Does anybody believe Apple is making money off this? Redirecting websites to competitors.
It's just a bug. We could use bug reports of this because it doesn't seem to reproduce for everyone.
When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#312File 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.
This in particular is a Safari bug, not WebKit, so not ideal to file there. If anyone files a case of this with sysdiagnose and screen recording and posts the FB# here, I will make sure it gets looked at.
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#313I only made it halfway through the comments. I like my machines to NOT do the thinking for me and allow me to make my shortcuts.
One of the things I appreciateon my (default) phone setup (Android, Honor 8x, Firefox, DDG) is that when I type on the browser's URL/search the autocorrect is OFF. When I type in the DDF search form the autocorrect is ON.
I find this super logical (I keep suggestions off)
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Plus the privacy thing. I really have to hand it to Apple there. I think they must be big tech that really cares (I use Fastmail etc. for this reason, but they aren't the same scope). Their privacy story nearly converted me a year back, but the walled garden has always been my biggest hurdle for switching to Apple. I personally regard the walled garden as a greater violation of what I think consumer rights are. I'd…
In addition to reducing freedom, the walled garden reduces privacy. You cannot install an app on your phone, not even (especially!) one you develop yourself, without telling Apple. The privacy marketing that Apple does for iOS is the biggest scam in consumer tech.
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.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
At least Firefox still lets you put back a dedicated search box
On my Firefox 79, if I pop open a new tab, 1) the cursor is refocused from the search box to the URL bar and 2) the URL bar is a search box (even if search-in-url-box is successfully disabled in not-new tabs).
Even better, the option to set new tab to a webpage is gone. The only choices are the Firefox default page or a blank webpage.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem. I'd just try one of the dozen of known tweaks to about:config or userChrome.css and defeat this behavior. Except none of them impact this.
Again, this is only for a new tab.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works fine for me. I just long press on the keyboard to get into cursor edit mode and swipe along until I get to where I want.
Nice, thanks! Now that you remind me I’m sure I’ve seen that move before, but forgot about it and have been frustrated when editing urls every day since. I think this is the worst thing about using an iPhone for me and probably a lot of other users. Here is the full incantation to get it to work: 1. Touch the address bar and the keyboard will appear. 2. Long press on the spacebar (other parts of the keyboard won’t do…
This is better than what I've been doing ...
But I find the experience of the cursor navigation by long-press on keyboard quite odd still ... if you stay in the mode for awhile -- and try sliding back and forth its quite an odd experience as it feels like the algorithm behind the cursor motion and its relationship to scrolling becomes less clear over time rather than more understood ...
Maybe there is something wrong with my touchscreen ... I can't figure out how to get the soft keyboard to scroll the cursor position reliably past the viewable area -- sometimes it does scroll and sometimes it doesn't and its a bit of a mystery to me what the intended motion input into the device is that will meet my desires ...
seems like maybe the panning speed needs to be proportional to the fingers vertical height in the keyboard or something -- no panning up top, and fast panning below
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#317Safari 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.…
Google Meet works fine, as does Jitsi Meet. We're working with popular WebRTC providers one at a time. Unfortunately, the state of WebRTC interop is pretty bad across the board, so providers use website lockouts and qualify one browser at a time. Sorry about those three bugs. They do sound like bugs and will be looked into.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#318I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").
I just tried and I went to realty.com. I’m Danish but I set the keyboard to English and it still sent me to realty.com.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#319This 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…
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.
Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Firefox 1.0 had a search box, see the screenshot at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#...