disable safari 5 search suggestions?

HI,

From the Safari Menu Bar click Safari/Preferences then select the Advanced tab. Select: Show Develop menu in menu bar. Then from the Menu Bar click Develop/User Agent / 4.0.5

Relaunch Safari in order for this change to be effective.



See if that makes a difference.










Carolyn 🙂

Hi Tran

With the introduction of any new version of Safari, 3rd party add-ons may become incompatible. Seems this is the case for Inquisitor. I haven't upgraded yet to v 5 (will do so soon), however, I suspect other add-ons such as Glims, SafariStand, 1Password, CosmoPod may not function either.

Incompatibility may also apply to 3rd party plug-ins such as Flash, Silverlight, Perian, Flip4Mac etc. However, this type of incompatibility usually points to the plug-in needing to be updated to recognize Safari 5. Same is true for secured paged (https) such as banking sites etc.

That Safari is now encouraging developers to create Safari extensions is a long over-due feature. This will lead to many more 3rd party additions to Safari, operating cleanly within the Safari's API (application programming interface), rather than through unorthodox alteration. Also, the appearance of this feature may mean Apple closed the back door on the existing 3rd party methodology.

I suggest you contact the developer of Inquisitor and ask when the add-on will be Safari 5 compatible, or a Safari extension will be developed. Without knowing what can or cannot be done in Safari 5, it may be that all existing add-ons will need to be modified to operate correctly in Safari. And that may take time.

As far as using a terminal command, sometimes these types of things lead to System corruption requiring a reinstall of the OS. In this case, I suggest you wait to see what developers can create before attempting anything "creative" yourself.

I just realized something. Are you running 10.6.3 or 10.6.1 ?





🙂

I understand 3rd party Glims is Safari 5 compatible. It has a search function similar to Inquisitors. You can download the latest version from here. Once installed, you'll find Glims preferences as a separate panel in Safari Preferences. In the subpanel, you'll see "search suggestions" etc. Modify as desired.

Just making sure. 🙂

You're welcome.

Please update your forum tag to 10.6.3 via the My Settings link on the right of the forum page.

When complete here, please mark this thread answered so others know your question has been addressed to your satisfaction.

Having this marked as resolved is misleading to other people who are searching to find a way to disable safari 5 search suggestions. There is no resolution to the problem stated in the heading so this was only a waist of time for me. A discussion board is set up to help others with the same problems. I would suggest changing the name of the message from disable safari 5 searching suggestions... to Inquisitor work around.

Apple will not allow Safari Users to disable this feature until they decide how, or, decide to improve how they log & share information about your web search-history with Google (no secret of course) - and the most effective way to do that in real-time at this point is by indexing & fetching that information from your web history (unless previously reset).

I personally find this feature is annoying - not because I feel that it's invasive... but because these types of features (google search page as well) are presented to the general public and marketed as "features" designed to enhance your web experience... Right... A real life saver...

It's not important whether we agree. The important question to ask is why/how Apple, Inc - who designed your OS, your iPod, and your iPhone... either didn't or couldn't program Safari with an option to Disable? Cui Bono?