separate address and search bar in safari 6

lupinglade wrote:

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Apple please add an option to turn off the OmniBar and have separate URL and SEARCH fields. It is extremely annoying!

If that's what you want in a browser, download Firefox. Furthermore, this is a user-to-user community. You're talking to other Apple users here, not Apple itself.

pinkstones wrote:

lupinglade wrote:

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Apple please add an option to turn off the OmniBar and have separate URL and SEARCH fields. It is extremely annoying!

If that's what you want in a browser, download Firefox. Furthermore, this is a user-to-user community. You're talking to other Apple users here, not Apple itself.

Thank you for your (lack of) insight, but I like Safari and do not want to use Firefox. I just don't like the OmniBar. Further, do you really think no one from Apple reads these forums, ever? Would seem smart for them to look at large threads about one complaint like this one and take it as possibly useful user feedback.

Apple doesn't read these forums, no. This is strictly a user-to-user community. If you want Apple to read your feedback, you have to leave them feedback, not rant here.

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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I am not liking that everything I do goes automatically to google..... it was bad enough previously. Also I can't really tell if I'm typing a URL correctly anymore because search gets mixed in....

There is no way to change the "smart search field".

If you have cloned backup, you can revert back to previous version.

Best.

You can change the search engine by going to preferences. I just changed it to yahoo.

Maybe it wasn't developed in favour of the user and those keystrokes going to google isn't just a coincidence? Let's hope for some useful extention to bring back the search field.

Another +1 here. Having separate search and address bars was one of the last reasons for me sticking with Safari instead of Chrome.

+1000.

I've hated using Chrome for that one reason. Now Safari does the same thing. I don't want my search cleaned on the next page load.

**** you Apple. I may just have to switch to Opera.

I agree with the above. It's frustrating and difficult to have both combined.

Sometimes this "progress" towards "smart features" just makes things less convenient, and less easy to use. The irony.

How about Omnieweb?

Just downloaded Omnieweb. Hello search window, goodbye Safari.

Omnieweb is now my default browser.

Thanks for the lead.

i just found this https://github.com/mcs07/AnySearch-safari-extension it disable the ''search functionality'' and add automatically the ''www.'' and the ''.com''

This is an awesome solution. I've just installed KeySearch (available through the same link) and it's already made my life easier.

Thanks for the lead, UncutVirus.

Bad move Apple, i really do not like the new combined URL bar. Please consider to develop a switch to select or not the new functionality like it was in 5 release.