Chrome 88 disables space bar shortcut for custom search engines, but there's a fix

Rolling out more widely

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Tab-only search rolling out more widely

Chrome 88 brought some quality of life improvements like better password protection and tab search, but more and more people are noticing an unfortunate regression on the desktop version. For ages, it's been possible to add custom search engines (under chrome://settings/searchEngines), which you can invoke with custom keywords followed by hitting the space bar or tab. You could set up "acom" or "tw" for searching Amazon or Twitter right from your address bar, for example.

Chrome 88 disables space bar shortcut for custom search engines, but there's a fix was written by the awesome team at Android Police.