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

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Post by thedanbob »

breatheoften wrote: post #103

Url editing on iphone safari is highly messed up experience ... the text selection and editing behavior is just broken since ios 12 or 11 -- whichever one introduced the new text selection model ... My standard easy repro -- go to a long url and try to edit the second to last segment of the url path (something which i do for work frequently when folks send me links to projects under development). Enjoy the frustratio…

Am I going crazy, or did this change recently to become even worse? I know before it was pointless to even try to click into the middle of a URL, so my standard procedure was to click past the end to get a cursor and drag back to where I wanted to edit. But recently it changed so now that's impossible: if I click past the end of the URL, even if I'm very careful to avoid the Ⓧ it still just deletes the entire URL! Now I have to click the URL itself to select the entire thing and then drag the starting selection marker to the end. It's a small change but infuriating after years of the old habit.

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

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Post by Thorrez »

ehsankia wrote: post #139
mikewhy wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

The difference is how it's visualized. On Chrome, it shows you the complete path. If I type "gi" in omnibox, I can visually see "github.com/EhsanKia" and then I press enter. In the video shown above, you visually SEE "realty.comm" (there's an extra m there which I found very strange, which makes me think this is a bug), but when the person pressed enter, it goes to realtor.com. I expect pressing enter to run the quer…

> SEE "realty.comm"

I don't see 2 ms, at least not in the first example in the video.

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

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Post by evolve2k »

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

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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?

So the hypotheses is, it’s doing a web search and google is doing an auto “I’m feeling lucky” redirect.

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

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Post by andrewksl »

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…

Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results.

There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.

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

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Post by 40four »

I tested on my iPhone and it does not have this behavior. It went to the correct site on Safari & on Firefox.

Why is he demonstrating on random phones in an Apple store? That’s not really a good example of a ‘clean’, out of the box device.

A ton of people have tinkered with those phones. Isn’t it possible that some other people typed ‘realtor.com’ in all those phones in the past?

Either way it you type a specific, valid URL, it should never be overridden with an autocomplete.

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

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Post by emmelaich »

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…

Holy sh!&*@#!t thank you. I had similar behaviour with a different remote BMC thing.

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

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Post by ViViDboarder »

ivalm wrote: post #118
chadlavi wrote: post #45

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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?

On iPhone 11 Pro and updated Safari typing “sketch” and pressing “go” leads to sketchers website. Have to click on “google searches” to get other results.

iPhone 8 it leads me to DDG search results.
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