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

Post by PhasmaFelis » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 10:52 PM UTC

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…

Post by freehunter » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 12:42 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #417

reaperducer wrote: post #410

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My company's BYOD policy is that you have to load the company's management software onto your personal hardware, and then if you leave the company, they wipe the device remotely, including all of your personal data. I think it's draconian, but plenty of people signed up for the program. I prefer to keep my home and work gear isolated from one another. I don't even have them on the same ISP.

Yeah, that sounds pretty bad and precisely the kind of thing I don't like at all. The carte blanche that companies have over anything that has been anywhere near anything of theirs is really annoying and not really practical for most people, and kind of stupid of you stop to think about it. Why can't we have company data in a thing where you can wipe just that? If I come to work and bring a personal device, they can…

Post by freehunter » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 12:47 AM UTC

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freehunter wrote: post #138

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“Most things just work” or alternatively “it just works (the way most users want it to work)” There is not and can never be “it just works for everyone and every use case with no configuration”.

But that's true for everything, not just iphone. So "just works" loses it's meaning.

Post by freehunter » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 12:52 AM UTC

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dahart wrote: post #228

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How about a reminder to not work where you do? Unless you’re running the company, and you’re the only employee, your work internet usage is being monitored and logged at some level. Believing otherwise is giving your employer a very generous benefit of the doubt, let’s say, but still probably naive. It’s worth understanding why all companies might be required by law to monitor, or short of that, be incentivized to mo…

Disclosure: UK business owner and employer but no US employees. For us here at least, there’s no such requirement to betray the trust of our staff and spy on them, and we don’t do so. To be honest, the idea that anyone might consider this an acceptable behaviour never occurred to me. I’d like to think this is the norm but have no data either way.

Post by SubiculumCode » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

jwitthuhn wrote: post #270

partdavid wrote: post #97

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You have the ability to have a dedicated search box, but your URL bar is also a search box, and you can't turn it off. I want to enter URLs in a box which doesn't try to autocomplete as a search, doesn't search my search engine, doesn't try to fill in missing TLDs, etc. I had something close before 75.0, which introduced the "revamped" address bar that is also swollen. I separated the search box not because I want a…

This is still possible in Firefox 77 if I am understanding correctly. The magic entries in about:config are keyword.enabled - Turning this off will make firefox never search for something you type in the address bar. browser.fixup.alternate.enabled - Turning this off will make firefox never try to "fix" the url you type in by putting .com on the end of it.