Chrome – Google Chrome automatically adding websites to the list of search engines

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I have noticed that certain websites (e.g. Stack Exchange sites, Dell, etc.) are automatically added to my list of search engines in Google Chrome.

They even add a keyboard shortcut to their entry. Here are some examples:

  • Dell: Keyboard -> Dell.com
  • Stack Exchange Web masters: Keyboard -> webmasters.stackexchange.com
  • Reuters: Keyboard -> reuters.com

Q1: Is this the default behavior in Chrome? (to let websites add themselves to the list of search engines?)

Q2: Is it possible to disable this behavior in Chrome?

Note: I'm running the latest version of Chrome: 11.0.696.57 on Windows 7 64, and I only have one extension installed: Google URL shortener.

Best Answer

Thanks to @10basetom's code and inspired by @shthed, I've released the Don't add custom search engines Chrome extension which does just that.

You'll find the source code here.

Let me know what you think!

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