Chrome has the feature to automatically add search engine when it detects an input field on websites. After using Chrome months, it often resutls a bunch of search engines stayed in the settings. And the setting page does not provide a convinient way to remove them.
Use Don't add custom search engines.
Note that in order to run the script, execute the code in the console of Developer Tool (⌘⌥J).
- Use
export-search-engines.js
to dump the current search engines, generatingbackup.json
. - Optionally use
remove-auto-search-engines.js
to remove the search engines which has more than 6 charcters for keyword frombackup.json
, generatingoutput.json
. - Use
clear-search-engines.js
to remove all current search engines from Chrome. - Import
output.json
back to Chrome.