Auto fill URL's

I have a non earth shaking question that seems to be the opposite of everyone else I find in search. Why do some URL's always come up in the address line when I start an address--for example all I have to do is type an "A" and amazon comes up even if I haven't been there for months, and other addresses won't appear even tho I was there recently. For example-- www.macrumors.com seems to be easily forgotten. I would like the machine to remember some of these addresses so my lazy brain doesn't have to. Any ideas? I don't start with a space either so I figure it should remember.
Thanks George

Hi George
The URL prompts are coming from your Bookmarks, Cache and History files. If MacRumors appears in one or more of those files, it ought to appear in the prompts.

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Hi Mike
From other related threads, seems a number of users are waiting for something different from Apple in this area. Sending feedback to Apple via the Safari Menu>Report Bugs to Apple is one effective way of reaching Apple Software Engineers.
In the meantime, the only effective work-around is to press the space bar before typing the URL. Of course, no prompts appear, however, the long list doesn't appear either.

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It's really annoying that in firefox you need to type two letters, then go down using the arrow and then hit enter.
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greene-r74 wrote:
I recently switched to mac and one of the little things that really annoys me is that I cant find out how to auto fill a URL when I'm on the internet. (automatically add the WWW and the .com) Ive tried both firefox and safari. In windows its CTRL+Enter. Ive tried command + return with some success but I think the only reason that works sometimes is that I may already ahve that URL in my bookmarks. Is there a way to do this in OSX?
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Since you are new to mac, you have not developed a browser history which the selfcomplete function uses to do what you are asking.
For instance if I enter g in the browser and wait a very short time, google.com pops up.
The http://www. is automatically added when you hit the enter key.
If there are many sites starting with g, they all appear in a dropdown menu. As I keep typing, the list shortens.
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Hi, Peter.
Well, again, the issue was reported with Chrome, so I'd use that to test. (IE might 'fill' the form in a way that ADF can detect it, whereas Chrome may fill the form in a way that ADF doens't sense it.) With Chrome, (using an address as the example), you'd go to the street address field, and Chrome would display a drop-down list of saved addresses. (You can set up the addresses in the settings page that I described above.) Once you pick from one of the addresses, it would fill in ALL of the address fields (e.g. street address, city, state, zip) for you. It is these other 'auto-filled' fields that ADF doesn't sense have anything in them.
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HI,
From your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Autofill tab. Click the Edit button next to *Other Forms*. Remove all.
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Quit Safari (Command + Q) Now open Keychain Access (Applications/Utilities) Select Passwords on the left. Delete any keychains for sites you have problems logging into.
Now relaunch Safari. Login to a site with your user name and password as you normally would, then click Yes when prompted. That will create a new keychain for you.
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Hi George
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.privacy_level
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
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