URL autocomplete no longer working in Chrome

Saved my bookmarks, removed my ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Default directory (careful, it looks like absolutely everything is stored here) restarted chrome, and within one visit to Gmail.com, my autocomplete was filling in my URLs like so:

Beautiful.

It seems chrome crash will cause this.

Here is what I did to solve that:

• close chrome
• remove -rf ~/.config/google-chrome/
• restart chrome
• re-login to chrome to restore things like theme,
• now, the auto fill should be working.

This happened to me and when I checked on Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar in Settings > Advanced Settings the box was unchecked and disabled. There was a puzzle piece next to it explaining Privacy Badger had shut the service off.