why do I have to type .com in safari now?

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why do I have to type .com in safari now?

I never used to have to type .com at the end of a url before. After upgrading to slow leopard and safari 4, I have to always type .com

17" MBP core2 duo 2.5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 6:05 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 16, 2009 6:32 PM in response to Doug Bassett

HI Doug,

From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences and select the AutoFill tab.

Make sure: Other forms is selected.

Carolyn 🙂

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Answer 2

Doug Bassett Author

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Oct 16, 2009 6:44 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Ya, the other forms option is checked but that is not it.
I also have a leopard sys with safari 3 and that works fine.

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Answer 3

Oct 16, 2009 6:55 PM in response to Doug Bassett

OK... try this...

Go to Safari/Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and and click Reset.

Go to Safari/Empty Cache.

Quit Safari

Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete all the sub-folders within that one.
Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete any of these files you have there:

• Downloads.plist
• History.plist
• LastSession.plist

Restart Safari and try to type in a web address.

🙂

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Answer 4

Doug Bassett Author

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Oct 16, 2009 7:51 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I see what your doing, but it is not what I want.
I don't want auto fill or finish typing. I want to type apple and hit return in the url field and have it go to Apples site.
I have always been able to do this in Safari since v.1.

I can still do it in OSX 10.5.8 but no longer in 10.6.1

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Answer 5

Paul4900

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Oct 17, 2009 10:58 AM in response to Doug Bassett

https://www.opendns.com/start/

Apply this to all your computers (or preferably to your router, then the DNS settings will be pushed to every computer on the network) and OpenDNS will automatically put the .com in for you instead.

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Answer 6

ClarkDV

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Oct 19, 2009 9:52 PM in response to Paul4900

All these suggestions are work-arounds. The problem, I'm having it too, is that Safari USED to add the ".com" for you, and now it doesn't. It's not just on Snow Leopard, my home iMac running Leopard and Safari 4.0.3 has stopped adding the ".com" also. I think it started around 4.0.1 or so.

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Answer 7

rmeaux

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Jan 3, 2010 7:33 PM in response to Doug Bassett

Every time I find this topic someone always says quit being lazy and just type it or bring up that it needs to be in your history/bookmarks. Safari used to put www. and .com in automatically when you put in your domain name "x" and simply hit enter. Mine quit doing it when I went to safari 4.0 and now at 4.0.4 still no luck and no fix. It was a nice feature and I liked it. It's not a bad thing to want something back you were used too.

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