Safari: How can I have a drop down listing of my history without typing?

timswim78

timswim78

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In Firefox and Internet Explorer, a user can click an arrow at the right end of the address bar, and it allows the user to a view a drop down listing of recently typed in URL's. In Safari, this drop down listing is only enabled once a user begins typing an address. Is there a way to view a drop down of recently typed URL's in Safari without typing an address?
 

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Yes, that works to show the URL's that I typed in this session. Is there a way that I can do it to view the URL's that I typed in previous browser sessions?
 
Look in your History Menu. Safari remembers about a week's worth of webpages you have opened.
 
The problem remains that Safari's autocompletion of URLs is ridiculous. If I type in "www.", I get "www.apple.com/quicktime/pro", instead of just "www.apple.com" which I've also visited today.

Very, very rarely do people want to go to the most heavily nested document of a webpage from the Address Bar (and those that do should be the ones inconvenienced)– it should always cut the URL at the first "/", and if the person THEN types a "/", it can list all the subdirectories it remembers, and so on.

If a specific file was that important, we'd use Google, or our real History.
 
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