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

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

EGreg wrote: post #335
sudosysgen wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is true. The privacy threat model of an iPhone is absolute trust in Apple that has more control over your device than you do. For me, it doesn't compute.

It computes for me. It's my Trusted Computing Base, in fact. Would rather have to trust one company than several, as with Android. Can we do better somehow? These 4-5 years may be the last era where we could trust our hardware, until governments all demand backdoors in the OS.

> Would rather have to trust one company than several,

What? Get the google pixel. One company. They don’t manufacture the phones but have complete control over them... and they are really good.

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

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Post by learnstats2 »

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…

> This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year

Also here - I quit using desktop Safari just for this reason.

I could write a full URL, press enter, and Safari would take me to a different page on a different website from my history.

It then seems almost impossible to reach the URL I wanted. I got into the habit of copying the URL to the clipboard in case I needed to re-try, or use another browser.

(This doesn't appear to be happening to me right now)

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

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Post by yung0 »

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…

Stop using it.

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

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Post by blackhaz »

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…

Because the UI "designers" are now trying to satisfy a person who slams their fist on the keyboard and the browser takes them to where they need be.

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

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Post by boredatworkme »

I just tried it on my iphone and I don't see this behavior. I have this option of "pre-load top hit" disabled. I understand not a lot of users will have this disabled and is probably what is causing this issue. Therefore, this is more of an issue with the aggressive suggestions engine for websites that a testament to how poor Safari as a browser is (which is what many comments here seem to suggest).

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Post by jeroenhd »

callamdelaney wrote: post #343

Have you tried typing 'form/multipart' into your firefox url bar? I expect a google search - what I get is a redirect to ` https://form.com/multipart` - what?!

Firefox does that to fix quickly typed domains if they're not found by DNS (it appends .com and tries to load that). It's probably because form/multipart is nearly a functional URL (where "form" is the hostname, which could very well be resolved in corporate networks or through a hosts file, for example).

If you want to be sure you're executing a search, either use a keyword for Google or start your query with a question mark. A quick way to execute a search is to hit control+k, which puts focus to the URL bar and prepopulates it with "? " so that whatever you type after it is executed as a search.

I actually dislike it when Firefox does the opposite for websites like pi.hole or fritz.box. The domain does resolve, but you get redirected to a search page regardless and Firefox put a suggestion to navigate to what you typed. My address bar is not a Google search form, it's an address bar that happens to search on Google when I type something that's not a web address.

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Post by foolmeonce »

om2 wrote: post #361
PostPlummer wrote: post #319

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> 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.

Any specific feedback on completion behaviors that feel wrong?

I recently ran into input fields being autocorrected and autocapitalized at 2 different levels (disabled it with an attribute and this caused a delayed capitalization by autocorrect instead of an immediate one) by safari in the iOS emulator..

Luckily the field in question was an actual email so I could fix it by changing the type, since all the official and apple custom attributes I tried failed to turn off the correction..

I would like the security of a non-android device, but using apple products is utterly infuriating with all the damn "help" missfiring all the time.

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Post by NorwegianDude »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #233
zamalek wrote: post #219

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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…

For me: privacy and build quality. Yes, you do see issues with build quality, but all manufacturers have bugs. Overall, it is still much better than the alternatives.

Linux is way better when it comes to privacy, without any doubt.

Dell is way better when it comes to hardware. Dell believes enough in their products to sell laptops with next business day repair included. It's definetly not cheap to send people to fix a single laptop in the middle of nowhere. Apple doesn't think their laptops are good enough for this to be worth it, so that says a bit about the build quality.

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