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

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Post by fiblye »

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…

My phone's language and my native language are different. Oftentimes it'll recommend me an English wikipedia article while typing (which is fine). But whenever I select it, it fails, since an article with the same title as the English wikipedia doesn't exist in the phone's language. Why are the recommendations in the language I'm typing, but the links it follows through with defaulting to the phone's language? It's slightly bizarre.

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

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Post by nbardy »

rjeli wrote: post #61

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 just moved to android and this bugs the shit out of me. It’s definitely real. I had to retype a character once by using the side of the key farthest from the one it was touch jacking.

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

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Post by rubyfan »

xsmasher wrote: post #82
chadlavi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a bit confused... I just typed "sketch" in Safari on my phone. The first suggested result was indeed skechers.com. But then I hit enter (so the total keystrokes were "s k e t c h return") and it did a search in my default search engine for "sketch". Which is what I expected. so what am I doing that you're not?

I can confirm the "s k e t c h return" -> skechers behavior. "s k e t c h SPACE return" got me the google search results.

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

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

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Post by crazygringo »

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…

Yup, similar -- I've never visited either in my life prior, but on macOS it goes to realty.com, but I am shocked that on iOS I type in "realty.com" and it doesn't autocorrect, but lists "realtor.com" as the top suggestion below, but when I hit enter it goes to realtor.com instead of realty.com!

That is seriously bad functionality. I've already been annoyed at iOS's keyboard overly autocorrecting, but to change a URL I typed in explicitly really pisses me off.

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

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Post by throwanem »

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…

HTH: The quickest way I know to dismiss suggestions in favor of a search is to hit Space after whatever intended search term is matching a suggestion.

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

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Post by chooseaname »

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 turned it off. Now I just handle each red squiggly on it’s own.

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

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Post by markstos »

ssss11 wrote: post #44
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…

Thats rediculous, and theres plenty of other equally undermining things technology does these days. When did technologists get so arrogant to think they should implement these things? I dont want my computer to think or make decisions for me, just get better at doing what I say.

Apple IS trying do what they think the users are saying.

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

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Post by crenwick »

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…

This behavior sends me to undesired pages on a daily basis. Thank you for finally telling me what causes it!

It essentially makes basic keyboard shortcuts useless on safari.

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

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Post by pier25 »

heavymark wrote: post #22

File a bug report on https://webkit.org/reporting-bugs/ . Unlike the apple bug reporter where it goes into an abyss and might be years before a resolution or even a reply, with the webkit reporting system I usually get a response from apple employees very quickly and majority of the items fixed in the next release or two.

That has _not_ been my experience when reporting bugs to webkit.

I've reported a couple of bugs that are still there, years after I reported them.

See this one for example reported in 2016:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162512

Or this other one from 6 months ago and still no response from the team:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207049

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