Google Chrome disable autocomplete

I was becoming increasingly frustrated with Google Chromes autocomplete feature. Everytime I typed in www in the address bar, sites that I had visited over a year ago were coming up. So, I cleared history, cache, saved data through Tools -> Options and the addresses were still coming up as suggestions in my address bar.

I then went to Tools -> Options, unchecked Show suggestions for navigation errors and Use a suggestion service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar. Still, these websites were still coming up. I even turned my account sync as they were appearing on my home machine as well as my work one (my Chrome at both locations are synced).

It then occured to me, what is the same on both my home and work machine and is now the only thing that is synced (after turning everything else off). Bookmarks. Thats it, bookmarks, its got to be! So, I exported them into an html document on my machine (Tools -> Bookmark Manager -> Export Bookmarks), deleted my bookmarks and restarted Chrome. Typed in www and all of the suggested sites were gone. Thank heavens, that was winding me up. And guess what, importing them brings them back.

The most annoying thing is, Chrome must select a random selection of sites in my bookmark that starts with www. Would it not make sense to give me sites that I visit regularly / daily from my bookmarks, instead of sites that I haven’t visited since 2009? So, is the solution to export my bookmarks and delete them? Surely that is counter productive? I hope it gets fixed some way or another because that is one of those niggling, annoying bugs that you could really do without. Kind of like an itch you get at 3 o clock in the morning which just won’t go away.