Adding www. and .com to link

[LePigeonBleu]

Hey!

I am running SL on my Intel MacBook. Since I upgraded to either SL or Safari 4, I have not been able to type a link and have it add www. and .com to the link automatically. For example, typing "google" and having it automatically add the .com to it.

I've done some searching, and found out about OpenDNS. I would much rather not use anything like that to get my .com back. Does anyone know of a way to tweak some settings in Safari or SL to get it to do this automatically again?

Thanks,

m

 

[gooostovo]

+ enter does the trick for me.

 

[steezy1337]

ctrl + Enter should do it without going into a new tab

 

[dmmcintyre3]

The www. is not necessary at all, if the site wants to use it it will add it for you. Firefox will work like you want it, just tested it.

 

[LePigeonBleu]

ctrl + Enter should do it without going into a new tab

Doesn't work sadly.

+ enter does the trick for me.

apple + enter opens a new tab for me, and still doesn't enter the .com part.

 

[steezy1337]

Are you running the latest version? (4.0.4 i think) just tested it on my iMac and it's working fine, you could always try downloading Safari from Apple's website.

 

[LePigeonBleu]

Are you running the latest version? (4.0.4 i think) just tested it on my iMac and it's working fine, you could always try downloading Safari from Apple's website.

I am running the latest version, and I did try downloading it from Apple's website and no luck still.

m

 

[olvrfshr]

?

 

[BlueRevolution]

The www. is not necessary at all, if the site wants to use it it will add it for you. Firefox will work like you want it, just tested it.

Firefox uses Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search. For example, typing "Wikipedia" into the address bar will take you to .org not .com. With Keywurl you can set Safari up the same way.

 

[thelatinist]

The www. is not necessary at all, if the site wants to use it it will add it for you.

It should, but it won't always do so. The site admin has to set it up to do so, and too often they do not.

 

[RobertD63]

I have the same problem, and changing those DNS setting seem like a little bit to much work for me, and I might mess something up. Thats scaring me away, is their just a little freeware program? Asking too much?

 

[BlueRevolution]

A bit, yes.

 

[sammich]

http://glimmerblocker.org/

Is a proxy server (sits between your internet and your mac) and will add things like searching from your Safari location bar without resorting to 'hacks'.