Search suggestions are intended to act as a quality of life improvement to browsers.
By attempting to predict your search query, the internet tool tries to save you time.
To do this though, the surfing app needs to monitor everything you pop in in the search bar.
That means that search suggestions can be a serious privacy issue.
If youre concerned about sending your search data like this, you may want to disable search suggestions.
To disable search suggestions in the URL bar, you oughta go into the in-app prefs.
To access these configs, you oughta tap the triple-dot icon in the centre of the bottom bar.
Tap prefs in the top-right corner of the popup pane to fire up the prefs.
This will be the seventh option from the bottom.
Tap Privacy and Security at the top of the Advanced section.
To disable search suggestions simply tap Search and URL suggestions so that the checkbox is unticked.
This option will be the first option in the Privacy and Security parameters page.
Tip: This setting disables both search suggestions and URL predictions.
you might only have neither or both of them.
Untick the Search and URL suggestions checkbox to disable search suggestions.
