[mac4theblind] Re: Is it possible to turn off auto fill in Safari's address bar? If so how can I do it?

  • From: Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:41:01 +0000

Hi John and David, thanks for your feedback I will do this once in a while and 
see what happens. 
Just to be clear I did a quick google search and was told that the cache thing 
is located in the Safari menu bar. 
On 26 Jan 2012, at 21:07, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:

> It is not possible but you can mittigate it by keeping your history and cache 
> clear.
> 
> On Jan 26, 2012, at 4:03 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> 
>    OK, I thought that had a checkbox for that.  Am I imagining things, or 
> does anyone know if this has changed from previous versions of the OS?  I 
> could swear there was a place to disable that in Safari preferences.  I might 
> have to do a google search.
> 
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> On Jan 26, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
> 
>> Hi John, I've done as you suggested and selected the "auto fill tab" but 
>> having a look at my options in there, I couldn't find the one I wanted. 
>> To be clear, I want to turn off Safari automatically filling in the address 
>> bar when ever I go to type a web site I know. 
>> 
>> Thanks so far though. 
>> 
>> Daniel 
>> On 26 Jan 2012, at 20:15, John Panarese wrote:
>> 
>>> You can turn off auto filling in Safari preferences.  VO space on the Auto 
>>> Fill button or, if you can't initially find it, navigate to the toolbar and 
>>> interact with the toolbar.  Once you VO space on auto fill, just tab and 
>>> uncheck what you don't want to be automatically filled in.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Take Care
>>> 
>>> John D. Panarese
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>>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all, subject says it all. I just like to be able to write in the web 
>>>> address myself with VO and at times I find it trys to auto fill and 
>>>> basically want to know if there is a way I can turn this off. 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks 
>>>> 
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