Chrome 'Ask anything' box

[Ozei]

Does anyone know how to get rid of Chrome's intensely annoying 'Ask anything' box. It's too big and is always obscuring whatever it is you're trying to read.

I've tried a few methods but none of them worked.


See what I mean.

 

[Ozei]

PS. Some folk suggest using the uBlock Origin add-in but it seems they've removed the element zapper (which would have worked).

 

[gramps]

Can't you ask 'the box'?

 

[Bodian]

 

[Ozei]

Can't you ask 'the box'?

How droll

 

[Ozei]

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I've done that before, with my mobile phone (chucked it across the room)

 

[hunnymonster]

Try this go to chrome://flags/ and DISABLE the following:

lens-overlay-optimization-filter
(removes the annoying "Ask Google" button from the search bar)

lens-overlay-non-blocking-privacy-notice
(removes AI suggestions after right-clicking to search with Google lens)

omnibox-contextual-suggestions
(removes "Ask Google About this Page" when the search bar is selected)

omnibox-contextual-search-on-focus-suggestions

 

[Ozei]

Yes, that works for the search bar etc., but it doesn't get rid of the enormous 'Ask anything' box.