How to get google chrome to stop changing the address I enter?

I have a wifi extender, which I'm supposed to access by typing www.miwifiext.net into the address bar.

However, every time I do this, google chrome immediately mistakes it for some kind of search and sends me to another site. http://ww42.miwifiext.net/?kw=emotional+sms

The site will let me look up information on wifi extenders. Great. But I want to change the settings on the wifi extender I have. I can't access them.

How do I get chrome to simply accept the address I've given it?

Brian

Posted 2012-09-25T17:02:38.277

Reputation: 21

1Why not temporarily disconnect your Internet connection? The fact that you can't get to the page though seems to indicate that you are not trying to access the device properly. Why not try temporarily connecting your computer directly to the device, and nothing else. – Zoredache – 2012-09-25T17:10:37.460

My chrome did this the other day. It's never done it before, but when I tried to go to a website, it searched it in google instead. Very odd. – SaintWacko – 2012-09-25T19:50:44.947

Answers

Go to chrome://chrome/settings/ then scroll down and click 'Show Advance Settings' Uncheck Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors.

Recheck the address you are supposed to use, because the URL you are trying to reach looks like a remote address not like the one which is used to access device settings.

Most devices provide some IP address to do this. An example of a common IP address is 192.168.3.1. Refer to the user manual for the exact address of the range extender.

Ankit

Posted 2012-09-25T17:02:38.277

Reputation: 4 082

If you begin your entry with the protocol, such as http:// then Chrome will look up the site listed rather than try it as a query.

Note that if it fails, Chrome may then still try to query the address instead.

That is to say, enter http://site.domain/address rather than site.domain/address in the location bar.

mikebabcock

Posted 2012-09-25T17:02:38.277

Reputation: 1 019

If you're referring to the instant search results, you can turn that off: Pull down the wrench icon, select Settings, then uncheck Enable Instant for faster searching under Search.

If, otoh, you're referring to the way Chrome will attempt to suggest the rest of the URL you intend, the suggestions are coming from your history. You can clear all of them out by clearing the cache: Again pull down the wrench icon, select Tools, then Clear browsing data ... and then clear as much as it takes. But, sorry, I don't know of way to turn it off completely.

Nicole Hamilton

Posted 2012-09-25T17:02:38.277

Reputation: 8 987

Thank you, using "Clear browsing data" stopped Chrome from replacing example.com/page with example.compage – user158037 – 2018-07-03T10:43:47.083