fresh/clean install of leopard here. Safari behaves the way mr. me says. As I typed in only "ibm" and hit return it went straight to ibm.com. then as I retried "ibm" it auto filled in teh .com
I guess if it doesn't work on your machine then there may be an issue, but if you are just sitting there waiting for safari to auto-fill something that doesn't seem necessary then I wouldn't know how else to help you.
One more thing you could try but since you did a clean install I don't know if it will help or not. Either way, the following is a great utility for OS X and now it is is compatible with Leopard.
fresh/clean install of leopard here. Safari behaves the way mr. me says. As I typed in only "ibm" and hit return it went straight to ibm.com. then as I retried "ibm" it auto filled in teh .com
I guess if it doesn't work on your machine then there may be an issue, but if you are just sitting there waiting for safari to auto-fill something that doesn't seem necessary then I wouldn't know how else to help you.
I am not waiting for the autfill to come in. If I type "ibm" and then hit enter, I get an error page.
There is an issue.
It has always worked in tiger. It has never worked in any of my Windows boxes.
Tigers Safari added the ".com" after getting to the site regardless of any previous visit or bookmark. all I had to do was type the domain name (ie:ibm) and hit enter. If the site ended in .com, I would be there. It is a real time saver. If the site ended in .org, .net, etc., I would manually add it in.
I find it almost impossible to be an ISP issue, given that the issue was not present at 12:00 when using tiger, but was at 2:00 right after the Leopard install. It must be Safari related.
Someone on the Apple support forums recommended using OpenDNS, but it does not seem to correct this issue on everyone having this issue. Apparently, it is a wide-spread issue with the Leopard version of Safari. Apple is not commenting, however.
One more thing you could try but since you did a clean install I don't know if it will help or not. Either way, the following is a great utility for OS X and now it is is compatible with Leopard.
Go into the Automation tab and select everything except Repair Permissions. Then hit execute.
Also go into the cleaning tab, click on internet and then select all you want to clean. I don't usually clean cookies or form values.
Restart a couple of times after it is done and then see what you get.
I use MainMenu for OS cleaning. Since I was having these issues, I dL'd it and clean house. Then I reset Safari, deleted the plists, repaired permissions, cleared PRAM and NVRAM, restarted, tried as other user, etc. No good.
It is sort of a pain. Safari has spoiled me to the point that I hate to even use firefox. I just want this feature to work. When I type a domain and hit enter, it should take me directly to www.domain.com
OK, well since you get the wrong behavior with two different user accounts, then the misconfiguration is in the System folder or in the /Library folder.
It's just impossible to say whether it is webkit prefs, Safari prefs, input managers, text encoding, or what.
I forget it anyone advised testing starting up with extensions off. Shift-reboot.., hold Shift until desktop appears.
In my case, Safari corrects the URL if I have visited the website in the past. It does this even if I delete the autocomplete text. It doesn't work if I type in a URL that is new. Firefox does a Google search for fixing this, but I am fine with the way Safari works.
I think you messed up the "Search Domains" section in your network preferences. Normally you don't need to add com there but you can give it a try. Make sure there is nothing weird in the list and check the preferences for all network connections you use (e.g. AirPort and Ethernet). Quote from the Help:
The search domains you enter in your Network preferences are automatically appended to names you type in Internet applications.
For example, if you specify the search domain apple.com, typing ?store? in your web browser takes you to store.apple.com. Or, if you use campus.university.edu as a search domain, you can type ?server1? in the Finder?s Connect To Server dialog to connect to server1.campus.university.edu.
I am not waiting for the autfill to come in. If I type "ibm" and then hit enter, I get an error page.
There is an issue.
It has always worked in tiger. It has never worked in any of my Windows boxes.
Tigers Safari added the ".com" after getting to the site regardless of any previous visit or bookmark. all I had to do was type the domain name (ie:ibm) and hit enter. If the site ended in .com, I would be there. It is a real time saver. If the site ended in .org, .net, etc., I would manually add it in.
I find it almost impossible to be an ISP issue, given that the issue was not present at 12:00 when using tiger, but was at 2:00 right after the Leopard install. It must be Safari related.
Someone on the Apple support forums recommended using OpenDNS, but it does not seem to correct this issue on everyone having this issue. Apparently, it is a wide-spread issue with the Leopard version of Safari. Apple is not commenting, however.
