I have an annoying problem in Leopard where typing a domain name and pressing return does not add www. and .com on and instead re-directs me to a page by my internet provider, Verizon, with a list of links. This does not happen in Tiger in the macbook even in the same household. Is there a workaround if it's an ISP issue with Leopard?
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Safari in Leopard does not automatically add .com
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Actually, that thread doesn't solve anything. I do not observe this problem in Tiger so it appears to be a Leopard issue. Does anybody have a workaround?
I changed DNS to openDNS and it's a good workaround. However, it seems to slow loading speed considerably as it first directs the page to http://guide.opendns.com/?url:domainname before going to http://www.domainname.com. Safari in Tiger doesn't seem to do that and instead automatically adds www. and .com to the domain name. Is this a feature (or lack thereof) of Safari 3 in Leopard?
I'm not lazy so I finish urls on my own and this isn't a big deal for me (I didn't even know about it). It's four characters, or one quarter of a second.
I was having same issue and adding just 4.2.2.1 to DNS as below seems to now have ".com" autocomplete as before. I tried a few company names I don't surf to and they all seemed to work fine. Thanx.