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

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Alright, while we’re talking about iOS autocomplete - I have a question. I noticed that sometimes when I’m typing an out-of-dictionary word, sometimes the keyboard will actually type the key next to the key I tapped that would type a real word. I imagine they’ve put a lot of effort into making the touch keyboard accurate, so is this a feature to that end or, more likely, is it a Baader-Meinhof thing, that I only noti…

I always felt like I was the only one that experienced this. Even worse, I think sometimes it highlights the character you actually want, but once you release your finger it inserts something else. It happens very rarely but I remember I had to retype a character 5 or 6 times at one point, thinking I was going mad.

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

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Couldn't this lead to a nice settlement for this guy? Or would "it's a bug" be an acceptable defense for Apple?

It baffles me how many commenters here and on Facebook just assume this is somehow illegal.

I‘m not saying I know the US Code by heart or anything, but lacking the basic intuition for what the laws of the land are must be a terrible disadvantage.

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

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Don't have an Apple device right now, but if I go to BrowserStack.com (just created a free account there) and try it on a 'real cloud iPhone 11 Pro' (yeah, whatever that means) I cannot reproduce it. But then they don't allow you to go and check if the suggestions are turned on or off so not sure.

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

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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…

This has been annoying me for ages now and I couldn't always reliably replicate it. Nice find!

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.

Shh ... Don't give them ideas, or else very soon Safari might be converted to a Chromium based browser as well :P - and that will be the end of browser war forever (yeah, Firefox is giving a tough fight but not in terms of market share).

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

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Please remind me not to work where you do.

How about a reminder to not work where you do? Unless you’re running the company, and you’re the only employee, your work internet usage is being monitored and logged at some level. Believing otherwise is giving your employer a very generous benefit of the doubt, let’s say, but still probably naive. It’s worth understanding why all companies might be required by law to monitor, or short of that, be incentivized to mo…

Nobody at my employer has time to waste on logging, never mind reviewing my internet usage. If they did, it would be unappealing just for wasting time on crap, all creepiness aside.

Now, of course, most of it never gets near the office.

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

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> 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!?”

I have the opposite. I have a now two year old midrange Lenovo Yoga and a brand new midrange MBP. The MBP runs hot under Thunderbolt, becomes unresponsive under even moderate load, and requires a dance of "turn the monitor on, turn the monitor off, unplug the cable, plug the cable in" everytime I wake it from sleep with an external monitor. I've had to download software to turn the fan curve to "always on all the time", because the combination of Radeon + Thunderbolt hits 70 degrees at idle, and if I don't, the CPU throttles to nothing.

I can definitely see why the coffee-shop set would love this machine, since it works really well on the couch (disconnected from everything) but it's been borderline unusable tethered to my desk. In that situation, I don't care about the large trackpad, because I use the same external mouse as on all my other machines.

Don't even get me started on third party software quality.

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

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TBH I quite like it, especially in chrome. I can type "GitHub [project name] pulls" and it will take me where I want to go, I can type "app.dev myfeature" and it will go suggest "app.dev.company.com/some/deep/path-abcd1234/myfeature"

Meanwhile in Chrome for me I type my project manager’s name to bring up their WebEx link I visit several times a day and it comes up but first I have to move my mouse down past several autocomplete suggestions for travel destinations and popular musicians.

I have always had this problem with Chrome suggestions. the Firefox suggestions about ten years ago were perfect. I miss them.
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