How to Get Real Google Search Box in Chrome
Do you know what the Google search bar you see when you open a new tab in Google Chrome? Well, this is not a “true” search field. It actually just redirects all activity to your browser’s address bar and doesn’t return any search results on the new tab page. To be honest, this is nothing more than a useless decoration – at least by default.
There’s a hidden setting in Chrome’s flag menu that can turn the search bar on the new tab screen into a legitimate Google search box with auto-complete search results as you type, and it’s pretty easy to enable it. Here’s how (via gHacks ):
- In Google Chrome on your desktop, go to chrome: // flags /
- Find “Real Search Box on New Tab Page” in the search bar,
- Click the dropdown list and select Enabled.
- Close the browser window for the changes to take effect.
- The next time you open Chrome, the search bar on the New Tab page will actually work like a regular search bar.
Please note that this will only work if the Chrome search engine is set to Google. You can check this by going to chrome: // settings / , clicking Search Engine from the menu on the left, then from the dropdown list, set Search Engine Used in Address Bar to Google.