Cursor jump from Safari to Yahoo browser while typing

Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Type or copy paste the following:

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

If that didn't help, with Safari open, press Command , (comma) top open Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.

Message was edited by: CS

I switched my homepage to a my.yahoo.com page that I setup and it stopped. Can't remember if it was an optional preference within yahoo that I changed years ago, but I recall going through this before and now doing it again with Mavericks updates.

Carolyn: Nope. That didn't work for me and I am having this problem.

I think one of the issues is that it is difficult to describe, but I think you did a good job stikygum.

Though, I don't WANT to switch my home page. I like it how it is.

and I don't want the cursor to jump down to Google (for me, its Google), when I begin to type a search thus rendering a few seconds of my life irrelevant to the task at-hand.

I'm a man on a mission and need my tools to work.

Anyone else?

Any ideas?

We can't be the only three.

Yahoo's home, like many google search pages, and http://www.wikipedia.org use 'autofocus' or javascript to place the cusor in the search box. Safari follows that & has no simple way to tell it not to, short perhaps, of a Safari extension to put it back in the address bar, IF it's a particular page etc.

I don't know of any, but Apple extensions gallery may have something.

I have the same issue using Google as homepage....it is very annoying to see a word split between the two bars and i have to start typing all over again

OK I have searched for the answer on this and not found it either online - BUT

I have reset my homepage in preferences to https://www.google.co.uk (or .dom) and this has stopped the annoying thing happening! (NOTE the S - httpS://www.........

Hope that helps!

Thanks so much Digital Elf- this seems to help the problem!

Digital Elf nailed this one. Whatever your home page is, just type "s" to define it as https. In my case, http://www.yahoo.com became httpS://www.yahoo.com. No more jumping around. Thanks.🙂

I tried this, but it has no effect. Any other way to keep Yahoo from stealing cursor focus?

You might try a different yahoo page : perhaps the news tab. That seems not to grab focus here.

I jumped the gun saying that it worked. It seemed ok when I tested before sending off my reply to the post, but a few hors later, I had the same problem. Think I'll download Chrome or Firefox to see if anything changes.

I have the exact same problem and I hate it! I don't want to change my,yahoo as my homepage, but I am considering it as it is very annoying. I am using Safari 7.05,but I think this happens since at least one earlier version. Does anybody now if the problem is Safary or is it yahoo?

I've avoided asking about this problem because I thought it was hard to explain the annoyance of it. I'm thankful this group started the conversation. I must waste 10-15 minutes a day on having to retype my searches due to this issue. I've personally only noticed it after the last Safari update to 7.0.5.

I have been annoyed by this issue and was finally able to stop it by using the https convention. Thanks to all for getting this resolved.