I'm still running 10.4.11 (not willing to upgrade to Leopard yet until post 10.5.2, plus it gets better support from the Apps I use). You're quite right that Safari on Tiger behaves exactly as you've said. I just tried it.
For me though it's not something I ever use, as URL auto-complete takes precedence over this feature, and 99%+ of the URLs I type in directly are either in my history or in my bookmarks.
I think you messed up the "Search Domains" section in your network preferences. Normally you don't need to add com there but you can give it a try. Make sure there is nothing weird in the list and check the preferences for all network connections you use (e.g. AirPort and Ethernet). Quote from the Help:
The search domains you enter in your Network preferences are automatically appended to names you type in Internet applications.
For example, if you specify the search domain apple.com, typing ?store? in your web browser takes you to store.apple.com. Or, if you use campus.university.edu as a search domain, you can type ?server1? in the Finder?s Connect To Server dialog to connect to server1.campus.university.edu.
unfortunately, No, I never touched that section of the network prefs. I didn't alter anything. we are talking a stock, factory fresh, clean, brand new Leopard install here.
unfortunately, No, I never touched that section of the network prefs. I didn't alter anything. we are talking a stock, factory fresh, clean, brand new Leopard install here.
Ever think of trying the WebKit Nightly Build? Go to http://webkit.org/ and download it. It's worth a shot.
I just recieved Leopard for Christmas and I love it.
However, one issue annoys me to no end:
In Tiger, if I wanted to go to a web address that ends in ".com" all I had to do was type the domain name. No typing "www" at the beginning or ".com" at the end. This was enabled by default.
After performing a clean (erase and install) install of Leopard, it appears that feature is gone. I cannot find it in Preferences.
Can someone help me how to reinstate this useful and time-saving feature?
Not that this helps, but I recently purchased a Mac Mini and installed Leopard, and am having the exact same annoyance that you are. Unfortunately, I have not discovered a solution. I have the same problem with Firefox, so I'm thinking the issue may be with the OS, network settings, or even ISP. I do hope we discover a solution! Good luck.
You could try Firefox for mac. It behaves the same as Safari, even in the Windows version (although the Windows version doesn't always work as well as the mac version).
By the way, in Windows this is accomplished with Ctrl+Enter after typing the domain in most browsers including IE and Firefox. Obviously just enter is easier, just FYI since you said you manage some Windows boxes.
I'm still running 10.4.11 (not willing to upgrade to Leopard yet until post 10.5.2, plus it gets better support from the Apps I use). You're quite right that Safari on Tiger behaves exactly as you've said. I just tried it.
For me though it's not something I ever use, as URL auto-complete takes precedence over this feature, and 99%+ of the URLs I type in directly are either in my history or in my bookmarks.
Perhaps the fact that .com is how it "works" is a definite departure in Leopard Safari seeing as how if I type in a university without the edu it auto appends a .com on it.
It's first and foremost been a hack.
Getting rid of hacks in WebKit is a high priority.
Perhaps the fact that .com is how it "works" is a definite departure in Leopard Safari seeing as how if I type in a university without the edu it auto appends a .com on it.
It's first and foremost been a hack.
Getting rid of hacks in WebKit is a high priority.
You call it a hack, I cal it a useful time-saving feature. If you know your intended address is a .edu, .net, .org, etc., then you can just type it in. an automatic .com entry does nothing to hinder that. It is a highly valuable tool that only helps.
It makes no sense to remove it if indeed that is what transpired here.
I don't like Firefox much as I prefer Safari, and entering keyboard commands to insert ".com" seems like as much trouble as typing it in - as firefox requires.
Though Safari uses webkit, it can also have other features added. If this one is removed, it would seem like a foolish maneuver.
While I am somewhat encouraged that I am not the only one having this issue, it bothers me that it is happening at all.
On a side note, is everyone's Leopard OS using Preview to open web PDF's? Mine asks me to choose a PDF viewer and Preview is greyed out from that select screen. I am forced to use Adobe Acroboat CS3 Pro which I have installed. This never happened in tiger.
Man, some of these changes just scream "unfinished." I was going to wait until 10.5.2, but my wife surprised me for christmas along with an iPhone (she is the best I could have ever asked for - even without the Apple stuff).
