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

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Post by numpad0 »

freehunter wrote: post #137
grawprog wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure that's great, but that should either be separate from the address bar or at the very least shouldn't be so 'default' for lack of a better term, that just clicking without thinking activates that behaviour. For people like yourself that use it to its full advantage I won't argue that is a good feature. For the majority of people trying to make a simple search, it doesn't seem so helpful. I feel like default behav…

It used to be two different lines in the address bar in Firefox. Then Chrome came along with the omnibar and people liked it so it stuck.

It used to be two different boxes in Opera. Early Firefox or IE didn’t have a search box.

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

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

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.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211181

[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212669

[3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212780

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

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Post by ncmncm »

freehunter wrote: post #141
reaperducer wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe he never does anything on his work machine that would cause privacy concerns?

At my work, clearing browser history is a red flag for audit. Their idea on the policy is anything you do on your work machine is work-related and the company has the right to see that history. If you want privacy, use your own device. And while that’s not my policy, I’ve worked in security long enough to know... anything you do on your work computers is already being watched by the security team. Web proxies and log…

Please remind me not to work where you do.

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

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Post by spiderfarmer »

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…

So that's how this happens. I always thought it had something to do with sticky arrow keys or something.

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

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

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…

How could something so basic be so broken? You could put a completely logic free html input there and it would be a better experience.

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

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Post by ncmncm »

Will this be enough to make you swear off ever buying another Apple product?

If not, they have no reason to fix it. You will get used to it, soon enough, and like every other offense, it will soon seem unremarkable.

The battered wife doesn't leave him because, she says, "I can still stand it."

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

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

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.

No way. I've reported several iOS Safari bugs to the webkit tracker and all of them were marked confirmed and not a single one has been fixed. In the last 3 years.

Apple is in way over its head trying to build/maintain a web browser on mobile and desktop.

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

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Post by cuddlybacon »

chadlavi wrote: post #45
impendia wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com" I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever. But it's even worse than you said: the website is actually "skechers.com", with no t. So, when you type "sketch", Safari is guessing that you're misspelling the name of a shoe retailer.

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?

s k e t c h takes me to a DuckDuckGo search.

I’ve always been frustrated with Chrome where it always tries to force the longest URL in my history that matches the current entry.

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