Safari’s Unified Address/Search Bar
Safari’s unified address/search bar still infuriates me, years later. So many times a day I get incorrect autocompletes because it performs the wrong function, and not just once, but two or three times as I go to correct it. Hate this interaction so much
Then you try to copy the URL and get the last search text you used 😂
By default, I always type a space after something I want to search for, to stop Safari trying to guess what I actually want to do...
Worse yet is when it arbitrarily decides to parse a complete URL as a search query!
wait, so its not just me? I end up prefixing with a . or g because it either jumps my search term to a Siri suggestions website or decides the search term is a malformed web address and throws an error
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Funny, I find Safari’s unified search bar to be so much better than any other browser.
Oh and does it drive anybody else crazy when you try change the URL but if you do it too quickly it just reloads the same URL? INFURIATING.
I always have an issue where Safari seems to forget what my "Top Hit" is for various sites. For example, to get to this site I often just type "mj" and it comes up as my Top Hit. It will do these for several days in a row. Then suddenly it will completely forget. I'll type even "mjtsa" and still nothing comes up. Why? Who knows. I don't see this problem at all in other browsers -- for example, typing "mj" in Firefox always 100% gives me the URL to this site.
Safari is still a "mostly good enough, but not quite" browser. I still find it lacking in many ways, but I keep it as my primary browser because it's usually faster and more battery / RAM efficient than Chrome or Firefox.