Tiger felt extremely polished to me (purchased notebook in November '05) and ran perfectly. I couldn't imagine anything better. Well, with Leopard, that dream has been shattered. There are other issues as well, but these are the highlights for me.
You call it a hack, I cal it a useful time-saving feature. If you know your intended address is a .edu, .net, .org, etc., then you can just type it in. an automatic .com entry does nothing to hinder that. It is a highly valuable tool that only helps.
It makes no sense to remove it if indeed that is what transpired here.
I don't like Firefox much as I prefer Safari, and entering keyboard commands to insert ".com" seems like as much trouble as typing it in - as firefox requires.
Though Safari uses webkit, it can also have other features added. If this one is removed, it would seem like a foolish maneuver.
While I am somewhat encouraged that I am not the only one having this issue, it bothers me that it is happening at all.
On a side note, is everyone's Leopard OS using Preview to open web PDF's? Mine asks me to choose a PDF viewer and Preview is greyed out from that select screen. I am forced to use Adobe Acroboat CS3 Pro which I have installed. This never happened in tiger.
Man, some of these changes just scream "unfinished." I was going to wait until 10.5.2, but my wife surprised me for christmas along with an iPhone (she is the best I could have ever asked for - even without the Apple stuff).
Tiger felt extremely polished to me (purchased notebook in November '05) and ran perfectly. I couldn't imagine anything better. Well, with Leopard, that dream has been shattered. There are other issues as well, but these are the highlights for me.
It's a hack. You don't have a locally cached DNS registrar dbase to know which domain extension to append and thus they just added the .com to show a feature which is a hack but great for demos.
FWIW, I am running Leopard on Intel and Safari DOES add the .com to websites that are not in the AutoFill list. So the feature has *not* been removed. Or if it was removed, they put it back.
The only difference is that I am running the 10.5.2 developer build 9C7. The Safari build is Version 3.0.4 build 5523.15.
Is this the same Safari build that you guys who are having the problem are running?
You call it a hack, I cal it a useful time-saving feature. ...
I call it a bad idea. From the early days of the Web until recently, a lot of parents would have been in a real surprise when their children typed "whitehouse" if their browser autocompleted "whitehouse.com" when they were trying to reach "whitehouse.gov." As you may know, "www.whitehouse.gov" is the website of the President of the United States. Until recently, "www.whitehouse.com" was the most famous porn site on the web. As a general proposition, "convenience" is responsible for more feature-bloat and lost productivity than anything else in software development.
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I guess if it doesn't work on your machine then there may be an issue, but if you are just sitting there waiting for safari to auto-fill something that doesn't seem necessary then I wouldn't know how else to help you.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582/onyx
Go into the Automation tab and select everything except Repair Permissions. Then hit execute.
Also go into the cleaning tab, click on internet and then select all you want to clean. I don't usually clean cookies or form values.
Restart a couple of times after it is done and then see what you get.
Could you clarify: when you type "IBM" only into the address bar (and erase any autofill that it adds) and then hit Return, what do you get?
same result, goes to ibm.com
fresh/clean install of leopard here. Safari behaves the way mr. me says. As I typed in only "ibm" and hit return it went straight to ibm.com. then as I retried "ibm" it auto filled in teh .com
I guess if it doesn't work on your machine then there may be an issue, but if you are just sitting there waiting for safari to auto-fill something that doesn't seem necessary then I wouldn't know how else to help you.
I am not waiting for the autfill to come in. If I type "ibm" and then hit enter, I get an error page.
There is an issue.
It has always worked in tiger. It has never worked in any of my Windows boxes.
Tigers Safari added the ".com" after getting to the site regardless of any previous visit or bookmark. all I had to do was type the domain name (ie:ibm) and hit enter. If the site ended in .com, I would be there. It is a real time saver. If the site ended in .org, .net, etc., I would manually add it in.
I find it almost impossible to be an ISP issue, given that the issue was not present at 12:00 when using tiger, but was at 2:00 right after the Leopard install. It must be Safari related.
Someone on the Apple support forums recommended using OpenDNS, but it does not seem to correct this issue on everyone having this issue. Apparently, it is a wide-spread issue with the Leopard version of Safari. Apple is not commenting, however.
