...and as a long-time Safari user i find the lack of a real address auto-complete function a serious annoyance. having to hit the down arrow or click in a drop-down list to go to the URL Firefox thinks it most likely i want to go to is an unnecessary step that i resent anew every time i type the beginning of a URL into the address field. in Safari, i type "ver" and hit Return and here i am at versiontracker. in Firefox, i type "ver" and unless i press the down arrow or click the URL i want in the drop-down list, hitting Return winds me up at verrents.com (the closest thing the 'net can find to ver.com, i guess). never heard of it.

Windows users are used to doing things the hard way; many of them even seem to secretly like it. but we Mac users prefer things to work in sensible and efficient ways that don't require us to take unnecessary steps to get from A to B. this address issue wouldn't be such a big deal if it didn't raise its ugly head every single time one starts to type a URL, but it does, and all that clicking and down-arrow pressing adds up to a good amount of time over a period of years of computing. why must we do that??