Can someone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut for auto completing a URL in the safari address bar?
PS: Like in chrome or Firefox the keyboard shortcut is Control+return, Command+Return.
Can someone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut for auto completing a URL in the safari address bar?
PS: Like in chrome or Firefox the keyboard shortcut is Control+return, Command+Return.
There IS a way - in Safari Version 10.0.3 at least.
Type a slash ("/") after the domain name. As in,
semiconducted/<enter>
will resolve to www.semiconducted.com
Voila!
When the list of suggestions comes up use the up/down arrow keys to scroll through the options. Press Enter to accept the currently highlighted option.
command+return in Firefox is not really autocompletion: it just adds .com
From Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly: Miscellaneous
.com
Address: command + return.net
Address: shift + return.org
Address: command + shift + returnSafari does not offer this feature.
With the down arrow you can choose either
If you start to type anywhere you've ever been [assuming you don't delete your history] it will start to present a list of the most-used/most common possibilities.
Hitting Enter will go to the top hit; otherwise arrow down.
Otherwise, if there's nothing useful in history to auto-complete & you don't step down with the arrow key…
If it thinks it's a url it will automatically try .com first [& also it will test whether www. is needed, though that's less important these days]
If it can't completely figure out that what you're typing is a url it will send it to Google instead.
Based on my previous history, this is what happens as I slowly type 'apple.co.'
apple - [I spend a lot of time on Ask Different] ;)
apple.c
apple.co.
However, if I go off-piste & type something it doesn't have a hit for, like applez, it will switch to Google
BTW, I have a lot of the 'pretty' icons & helpers switched off, in prefs.