I hate Verizon DSL

[Benjamindaines]

Well Verizon's gone and outdone their selves and turned Safari into Internet Explorer. My favorite thing about Safari was it's ability to let you type in the name of a website without http or www or .com (like this... "apple") and it would be smart enough to find the site and take you there. Now when I do that it has a livesearch-esque search. God they suck!

 

[rdowns]

Wouldn't changing your DNS lookup servers fix that?

 

[Benjamindaines]

Wouldn't changing your DNS lookup servers fix that?

And how do I do that? I don't want it to take me to another search page, I want Safari to work the way it used to (put in the .com and go).

 

[extraextra]

I use Verizon DSL with Firefox and Safari, and it lets me do that. I can just type in "Macrumors" and have it automatically take me to https://www.macrumors.com. Have you changed a setting somewhere?

 

[Benjamindaines]

I use Verizon DSL with Firefox and Safari, and it lets me do that. I can just type in "Macrumors" and have it automatically take me to https://www.macrumors.com. Have you changed a setting somewhere?

Nope, it just started happening. Maybe it hasn't been rolled out on your account yet? Are you running Leopard?

 

[jessep28]

And how do I do that? I don't want it to take me to another search page, I want Safari to work the way it used to (put in the .com and go).

Cox.net's DNS servers were giving me hell a few months back, so I switched mine to those from Opendns.com

They won't let you do what you want it to do (Apple = apple.com) though but it will get that live search page to go away. I know that in Firefox you can relate bookmarks to keywords so in the address bar a keyword will send you to that address.

 

[extraextra]

Nope, it just started happening. Maybe it hasn't been rolled out on your account yet? Are you running Leopard?

I hope that doesn't happen. :\

I'm using Tiger.

 

[balamw]

You sure you're not a victim of this trojan.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/379303/

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[yg17]

They won't let you do what you want it to do (Apple = apple.com) though but it will get that live search page to go away.

I use OpenDNS and just tried it in Safari, and it does work that way. Typing apple brings me to apple.com, ect.


Of course, I don't know why it's DNS server-dependent. If you type something in, and Safari realizes it's missing the .com, shouldn't it add it for you before even going to the DNS server?

 

[Benjamindaines]

You sure you're not a victim of this trojan.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/379303/

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Pretty sure... yeah....

 

[balamw]

Pretty sure... yeah....

Just asking, 'cause it sure sounds like the kinda thing you are experiencing. Has anyone else used you Mac recently...

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[blumoon]

I use Verizon DSL with Firefox and Safari, and it lets me do that. I can just type in "Macrumors" and have it automatically take me to https://www.macrumors.com. Have you changed a setting somewhere?

I have Verizon DSL too and it works for me.

 

[Benjamindaines]

Just asking, 'cause it sure sounds like the kinda thing you are experiencing. Has anyone else used you Mac recently...

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haha, nope.. just me. It does happen on other computers on my network. However, I did just buy an AirPort Extreme, anyway that a setting in it could effect this (possibly kill it )?

 

[Elixer]

I have Verizon DSL too and it works for me.

It works for me also.

 

[Drumjim85]

i LOVE my verizon FIOS

 

[Benjamindaines]

Alright, I found some info on their website. All I had to do was change the DNS address so it had a .14 on the end, just did it in system preferences and now all is good =]

I don't know why some of you with Verizon DSL aren't seeing this like I am... hmm.