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

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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…

Posting reply here for more visibility. Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavi…

I can reliably reproduce the "sketch" example on iOS 13. Is there anything helpful I can provide re: that?

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

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As an android user who has an apple-only-girlfriend... I'm always amazed at how exceptionally terrible autocomplete is on her iPhone, and how much better the Android counterpart is. Lol the complete absolute nonsense the iPhone of hers will predict is crazy for a premium phone from the worlds most valuable company. Not hating (I love their hardware - not software) just wondering why is it so bad on Apple ? Is there l…

Maybe she’s the problem? It “learns” as you go based on your habits, so she probably just writes very differently from you.

I was thinking that ! Surely it must uses your like past history right ? Is there something she should turn on ?

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

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I received my new American Express and, when trying to enter the URL on the sticker, Safari suggested a phishing site as the "top result". I tried reporting this to both Apple and AMEX but never received a response :(

Maybe worth semi weaponizing it? Make your own phishing page that gets into this list (easier said than done) and as soon as they click the sign in button (pre credential entry) splash a page explaining that Apple is busted?

If it was open source you could fix it yourself, sounds easier.

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

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Posting reply here for more visibility. Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavi…

> but I can't reproduce either behavior myself Me neither. manOS Catalina, Version 10.15.5. Safari Version 13.1.1 (15609.2.9.1.2) EDIT: Still can't get used to Safari's URL completion behaviour. It is completely unnatural and hard to feel as useful, unlike chrome's which is very handy and behaves like I expect.

Apple is targeting the average user as usual and breaking the world wide web standards.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Posting reply here for more visibility. Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavi…

I can reliably reproduce the "sketch" example on iOS 13. Is there anything helpful I can provide re: that?

You can probably get a sysdiagnose from your iOS device with: https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2018/02/08/how-to-sysdiagn...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

WebKit has a public bug tracker.

Apple Safari (mobile and desktop) doesn't use the WebKit.org bug tracker. They do their own thing.

Video playback is a WebKit feature.

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

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I've run into a similar problem on the Mac version of Safari for a while now: I'll paste in a full ( http:// or https:// ) URL and hit Enter, but instead of loading the requested URL it just reloads the current page. I sometimes have to paste it a couple times before it will actually load the URL I want. Anyone else encountered this or am I just going crazy?

Ah so I’m not going crazy. These things are just... the type of bug that indicates a deeper issue in the code. Poor software engineering decisions, and many of them.

Mobile Safari had a bug for a year where the zoom function would get stuck somehow, breaking rendering completely. I wonder how that happened too.

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

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Safari is the absolute worst web browser by far. Both mobile and desktop. This kind of egregious error is only the most obvious part. Try doing a WebRTC conference call in Safari. Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Jitsi Meet, etc, etc, etc. None of them support Safari. Do you know why? It's because Safari is absolutely riddled with bugs: [1][2][3]. It is incredible how bad Safari is. [1] https://bugs.webkit.…

Google Meet works fine, as does Jitsi Meet. We're working with popular WebRTC providers one at a time. Unfortunately, the state of WebRTC interop is pretty bad across the board, so providers use website lockouts and qualify one browser at a time. Sorry about those three bugs. They do sound like bugs and will be looked into.

Huh, I never got anything that does audio/video calling to work on Safari. Always only provides a test video and audio. Permissions are all granted

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

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I've run into a similar problem on the Mac version of Safari for a while now: I'll paste in a full ( http:// or https:// ) URL and hit Enter, but instead of loading the requested URL it just reloads the current page. I sometimes have to paste it a couple times before it will actually load the URL I want. Anyone else encountered this or am I just going crazy?

This infuriates me every single day, and it also happens when just editing the URL of the current page.

Typing a space at the end of the URL and waiting a second before hitting enter seems to circumvent this issue.

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

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post #310

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…

Posting reply here for more visibility. Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavi…

Unable to reproduce on iOS 13.5.1

FWIW I have none of those sites “sketch, sketchers, realty, realtor” in my history or bookmarks

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