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One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would f
type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter [...] Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net
But not on Macs. I've never been able to get these tricks to work on the Mac, which sucks because I use them all the time on my Windows machines. But then Safari is more than good enough, so... I wish it had this feature, though.
Safari has had autocomplete built-in for a while. Start typing in the address bar and it shows a progressively-shrinking drop-down menu of matching urls from your history & bookmarks, sorted by frequency of visit.
Even better, go install the Sogudi extension. You get a customizable list of search engines and abbreviations, so that you can type "goo britney spears" or "mov king kong" or "amz oprah book club" and immediately get the google, imdb, or amazon results for those queries. Comes with about a
Yes, I'm aware of all that. The Firefox autocomplete which we were talking about is different, and something I wish Safari could also do, for those sites which I don't visit often enough to have in my bookmarks or history, or for those times when I want to go to a sogudi site's front page rather than search it. It's a silly little thing, only not having to type in "www." and ".com" or ".org" or ".net" - but it's usually the silly little things that one misses.
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URL Autocomplete (Score:4, Insightful)
One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter .org, and Shift+Enter .net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would f
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)
But not on Macs. I've never been able to get these tricks to work on the Mac, which sucks because I use them all the time on my Windows machines. But then Safari is more than good enough, so... I wish it had this feature, though.
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)
Even better, go install the Sogudi extension. You get a customizable list of search engines and abbreviations, so that you can type "goo britney spears" or "mov king kong" or "amz oprah book club" and immediately get the google, imdb, or amazon results for those queries. Comes with about a
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)