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Auto-Complete in the Safari Address Bar
http://instapaper.com used to be your saved Instapaper items. Now it’s the latest posts from givemesomethingtoread. To actually look at your saved items, you have to go to http://instapaper.com/u.
After going to http://instapaper.com for so long, Safari now thinks that that’s where I want to go when I type “inst,” so that’s what it auto-fills the address bar with. I actually want to go to http://instapaper.com/u, and I don’t see a way of telling Safari to unlearn that I want to go to http://instapaper.com when I type “inst” without telling it to forget all of my other preferences that Safari has set for me based on about a year of use.
I’m not going to nuke the entire site from orbit (it’s the only way to be sure), so I guess I’m stuck hitting the → key and then the ‘u’ key. Instapaper is a pretty trivial example of the auto-complete behaviour I’m talking about, but it’s one that I come into contact with multiple times a day.
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Interesting: typing in capital letters in Safari’s address bar causes different webpages to be the Top Hit. For me, if I type “inst” the Top Hit is “instapaper.com,” but if I type “INST” the Top Hit is “instapaper.com/bookmarklet/post_v5.” Feature or bug? You decide.
Also, I wish there was a Spotlight-esque way of dragging categories (Bookmarks, History, etc.) around to change the order of Safari’s auto-fill results. I’d write one myself, but as far as I know, there’s no way to get in there and mess with the algorithm/s Safari uses to generate those results.
