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June 9
[edit]Google Chrome autofill suggestions
[edit]Hello!
Can someone tell me where are the Google Chrome omnibox autofill/autocomplete suggestions stored as a database file in Windows?
I thought they would be on C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Shortcuts but after deleting some entries from there for testing purposes I quickly noticed those words still showed up as suggestions on the omnibox with the little clock on the left side of them suggesting they still lived somewhere on a specific file. - Klein Muçi (talk) 22:25, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- It's stored in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data", you can open it with an SQLite browser/opener. Look under the 'autofill' table. WhoAteMyButter (📨talk│📝contribs) 23:02, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- @WhoAteMyButter, I did but it is not. :/ I find none of the current suggestions I get in the omnibox in there. - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:24, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- They might not be stored. If they are, they might be in a cache somewhere else. Autofill suggestions could be extrapolated from your history. WhoAteMyButter (📨talk│📝contribs) 23:33, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- @WhoAteMyButter, maybe they get extrapolated from the history of other devices using the same Google Chrome account somehow? I'm sure they are not extrapolated from the history on the current device as that was the first thing I looked upon - made sure to clear the correlated browsing data from the in-browser application and from the db itself using SQLite browser. - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:38, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- I must say though that I've set the history on the current device to not synchronize with the other devices (even though the opposite is true - the other devices are being synchronized with the history of the said device). - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:40, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- @WhoAteMyButter, maybe they get extrapolated from the history of other devices using the same Google Chrome account somehow? I'm sure they are not extrapolated from the history on the current device as that was the first thing I looked upon - made sure to clear the correlated browsing data from the in-browser application and from the db itself using SQLite browser. - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:38, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- They might not be stored. If they are, they might be in a cache somewhere else. Autofill suggestions could be extrapolated from your history. WhoAteMyButter (📨talk│📝contribs) 23:33, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- @WhoAteMyButter, I did but it is not. :/ I find none of the current suggestions I get in the omnibox in there. - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:24, 9 June 2022 (UTC)