keywords](https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue) in the PR description above - [ ] Wrote a good [PR/commit description](https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/cl-descriptions.html) - [ ] Squashed any review feedback or "fixup" commits before merge, so that history is a record of what happened in the repo, not your PR - [ ] Added appropriate labels (`QA/Yes` or `QA/No`; `release-notes/include` or `release-notes/exclude`; `OS/...`) to the associated issue - [ ] Checked the PR locally: * `npm run test -- brave_browser_tests`, `npm run test -- brave_unit_tests` [wiki](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Tests) * `npm run presubmit` [wiki](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Presubmit-checks), `npm run gn_check`, `npm run tslint` - [ ] Ran `git rebase master` (if needed) ## Reviewer Checklist: - [ ] A security review [is not needed](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-reviews), or a link to one is included in the PR description - [ ] New files have MPL-2.0 license header - [ ] Adequate test coverage exists to prevent regressions - [ ] Major classes, functions and non-trivial code blocks are well-commented - [ ] Changes in component dependencies are properly reflected in `gn` - [ ] Code follows the [style guide](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/styleguide/c++/c++.md) - [ ] Test plan is specified in PR before merging ## After-merge Checklist: - [ ] The associated issue milestone is set to the smallest version that the changes has landed on - [ ] All relevant documentation has been updated, for instance: - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove) - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected-URLs - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-Protections - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave%E2%80%99s-Use-of-Referral-Codes - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Web-Compatibility-Exceptions-in-Brave - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/QA-Guide - [ ] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/P3A ## Test Plan:

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