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

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Post by om2 »

PostPlummer wrote: post #319
om2 wrote: post #310

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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.

Any specific feedback on completion behaviors that feel wrong?

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

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Post by om2 »

mh- wrote: post #321
om2 wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I can reliably reproduce the "sketch" example on iOS 13. Is there anything helpful I can provide re: that?

sysdiagnose, screen recording, file via Feedback Assistant if possible and share the FB#.Is this a relatively new device, or one you have been using for a while>

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

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Post by Ensorceled »

zamalek wrote: post #219
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…

> 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…

We complain because we want Apple to return to the quality it had. I know all about Windows and Linux, I get to help my wife out with her HP/MS problems all the time and I use Linux professionally every day.

I'm loyal to Apple because the alternatives are so terrible.

I guess the real question is, why are Windows people so loyal? I kind of get Linux loyalty and that would be my second choice.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

om2 wrote: post #360
saagarjha wrote: post #358

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Yes, you’re right, I did neglect to actually put a specific search term that was doing this for me. That was almost a year ago so I can’t completely remember why I didn’t, but I think it had to do with it being history-specific so I didn’t really think it would be all that helpful for reproducing the issue. Still, my mistake, and if it helps I think that I took that sysdiagnose right after reproducing that issue. As…

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that communication about bugs could be better. Still would appreciate an FB# for any weird autocompletes you experience.

I’ll make sure to file a feedback if I run into it again, and if you’d like I’d be more than happy to email the number to you as well if you’d like to CC yourself on it or push it to the right people. Thanks for your help!

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

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Post by baxtr »

om2 wrote: post #310
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…

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…

I want to stress the point that autocomplete on iOS Safari is not well designed either. It is one of these things that "customers will never tell you", but they still are annoyed every time .

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

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Post by benhurmarcel »

noodlesUK wrote: post #299

I think this is symptomatic of the really overzealous approach that Apple has towards autocomplete and autocorrect these days. The autocorrect has a nasty habit of replacing my correct sentences containing absolutely normal non-technical vocabulary with annoyingly incorrect garbage. It routinely replaces “well” with “we’ll” when it makes absolutely no sense to do so, and generally adds apostrophes all over the place.…

I just prefer to disable autocorrect.

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

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Post by mh- »

om2 wrote: post #362
mh- wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can reliably reproduce the "sketch" example on iOS 13. Is there anything helpful I can provide re: that?

sysdiagnose, screen recording, file via Feedback Assistant if possible and share the FB#.Is this a relatively new device, or one you have been using for a while>

it's my daily driver, and I upgraded and restored from iCloud for the last few devices in a row so it's hardly pristine. I'll see if I can do a sysdiagnose tomorrow.

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

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Post by cycomanic »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #254
easygenes wrote: post #234

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I’ve used a maxed out ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a maxed out MacBook Pro side by side. At a glance, very comparable specs. The MacBook Pro was a nicer experience. Not loyalty, it’s just better. The complaints are typically more of a, “You’ve gotten so many things right and better than everyone else, why is this rough edge still a problem!?”

Meanwhile my maxed out MBP 16 suffers from consistent kernel panics and reboots any time I plug into a thunderbolt dock. This is my first Mac after being in Windows land for a long time and getting fed up with recurring driver/firmware issues with my Dell XPS15 (fantastic hardware, terrible software/firmware integration though). There are definitely things that are nicer on OSX, but there are also a lot of warts that…

One thing that our IT people complain a lot about is that some of the macbooks don't have enough power on their USB ports/port replicator, so you can't attach some USB devices when on battery. Even more infuriating, for some projectors don't work without the notebook (because the port-replicator does not have enough power).

I also find it very interesting that if there is a problem with a some website/file/software mac-users blame it on the software (and actually windows users agree even if it works fine for them), but if it's a Linux user that has problems, it's always "because he/she is using Linux"

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

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Post by frank2 »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #202

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.…

May I ask: do you or have you recently developed web front ends for money?

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

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Post by csunbird »

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

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> 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?

I tried the behavior on both my work and personal macbook pros with safari. Work laptop does not suggest anything and searches sketch but my personal one suggests sketchtoy.com for sketch and sketch.com as a second result. Its clearly Siri hijacking the ENTER button.

Edit: Just to mention, I use Firefox as my daily browser in both, so my safari does not have any history on both computers.

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