If you’re at all like me, you get very annoyed at little things 
The Scenario
Let’s imagine you love to browse with Chrome on your beloved Mac and you frequently visit Facebook. So you type the letters fa in your browser’s address bar and *bam!* the URL auto-completes to read facebook.com.
It truly is a wonderful thing. But sometimes, it’s not so wonderful.
The Problem
Some users are reporting that when you first startup Safari or Chrome on a Mac the browser may take a while to load those auto-complete gems from your history. That’s not good when you’re used to typing fa and rapidly pressing Enter.
Oops! Now you’ve just asked your browser to visit fa (which does not exist) and from this point on facebook.com will show up as the second auto-complete option. Yikes! How do we remove that darn fa entry now showing above the actual entry we want?
There is hope.
The Solution
On a PC everyone seems to have the answer. You simply highlight the entry and press Shift + Delete. But us Mac users have an extra step that no one seems to be talking about.
On a Mac, you need to highlight the entry and then press Fn + Shift + Del. Now, you might need to wait a bit, or restart the browser to see it removed but I found it to work perfectly.
Did this work for you? Let me know in the comments.
Nope, doesn’t work for me. And I can well understand how this frustrated you. I love Chrome, but I think I’ll go back to Firefox on principle. (Well, for this and the fact that I just discovered it taking up 5GB of hard disk space because it archives every old copy whenever it upgrades itself – WTF?) Bah.
Richard, sorry to hear it didn’t work for you. It’s still working for me. Didn’t know about the legacy archiving, where on the system are those folders being stored?
THANKS!! I’ve been looking for this for awhile! A few times I’ve had to be patient for it to take effect, other times, it is fixed immediately. ONE thing I’ve been trying that may/seems to help the situation is begin typing the URL, arrow down to select the one I want to remove, do the shift, fn, delete keystroke then move the arrow to another of the Chrome provided suggestions (preferably the one that is correct) and then hit enter to go that url/search term. That seems to help with the removal of the bad one and sticking the correct one.
it worked perfectly for me!
ahhhhh fn+shift+del ! nice !! worked fine ! thank you very much !!!
Ahh this is perfect! I have been trying to figure this out for ages. Thanks for the tip!
THANKS !
(I needed this for PC and did not know about the Shift+Del thing)
I was pulling my hair out for a few days. This works like a charm. Thanks a bunch. I did find there are some things that cannot be deleted, although I don’t know yet why. I should note that for me it only works if I highlight the item with the mouse (if you scroll down with the keyboard, it will not work).
Glad it worked for you. Thanks, Mickey!