Typing URL in incognito difficult because it auto selects some result

frin

Steps to reproduce:

Have some link in your bookmarks or history, for example something on arstechnica.com
Go to incognito and type arstechnica.com
If you hit enter now, the bookmark or some other top result would be auto selected so you would actually open that page insted of root page

Expected behavior:
I would expect the browser to open arstechnica.com. What actually happens is, some random irrelevant link from the past is opened, for example from bookmarks.

This started happening with the last few versions (I don't recall exactly which one, on 0.99.122 it still worked decently.

The best solution is what Chrome has (and I believe Safari works in the same way) — by default it should select the root page for the domain, so https://arstechnica.com, and as alternatives any other option that you may have from bookmarks or history, and such.

I shouldn't type the whole domain name either, it should suggest arstechnica.com if I only typed "ars" if I had previously visited it.

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion v0.99.123.3-beta (WebKit 615.1.16.1), iMac 24" M1, macOS Ventura 13.2.1 build 22D68

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Vlad

frin Not able to reproduce.

Will need better steps starting from clean new orion profile.

frin

I will try to replicate it on a clean slate, however I think there is an issue with some delay until the browser forgets recently visited sites in normal mode (even when set to manual removal) and it starts to only recommend bookmarked results, so it will be a bit difficult and may take time to replicate it.

frin

You can close this as Chrome does a similar thing