One more thing you could try but since you did a clean install I don't know if it will help or not. Either way, the following is a great utility for OS X and now it is is compatible with Leopard.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582/onyx
Go into the Automation tab and select everything except Repair Permissions. Then hit execute.
Also go into the cleaning tab, click on internet and then select all you want to clean. I don't usually clean cookies or form values.
Restart a couple of times after it is done and then see what you get.
I use MainMenu for OS cleaning. Since I was having these issues, I dL'd it and clean house. Then I reset Safari, deleted the plists, repaired permissions, cleared PRAM and NVRAM, restarted, tried as other user, etc. No good.
It is sort of a pain. Safari has spoiled me to the point that I hate to even use firefox. I just want this feature to work. When I type a domain and hit enter, it should take me directly to www.domain.com
It's just impossible to say whether it is webkit prefs, Safari prefs, input managers, text encoding, or what.
I forget it anyone advised testing starting up with extensions off. Shift-reboot.., hold Shift until desktop appears.
The search domains you enter in your Network preferences are automatically appended to names you type in Internet applications.
For example, if you specify the search domain apple.com, typing ?store? in your web browser takes you to store.apple.com. Or, if you use campus.university.edu as a search domain, you can type ?server1? in the Finder?s Connect To Server dialog to connect to server1.campus.university.edu.
I am not waiting for the autfill to come in. If I type "ibm" and then hit enter, I get an error page.
There is an issue.
It has always worked in tiger. It has never worked in any of my Windows boxes.
Tigers Safari added the ".com" after getting to the site regardless of any previous visit or bookmark. all I had to do was type the domain name (ie:ibm) and hit enter. If the site ended in .com, I would be there. It is a real time saver. If the site ended in .org, .net, etc., I would manually add it in.
I find it almost impossible to be an ISP issue, given that the issue was not present at 12:00 when using tiger, but was at 2:00 right after the Leopard install. It must be Safari related.
Someone on the Apple support forums recommended using OpenDNS, but it does not seem to correct this issue on everyone having this issue. Apparently, it is a wide-spread issue with the Leopard version of Safari. Apple is not commenting, however.
I'm still running 10.4.11 (not willing to upgrade to Leopard yet until post 10.5.2, plus it gets better support from the Apps I use). You're quite right that Safari on Tiger behaves exactly as you've said. I just tried it.
For me though it's not something I ever use, as URL auto-complete takes precedence over this feature, and 99%+ of the URLs I type in directly are either in my history or in my bookmarks.
I think you messed up the "Search Domains" section in your network preferences. Normally you don't need to add com there but you can give it a try. Make sure there is nothing weird in the list and check the preferences for all network connections you use (e.g. AirPort and Ethernet). Quote from the Help:
The search domains you enter in your Network preferences are automatically appended to names you type in Internet applications.
For example, if you specify the search domain apple.com, typing ?store? in your web browser takes you to store.apple.com. Or, if you use campus.university.edu as a search domain, you can type ?server1? in the Finder?s Connect To Server dialog to connect to server1.campus.university.edu.
unfortunately, No, I never touched that section of the network prefs. I didn't alter anything. we are talking a stock, factory fresh, clean, brand new Leopard install here.
unfortunately, No, I never touched that section of the network prefs. I didn't alter anything. we are talking a stock, factory fresh, clean, brand new Leopard install here.
Ever think of trying the WebKit Nightly Build? Go to http://webkit.org/ and download it. It's worth a shot.
Hello,
I just recieved Leopard for Christmas and I love it.
However, one issue annoys me to no end:
In Tiger, if I wanted to go to a web address that ends in ".com" all I had to do was type the domain name. No typing "www" at the beginning or ".com" at the end. This was enabled by default.
After performing a clean (erase and install) install of Leopard, it appears that feature is gone. I cannot find it in Preferences.
Can someone help me how to reinstate this useful and time-saving feature?
Not that this helps, but I recently purchased a Mac Mini and installed Leopard, and am having the exact same annoyance that you are. Unfortunately, I have not discovered a solution. I have the same problem with Firefox, so I'm thinking the issue may be with the OS, network settings, or even ISP. I do hope we discover a solution! Good luck.
By the way, in Windows this is accomplished with Ctrl+Enter after typing the domain in most browsers including IE and Firefox. Obviously just enter is easier, just FYI since you said you manage some Windows boxes.
