Existing users, 
I'm using a MacBook Pro and MacOS X 10.4.11. I saw this app in the weekly VT updates email and decided to try it as a user, not developer. I visited several pages but noticed odd behavior when entering a URL. In all my Mac browsers, I use Cmd-L to highlight the Location field to enter a URL. In Sunrise, if I type "http://" after the second slash the field clears. What?!? If I enter something like "news.google.com" if works just fine completing the URL by adding the "http://" protocol prefix.
Is it just me?
Paul
Sunrise
Web browser geared towards web developers.
Version: 2.0.0 beta 4
entering a URL
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: corrp Sunday, February 24 2008 @ 05:49 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Comments
entering a URL - Rufus J
No, it's not just you. This is a unique and stupid behavior. Furthermore, Sunrise does not autocomplete URLs for me. If I fail to enter a tld, Sunrise assumes I'm searching and returns se results. This is a very presumptious and unhelpful behavior and really irritates me. Some other browsers do this but offer a preference to change it, which Sunrise does not. Opera even allows you to create a list of tlds for it to try and set an order, e.g. one could ask the browser to look for a .org before it looks for a .com, etc... In this regard Sunrise is very inadequate.Sunday, March 30 2008 @ 07:53 AM PDT
entering a URL - igamogam
Sorry plaintiger but you are being overconfident.I agree it is pretty daft to use http:// or www anymore since years but sunrise performs a search for me too when I insert - for instance: "versiontracker" without a tld the result is http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=versiontracker
If I insert "versiontracker.com" I get http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=versiontracker.com
Oddly if I use "www.versiontracker.com" guess what I get http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www.versiontracker.com
The only way to access the site is to insert "http://www.versiontracker.com"
There seems to be no preference to switch off this behaviour.
So basically there is some sort of a bug which makes sunrise perform a search instead of accessing a URL and the autocomplete does not seem to work any more.
Apart from that I like sunrise but it seems to be getting slower, bigger, flakier and less reliable with time, mind you it is easy to whinge, I'm not a developer.
Monday, January 05 2009 @ 03:32 AM PST
entering a URL - swishboneash
I have the same issue. I hope a future version has a way to go to the URL directly rather than go to the search engine.Saturday, January 31 2009 @ 10:42 AM PST
entering a URL - plaintiger
yep, it's just you - in that nobody in their right mind types "http://" into a browser's address field. there hasn't been any reason to, at least not on the Mac, for at least ten years or so now. in a properly designed Mac browser there's no need or reason to type "http://", "www.", or even ".com" (you only have to specify the top-level domain if it's something other than ".com"). if you want to go to, say, http://www.versiontracker.com/, you should be able to simply type "versiontracker" and let the browser fill in the rest, and the very most you should ever have to type is, say, "versiontracker.com." "http://" and "www." are a given, and will be filled in automatically by any correctly written browser.Reply to This
Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 03:34 AM PDT