If Safari could do one more thing...

Neuski

May 20, 2008, 3:55 AM #

I have never used that feature.

Jeff

May 20, 2008, 4:36 AM #

It's like the best shortcut ever, and surprisingly few people know about it. Type campusfish, ctrl/cmd-Enter, bam, you're there.

Neuski

May 20, 2008, 4:59 AM #

I've known about it for a long time but I never started using it. I'm not sure why because I love shortcuts.

Diana

May 20, 2008, 1:23 PM #

for me it's just faster to type www

JRY13SP

May 20, 2008, 2:28 PM #

You learn something new every day.

ds

May 21, 2008, 12:32 AM #

In safari, you just type what you want... "yahoo" and then hit return, and safari replaces that with "www.yahoo.com". At least that works for me.

Alex

May 21, 2008, 12:43 AM #

We've talked about this before. Jeff will tell you that Safari wastes precious time pinging "yahoo" before it tries "yahoo.com".

Neuski

May 21, 2008, 1:25 AM #

I'll admit that just typing "yahoo" takes noticeably longer to load.

Jeff

May 21, 2008, 1:56 AM #

Actually, in my case it pings OpenDNS momentarily, since that's what I use for nameserver lookups. That's a wasted trip and redirect.

draegs

May 23, 2008, 4:37 PM #

Do this:

Go to Safari -> Preferences
Click on "Advanced" at the top
Click "Change Settings..." next to Proxies
Click on the DNS tab
Add the following two DNS servers on the left:

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2

That should allow you to enter just "yahoo" and have it load much faster.