Help I'm getting unexpected and retrogressive URL behaviour in Safari.

[inscrewtable]

My old MacBook running Catalina always fills in the URL if I've visited it before up to the dot com. So If I type in NY it will fill out nytimes.com nothing after the .com. And this is for all the websites.

Yet on my M1 MBP running Sonoma, it operates like something I vaguely remember from the past. So if I type NY it will fill out some random page I've visited in the past, that means I have to type the full address, nytimes.com then I have to hit delete to get rid of the rest of the unwanted url.

I've gone through all the preferences a few times and I am unable to find anything that can revert back to as I have said in the first paragraph

I find it impossible to believe that apple would go back to this behaviour so there must be something I've missed.

thx

 

[bogdanw]

The Smart Search field has a bug in Safari 17.4
I've started a thread here https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...show-favorites-broken-in-safari-17-4.2421832/
and sent a bug report here https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

 

[inscrewtable]

FFIW I am on Safari 17.3.1, I just see that I'm on sonoma 14 .3 for It did not update automatically so I've forced it. I'll report back if it fixes safari for me. It can't be any worse.

 

[inscrewtable]

Update: Although I have set auto updates it didn't, Safari 14.4 has fixed the URL problem for me at least.