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User profile for user: lukemayes8
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Safari Search bar, will not allow me to select anything below the first suggestion, automatically picks the top item.

Whenever I type something in the search bar on Safari and the suggestions pop up and I scroll down with my keyboard, the highlighted line keeps returning to the top line and highlighting that one.


No matter what I have tried it doesn't help, Chrome browser is fine so I have isolated it to just safari, its driving me insane.


If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated



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Posted on Jun 3, 2021 1:43 AM

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User profile for user: dominic23
dominic23
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Posted on Jun 3, 2021 3:31 AM

Go step by step and test.


1. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987

2. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.  

    Quote:


    It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. 

    And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and 

    the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.


3. Clear History

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac

    Please read the article before clearing history, 

    this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.


4. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t wohttps://support.apple.com/guide/safari/search-sfria1042d31/mac


5. Safari > Preferences > Search > Search Engine 

    Uncheck the box beside “Include search Engine Suggestions

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/search-sfria1042d31/mac

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User profile for user: dominic23
dominic23
User level: Level 10
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Jun 3, 2021 3:31 AM in response to lukemayes8

Go step by step and test.


1. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987

2. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.  

    Quote:


    It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. 

    And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and 

    the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.


3. Clear History

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac

    Please read the article before clearing history, 

    this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.


4. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t wohttps://support.apple.com/guide/safari/search-sfria1042d31/mac


5. Safari > Preferences > Search > Search Engine 

    Uncheck the box beside “Include search Engine Suggestions

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/search-sfria1042d31/mac

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Safari Search bar, will not allow me to select anything below the first suggestion, automatically picks the top item.

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