Safari not responding to the "enter" key

this might be a simple answer, but when i type in a URL in the address bar, and hit "enter", nothing happens. if i manually click the "go to" button on the address bar, it works fine. the enter key works on everything else, as well it works in firefox. so there must be something wrong with the safari application because it only doesnt work on the address bar? its a huge pain to have to click "go to" every time i want to go to a new page

Safari, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Nov 24, 2007 8:58 AM

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Dec 5, 2007 12:49 PM in response to Matt Tribe

I am having the same issue... I installed the OS 10.4.11 update, which includes Safari 3, and now Safari is behaving badly. I tried uninstalling (deleting) Safari and reinstalled the 10.4.11 update, but now I don't even see Safari in my app folder... but a program called "japanese.lproj" opened and acted just like Safari... for now I renamed it "Safari.app" and put it in my App folder. I'll reinstall Safari (if possible) from my Tiger Install disc, then try the upgrade again.

Here's problems I notice so far:
1) I type any URL into the address bar and hit "enter or return" but nothing happens. I have to refresh the page (curved arrow button or CMD+R on keyboard) to make the URL load. Stupid!

2) The "Google" Search are to the right of the URL address window doesn't work. I can type a search item in the google area and hit "enter" or even click the go button to the right, and still NOTHING happens. I have to manually type www.google.com into the address bar, refresh the page, get to Google homepage and do my searches from there.... what a pain!

Please help me resolve this. Thanks.

Dec 5, 2007 1:20 PM in response to vizualgraphix

Hi,

Go to these 2 locations to see if you have any 3rd party extensions and move anything present in them onto your Desktop to deactivate them:

/Users/YourUsername/Library/Input Managers/
/Library/Input Managers/

Restart Safari to pick up the change. If it works now, you can try moving the items back one by one until you find the culprit.

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Dec 11, 2007 4:21 AM in response to iBod

if you are like me and there is no folder named "Input Managers" anywhere on your disk (for those who believe that I may be an idiot I used find / -type d -name "Input Managers" from a terminal) you may find that disabling Javascript helps.

Go to Preferences, Security, and uncheck Enable Javascript.

This will make surfing .... not very good. I find that I can just toggle the settings and get some useful surfing. When I need it I turn it on (like when posting to Apple's site). Otherwise leave it off.

Maybe Apple will fix this soon. Who knows.

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