Does Safari in OS X have a keyboard shortcut to complete a URL in the same fashion that Chrome does?
I'd like to be able to type in an incomplete address like askdifferent, press a key combo, and have Safari prefix it with www. and suffix with .com, and automatically navigate to that URL.
I've tried all various combination of fn, control, option,command, and return. Most of them will open your search in a new tab.
Does Safari support this, and what's the key combo?
Best Answer
Safari 8.0 does: Press and hold the Control key for a moment while you’re editing the location and you’ll see the search icon turn into an icon indicating that it’s interpreting the input as (part of) a URL instead of performing a search. The label “Search selected search engine” next to your text will change to “Go to Site” and the ‘Go to Site “your text”’ menu item in the completions list will be selected. Typing Control+Return will navigate there.
By the way, you can use Control+N (next) and Control+P (previous) to navigate through the completions list using the keyboard. (These are emacs-style navigation key bindings.)