MAKE URL AUTOFILL STOP!!!

When typing in a web-address, Safari adds text to the tail of what I've typed, so when I press enter it screws up my address. I have all of the autofill checkboxes disabled in the Preferences. How can I completely remove this annoying feature?
Example: While typing, 'http://mydomain.com/mybackpage', Safari adds text I don't want resulting in, 'http://mydomain.com/mybackpage/crudIdontwant.html'.
I'm aware that pressing delete will remove that bs but I shouldn't have to press delete to remove some crud that Safari inserts which happens a lot.

Darn, I thought I read somewhere it was possible to disable the feature entirely. I just found a few pages of other users moaning about autocomplete, and one suggestion has been locking the History.plist file. Apparently it won't allow Safari to save your history to the file.
Okay you can disable the History from Autocompleting, but I don't know of any way to prevent it from automcompleting from your booksmarks.
(1) In Safari go to History>Clear History
(2) Close Safari
(3) Go to Home>Library>Safari
(4) Get Info on the File History.plist
a) Change Ownerships & Permissions to Read Only
b) Check the locked tab on top
c) Click on the little lock icon on the bottom
Safari stills remembers the history until you close Safari I wish I knew of a way to stop autocompleting from bookmarks Safari's autocompletion is its worst feature

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1. Press the down-arrow key. (Credit to ASC member iNeight.)
2. Quit and relaunch Safari. Force quit if necessary.
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cheers Barde
Last edited by Heller_Barde (2009-02-17 18:50:05)

i was actually kinda kidding about the licensing. it was very late and i was very tired so I decided i wanted to do a little bit of effort and make a real description and a license. it was even funnier considering the tinyness of the script
cheers Barde
Last edited by Heller_Barde (2009-02-17 18:35:14)

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