Safari autofills web addresses as your typing. However if I'm out of town for a wek or two it seems to forget many of my regular sites. Are there any option settings for this re time kept active??
Safari autofills web addresses as your typing. However if I'm out of town for a wek or two it seems to forget many of my regular sites. Are there any option settings for this re time kept active??
i think it draws from history--change your history setting to remember sites for 3 weeks.
Safari autofills web addresses as your typing. However if I'm out of town for a wek or two it seems to forget many of my regular sites. Are there any option settings for this re time kept active??
Hi Jassd,
As pointed out above, safari gets its predictive address from the history but the history only goes back a few days. I was looking for solutions to extend the history and through apple discussion i found the following intstructions.
"Extending or Limiting Safari's History
Here's another useful hint. Credit goes to MacOSXHints.com user LRHann, with his original hint.
Safari's history is often limited by how many items or how many days it saves. You can actually extend this to a full year of history if you really wanted. To do this, quit Safari, and then open up [your home folder --> Library --> Preferences --> com.apple.Safari.plist] with TextEdit. Do a search for "WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit", and the change the number on the next line to be the desired number of days. Do the same for "WebKitHistoryItemLimit": if you want it to be virtually unlimited, just change that specific number to 9999.
Note that you want to leave the formatting alone, so make sure not to touch those "key","/key","string", and "/string" tags. Otherwise you'll make your preferences corrupt."
This makes no sense to me. Surely the default should be going to what you type in. In other browsers, you press the down-arrow to select an address from the list. There is an extra keypress to use autocomplete, not to avoid it.
I particularly hate this because, unusually for Apple, it fails the 'mum test' (or mom test if you're American) - it's a confusing thing to explain to a technophobe.
Yeah Safari should have the OPTION to turn it off. And umm a lot more options. Its History management is the most lacking of any modern OS X browsers. Its Download window is pretty bad too. I was hoping that they'd clean up these sore spots in 2.0. Guess not. Safari's dev is glacial. Adding all those Moz goodies would be cool too, although I don't know if that would be hard considering the different code base, and if KHTML has them, like the things that make Moz fast. Pipelining, Stay Alive, and Predictive Caching. Also, the way FireFox comes set up by default is genius, the way it asks if you want to block pop ups, and has the thing already checked off if you want to keep doing it, or if the security dialogue comes up, and it's already checked off. It is perfect for newbies and almost everyone else too, because who wouldn't want this checked off? More of this line of thinking in Safari would be good, though it's already doing good in this department. Also, Flash isn't included with it still, is it? That is a mistake.
Saving windows, kiosk mode, and a few other Saft goodies would be nice to add too. Full screen!!! Make it F11 too, that'd be perfect hehe. just kidding. sort of.
It's possible to add more to Safari while still keeping it basic. The best thing is the lack of huge buttons and a plethora of useless bars, like IE and Opera. Moz/Firefox and Safari, and Camino, have this down. This is why they make IE feel like it's 10 years old. It just hurts my eyes to even look at IE.
By the way I just switched to the Safari 2.0 but had same problem with Safari 1.0
i know this thread is old but i just realized that Onyx (the utility app) is where i could set the amount of pages safari remembers. i didnt have it for a while because it wasn't tiger compatible, but it is now. check versiontracker.
If you use the type ahead feature often, you may want to check out Sogudi, a utility that stores user-defined shortcuts for web site URLs. At first glance it looks like a pain in the arse to memorize a shortcut for every website, but I found that after a few days Sogudi was easier and faster to use than bookmark menus.
Heh, a friend of mine using a Wintel called me up desperate to deactivate or clear the type ahead "feature" in IE - seems his parents were coming in to town to visit for a week and they both use the internet. Needless to say, he never discovered how to clear the type ahead cache on his Wintel, and his dad started typing in some travel URL when BAM, up popped a URL for hot 'n lusty teen wenches. Luckily his mom never used the internet, and his dad just checked out the porn whenever his mom was out, so no great loss. But it was a close call...imagine if his mom saw that! Microsoft's bloated crapware has probably broken up more than a few marriages because of shit like the secret type ahead cache.
