What happened to the Google search window at the right hand corner of the menu bar in Safari? It's outrageous that it's been removed, and cannot have been done with the user in mind. Is there any way to restore it?
IMac-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Just type your search into the address line as you would a URL. It works well and gives you more room to see what you've entered.
Bernard ~
Smart search field
Safari now has one field for typing both search terms and web addresses. When you type in the field, Safari detects a likely web page match based on your previous browsing and presents it as a Top Hit. Top Hit suggestions improve as you select the results. (Source)
...If you don't like it, let Apple know here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
...and there no longer seems to be any way to clear the search history like when it was a separate box. 😠
OK, I figured out how to easily clear the search history: Type a space in the address bar! It pops up a menu of your recent searches along with the option to "Clear recent searches", as well as letting you change the default search engine.
Also, in Safari's preferences, under Privacy, there is a new option "Prevent search engine from providing suggestions", which is useful for those who don't want all the crud when they start typing an address.
Safari 6 is officially the fastest web browser for me.
If you want to disable Safari's history's cache, clear your history first, exit safari and then go to
~/Library/Safari/History.plist and lock that file via the 'Get Info' menu option.
That's brilliant! Is this documented anywhere or did you just stumble onto this?
Now if they would have just put a little more thought into the unified address bar. Such as giving us some prefs to decide whether we want it to go to google or dot com. Or a modifier key or something. As it is now...it's just wrong and slow.
More like a step sideways, improved some things like the search bar, but other things they left out.
I just happened onto it after playing around a bit. I'm glad if you also found it useful.
Does "Prevent search engine from providing suggestions" actually work under Mountain Lion? It isn't working for me in Safari 6 for Lion.
It is working for me in Mountain Lion. I'm glad they put that in. It was annoying me to see a bunch of weird Google suggestions when I'm typing addresses or bookmark names.
yeah, it's fast if you have one page open...... open a whole bunch of tabs and it turns into treacle pretty **** quickly
(wow, Apple..... you think d_a_m_n is a curse word?)
Safari is a step backward in Mountain Lion!
