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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by risorect »

egypturnash wrote: post #116

I just typed realty.com into OSX Safari 13.1.1 and got the proper site. Then when I picked up my iPhone (ios 13.5) and started to do the same test it autocompleted 'real' into 'realty.com'. On the OSX side, the 'search' pane of settings has Safar Suggestions and Quick Website Search on, has preload top hit and show favorites off, and has DDG as the search. On IOS I have DDG as the search, and have Search Engine Sugge…

I recommend editing at the beginning of your comment instead of the end, it is a lot of anecdotal/incorrect text to read through before the edit and it sort of comes off as biased or naive even though I know that wasn't your intention.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by bouke »

saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

I’m under the impression that there’s also some timing bug going on. Pressing enter too soon sometime leaves me with a filled in address field (no focus anymore) but also a blank page. I need to cmd+L, wait, enter again before firing off the query. Running into this occasionally on powerful hardware as well. Maybe because I’m in EU and roundtrip to US takes a while?

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by easygenes »

easygenes wrote: post #234
zamalek wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this. Again, I really want to understand this: why the co…

I’ve used a maxed out ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a maxed out MacBook Pro side by side. At a glance, very comparable specs. The MacBook Pro was a nicer experience. Not loyalty, it’s just better. The complaints are typically more of a, “You’ve gotten so many things right and better than everyone else, why is this rough edge still a problem!?”

Re: the butterfly keys... Yeah, they’re way more susceptible to debris than scissor switches (and I guess more fragile if you like to hammer on your keys). I’ve had to turn my laptop over and blow it out once or twice. But honestly I prefer the key feel and it’s not been a problem. I see the appeal of where they were going. It was a compromise and it didn’t go over well for a vocal and large enough minority that they unwound it. I’ll miss my butterfly keys when I refresh though.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by saagarjha »

zamalek wrote: post #219
saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this. Again, I really want to understand this: why the co…

Big Sur just came out, so I can forgive its buginess ;) But even with these bugs Apple is still the best of the batch, so you can read into that what you will (but it’ll hopefully be something like “everything else sucks even more”).

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by tjr »

zamalek wrote: post #219
saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this. Again, I really want to understand this: why the co…

I do software development and music production. I am not as thrilled with Apple products as I once was, but they remain my preferred choice for what I want to do with my computers. Inadequate selection of music software for GNU/Linux, and I find Windows just generally unpleasant to use.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by tonyarkles »

chadlavi wrote: post #143
rubyfan wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doesn’t do it for me. one difference is my default search engine is duck duck go.

Aha! Same here, it looks like maybe DDG vs Google is the real difference here?

I have a completely stock iOS setup (Google search) and have had this happen occasionally. I thought I was going crazy. Glad to see this isn’t just me.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by zamalek »

easygenes wrote: post #234
zamalek wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this. Again, I really want to understand this: why the co…

I’ve used a maxed out ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a maxed out MacBook Pro side by side. At a glance, very comparable specs. The MacBook Pro was a nicer experience. Not loyalty, it’s just better. The complaints are typically more of a, “You’ve gotten so many things right and better than everyone else, why is this rough edge still a problem!?”

> why is this rough edge still a problem!?

This perspective makes tons of sense. Safari is a rough edge for me, and I don't even use Apple - I think most of my hatred for the platform is derived from supporting that awful browser.

For my wedding website, I simply wanted to overlay some lines on MapBox with shadows to look like strings and pins on a map. My approach used dynamic SVG (changing a path attribute when the map is moved/tilted/whatever). This performed perfectly on my PC, on my Pixel and even the shitty Samsung browser my fiance uses. It completely annihilated all Apple devices I tried it on (locking up my friend's iPhone entirely), I had to remove the shadows. I really wish they would get it right, or allow alternate browser engines.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by philliphaydon »

easygenes wrote: post #234
zamalek wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this. Again, I really want to understand this: why the co…

I’ve used a maxed out ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a maxed out MacBook Pro side by side. At a glance, very comparable specs. The MacBook Pro was a nicer experience. Not loyalty, it’s just better. The complaints are typically more of a, “You’ve gotten so many things right and better than everyone else, why is this rough edge still a problem!?”

Did you use a Carbon or X1 Extreme? There is no “carbon X1 extreme”

I’ve used both side by side too. Other than the keyboard being better on Lenovo and trackpad being better on MacBook. The rest is same same to me.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by zamalek »

philliphaydon wrote: post #240
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn’t sound like you’ve tried Google Pixel products for Android phone + tablet. They’re expensive, but they are the best. I use both Android and iOS devices regularly everyday. I wouldn’t waste my time on anything but Google products for Android. It’s also the only fair comparison of Android to iOS: when using Pixel, the OS & hardware are dictated by Google just like Apple does with the OS & hardware for its pho…

Battery life for me is important on my phone. So I just can’t use android, period. Every android phone I’ve had or people I know. The battery is great, but as you download apps it gets slower, and laggier, and battery life shortens. That simply just doesn’t happen on an iPhone. This happens even with an expensive pixel or a Samsung and large battery. People can complain the battery is smaller in iPhone, but it still…

> Battery life for me is important on my phone.

They actually decreased the battery capacity on the Pixel 4 compared to the 3 (yay for thinner devices!). This seems like a good reason.

I've always plugged in my phone in the car (being a big fan of Android Auto), at my desk and when I sleep. I'd probably go mad if I didn't have those habits.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by Darkphibre »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #205
SigmundA wrote: post #51

Want another fun Safari auto complete bug? Have a tab open that is changing its title on an interval. Try to type something in any tabs address bar and use the arrow or a mouse to try and pick a result, the focus will constant jump and reset to the beginning every time the title changes on any tab, making it nearly impossible to pick a result if its changing fast enough. The auto complete list seems to be populated w…

So that's how this happens. I always thought it had something to do with sticky arrow keys or something.

Reminds me of an issue on Windows I just figured out. My keyboard input kept getting yanked to the other PC.

For some reason, my mouse cursor moves back and forth when I use the arrow keys. Been happening for a while, but whatever.

Magic Mouse (KBM emulator) at some point got configured so that holding ctrl-shift-mousemove would snap the mouse to the PC in that direction.

Sooo, Ctrl-Shift-Left (highlight previous word, something I would do frequently [like just now to highlight and italicize 'frequently']) would end up also moving the mouse left a few pixels... which would send the mouse and keyboard over to the other PC.

Took me a few weeks to track that one down.

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