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Originally posted by jassd
Safari autofills web addresses as your typing. However if I'm out of town for a wek or two it seems to forget many of my regular sites. Are there any option settings for this re time kept active??
i think it draws from history--change your history setting to remember sites for 3 weeks.
By the way I just switched to the Safari 2.0 but had same problem with Safari 1.0
Originally posted by jassd
Where will I find the "history setting" ?
By the way I just switched to the Safari 2.0 but had same problem with Safari 1.0
should be in safari preferences.
Originally posted by ipodandimac
should be in safari preferences.
Nope.
Originally posted by Jared
Nope.
hmm sorry about that. i can't seem to find it either. i'm pretty sure it's somewhere though. i'll keep looking...
Originally posted by jassd
Safari autofills web addresses as your typing. However if I'm out of town for a wek or two it seems to forget many of my regular sites. Are there any option settings for this re time kept active??
Hi Jassd,
As pointed out above, safari gets its predictive address from the history but the history only goes back a few days. I was looking for solutions to extend the history and through apple discussion i found the following intstructions.
"Extending or Limiting Safari's History
Here's another useful hint. Credit goes to MacOSXHints.com user LRHann, with his original hint.
Safari's history is often limited by how many items or how many days it saves. You can actually extend this to a full year of history if you really wanted. To do this, quit Safari, and then open up [your home folder --> Library --> Preferences --> com.apple.Safari.plist] with TextEdit. Do a search for "WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit", and the change the number on the next line to be the desired number of days. Do the same for "WebKitHistoryItemLimit": if you want it to be virtually unlimited, just change that specific number to 9999.
Note that you want to leave the formatting alone, so make sure not to touch those "key","/key","string", and "/string" tags. Otherwise you'll make your preferences corrupt."
This information is written by Simone at apple-x.net at the following link: http://www.apple-x.net/modules.php?o...ticle&sid=1413
I have heard that it is not a good idea for you to extend it for too long as it may slow safari down.
Hope this helps!
Has anybody who has extended their history have it slow down? If so, how many days do you have it set on?
try setting that preference file to 0
But then I'd lose all my history settings.
This makes no sense to me. Surely the default should be going to what you type in. In other browsers, you press the down-arrow to select an address from the list. There is an extra keypress to use autocomplete, not to avoid it.
I particularly hate this because, unusually for Apple, it fails the 'mum test' (or mom test if you're American) - it's a confusing thing to explain to a technophobe.
Saving windows, kiosk mode, and a few other Saft goodies would be nice to add too. Full screen!!! Make it F11 too, that'd be perfect hehe. just kidding. sort of.
It's possible to add more to Safari while still keeping it basic. The best thing is the lack of huge buttons and a plethora of useless bars, like IE and Opera. Moz/Firefox and Safari, and Camino, have this down. This is why they make IE feel like it's 10 years old. It just hurts my eyes to even look at IE.
Originally posted by jassd
Where will I find the "history setting" ?
By the way I just switched to the Safari 2.0 but had same problem with Safari 1.0
i know this thread is old but i just realized that Onyx (the utility app) is where i could set the amount of pages safari remembers. i didnt have it for a while because it wasn't tiger compatible, but it is now. check versiontracker.
Heh, a friend of mine using a Wintel called me up desperate to deactivate or clear the type ahead "feature" in IE - seems his parents were coming in to town to visit for a week and they both use the internet. Needless to say, he never discovered how to clear the type ahead cache on his Wintel, and his dad started typing in some travel URL when BAM, up popped a URL for hot 'n lusty teen wenches. Luckily his mom never used the internet, and his dad just checked out the porn whenever his mom was out, so no great loss. But it was a close call...imagine if his mom saw that! Microsoft's bloated crapware has probably broken up more than a few marriages because of shit like the secret type ahead cache.