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Post by Hnrobert42 »

NorwegianDude wrote: post #379
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #233

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For me: privacy and build quality. Yes, you do see issues with build quality, but all manufacturers have bugs. Overall, it is still much better than the alternatives.

Linux is way better when it comes to privacy, without any doubt. Dell is way better when it comes to hardware. Dell believes enough in their products to sell laptops with next business day repair included. It's definetly not cheap to send people to fix a single laptop in the middle of nowhere. Apple doesn't think their laptops are good enough for this to be worth it, so that says a bit about the build quality.

Yeah. I have thought about getting a Dell XPS running Linux for years, but I just can’t ever pull the trigger. I don’t even have great reasons other than I have been a satisfied Mac user for 15 years.

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

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Post by bichonnages »

scottjg wrote: post #287
nodamage wrote: post #146

I've run into a similar problem on the Mac version of Safari for a while now: I'll paste in a full ( http:// or https:// ) URL and hit Enter, but instead of loading the requested URL it just reloads the current page. I sometimes have to paste it a couple times before it will actually load the URL I want. Anyone else encountered this or am I just going crazy?

i was hoping someone would bring this up. it happens to me all the time.

Me too!

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

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Post by sixhobbits »

joenathanone wrote: post #400
dervjd wrote: post #382

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Filed a report here: FB7796744 This has driven me absolutely nuts as well...occurs when trying to visit wbay.com (instead sends me to ebay.com)

Wow, I just tried wbay.com and it sent me to eBay.com, I find this very disturbing.

this happens to me too using safari on ipados

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Post by gentleman11 »

om2 wrote: post #361
PostPlummer wrote: post #319

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> 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?

Never autocomplete a URL, just offer suggestions that the user can select manually

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

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #405
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #315

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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…

Ew, yeah, that's a pain. FWIW, and as a workaround and not any sort of defense of FF breaking itself: You could, from an existing page, type what you want in the search box, then middle-click (or ctrl+click) the search button, which opens the result in a new tab. Again, you shouldn't have to do this, but it seems like it'd patch your workflow.

In the end I opted for an extension - it redirects a new tab to a web page of my choosing.

The action is a bit distracting but it happens fast enough that it's not a bother.

I'll note it was the 2nd extension I tried. It may be some onerous Firefox security measure needs to be bypassed & the first extension hadn't managed it yet.

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

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Post by om2 »

qeternity wrote: post #401
joenathanone wrote: post #400

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Wow, I just tried wbay.com and it sent me to eBay.com, I find this very disturbing.

None of the others triggered for me but this does. I’m running the Big Sur beta and notice that spotlight search is comically wrong as well. What gives Apple?

If you're curious why this happens, it's overzealous typo fixes.

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

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Post by piyush_soni »

nl wrote: post #352
piyush_soni wrote: post #346

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Shh ... Don't give them ideas, or else very soon Safari might be converted to a Chromium based browser as well :P - and that will be the end of browser war forever (yeah, Firefox is giving a tough fight but not in terms of market share).

Well they are already both Webkit and that aspect is the problem (yes I know about Blink vs Webkit, but still).

Yes, I know it's webkit based, but not entirely Chromium based like Microsoft Edge is. And as you already know Chromium is Blink based now.

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Post by indigo945 »

jolux wrote: post #277
zamalek wrote: post #259

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I understand this perspective. I understand why people think that Windows is a hot mess, I has earned that reputation and them some. I haven't had Windows do stupid shit in over two years. Updating it is a habit once in a while, possibly barely more frequently than it forces (unless I hear about a big vulnerability on HN). I'd probably be annoyed if I didn't understand how important updates were and kept postponing t…

Good god, I agree about privacy, but as somebody who does .NET dev for her day job, how did you get rid of the annoyances? Some of these are little stuff but, off the top of my head: I can't understand the different between these smart "locations" and folders in explorer (documents vs my documents, why everything is under desktop in some file pickers, why C:\ is so hard to get to these days) even after using windows…

You can also open an Explorer window and then enter the location that you want to go to into the location bar. C: takes you to C: and Control Panel takes you to the "old" control panel, instead of the confusing new "Settings" UI. Network Connections also works and is often useful because all the newer network configuration utilities are useless. A gives you an administrative prompt. While in an open explorer window, []S will give you a regular prompt in the current folder.

These are the small quality-of-life tricks that I use daily. I am not going to claim it makes it enjoyable, though.

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

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Post by Apofis »

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…

Apple's iOS autocomplete ain't much to write home about either, to be honest. One of my biggest gripes with the iPhone is when it freakin' turns something I spelled correctly into a wholly different word, and it does it ALL the damn time.
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