Travis
I'm still running 10.4.11 (not willing to upgrade to Leopard yet until post 10.5.2, plus it gets better support from the Apps I use). You're quite right that Safari on Tiger behaves exactly as you've said. I just tried it.
For me though it's not something I ever use, as URL auto-complete takes precedence over this feature, and 99%+ of the URLs I type in directly are either in my history or in my bookmarks.
Perhaps the fact that .com is how it "works" is a definite departure in Leopard Safari seeing as how if I type in a university without the edu it auto appends a .com on it.
It's first and foremost been a hack.
Getting rid of hacks in WebKit is a high priority.
Perhaps the fact that .com is how it "works" is a definite departure in Leopard Safari seeing as how if I type in a university without the edu it auto appends a .com on it.
It's first and foremost been a hack.
Getting rid of hacks in WebKit is a high priority.
You call it a hack, I cal it a useful time-saving feature. If you know your intended address is a .edu, .net, .org, etc., then you can just type it in. an automatic .com entry does nothing to hinder that. It is a highly valuable tool that only helps.
It makes no sense to remove it if indeed that is what transpired here.
I don't like Firefox much as I prefer Safari, and entering keyboard commands to insert ".com" seems like as much trouble as typing it in - as firefox requires.
Though Safari uses webkit, it can also have other features added. If this one is removed, it would seem like a foolish maneuver.
While I am somewhat encouraged that I am not the only one having this issue, it bothers me that it is happening at all.
On a side note, is everyone's Leopard OS using Preview to open web PDF's? Mine asks me to choose a PDF viewer and Preview is greyed out from that select screen. I am forced to use Adobe Acroboat CS3 Pro which I have installed. This never happened in tiger.
Man, some of these changes just scream "unfinished." I was going to wait until 10.5.2, but my wife surprised me for christmas along with an iPhone (she is the best I could have ever asked for - even without the Apple stuff).
Tiger felt extremely polished to me (purchased notebook in November '05) and ran perfectly. I couldn't imagine anything better. Well, with Leopard, that dream has been shattered. There are other issues as well, but these are the highlights for me.
You call it a hack, I cal it a useful time-saving feature. If you know your intended address is a .edu, .net, .org, etc., then you can just type it in. an automatic .com entry does nothing to hinder that. It is a highly valuable tool that only helps.
It makes no sense to remove it if indeed that is what transpired here.
I don't like Firefox much as I prefer Safari, and entering keyboard commands to insert ".com" seems like as much trouble as typing it in - as firefox requires.
Though Safari uses webkit, it can also have other features added. If this one is removed, it would seem like a foolish maneuver.
While I am somewhat encouraged that I am not the only one having this issue, it bothers me that it is happening at all.
On a side note, is everyone's Leopard OS using Preview to open web PDF's? Mine asks me to choose a PDF viewer and Preview is greyed out from that select screen. I am forced to use Adobe Acroboat CS3 Pro which I have installed. This never happened in tiger.
Man, some of these changes just scream "unfinished." I was going to wait until 10.5.2, but my wife surprised me for christmas along with an iPhone (she is the best I could have ever asked for - even without the Apple stuff).
Tiger felt extremely polished to me (purchased notebook in November '05) and ran perfectly. I couldn't imagine anything better. Well, with Leopard, that dream has been shattered. There are other issues as well, but these are the highlights for me.
It's a hack. You don't have a locally cached DNS registrar dbase to know which domain extension to append and thus they just added the .com to show a feature which is a hack but great for demos.
The only difference is that I am running the 10.5.2 developer build 9C7. The Safari build is Version 3.0.4 build 5523.15.
Is this the same Safari build that you guys who are having the problem are running?
You call it a hack, I cal it a useful time-saving feature. ...
I call it a bad idea. From the early days of the Web until recently, a lot of parents would have been in a real surprise when their children typed "whitehouse" if their browser autocompleted "whitehouse.com" when they were trying to reach "whitehouse.gov." As you may know, "www.whitehouse.gov" is the website of the President of the United States. Until recently, "www.whitehouse.com" was the most famous porn site on the web. As a general proposition, "convenience" is responsible for more feature-bloat and lost productivity than anything else in software development.