turn off 'wa' shortcut in Safari?
March 5, 2019 10:06 AM Subscribe
In Safari (11.1) on a Mac (10.12.6) when I type 'wa' in the address bar Safari interprets that to mean 'Wolfram Alpha' and loads the site, placing the rest of what I have typed into Wolfram Alpha's search and returning the results.
I live in Washington state and thus would prefer that when I type 'WA ST DOL' I am sent to a Google search for the Washington State Department of Licensing, not to Wolfram Alpha with the search terms 'ST DOL'. How can I smack Wolfram Alpha on the nose to keep it in line?
I further note that when the search term string is complete in the address bar, the address bar displays a prompt labeled 'search Google.' yet when I hit enter, the behavior described above the fold appears. Going manually to Google and entering any search term beginning with 'wa' does not autoforward to Wolfram Alpha.
Safari Preferences specify Google as the search provider and 'Include search engine suggestions' is not checked; the dropdown does not offer Wolfram Alpha. The 'Smart Search Field' settings shows 'Include Safari Suggestions' as greyed out, Enable Quick Website Search' is checked but 'Manage websites' does not include Wolfram Alpha, and the next two options having to do with preloads and favorites are active.
deactivating all these choices does not affect the behavior.
I live in Washington state and thus would prefer that when I type 'WA ST DOL' I am sent to a Google search for the Washington State Department of Licensing, not to Wolfram Alpha with the search terms 'ST DOL'. How can I smack Wolfram Alpha on the nose to keep it in line?
I further note that when the search term string is complete in the address bar, the address bar displays a prompt labeled 'search Google.' yet when I hit enter, the behavior described above the fold appears. Going manually to Google and entering any search term beginning with 'wa' does not autoforward to Wolfram Alpha.
Safari Preferences specify Google as the search provider and 'Include search engine suggestions' is not checked; the dropdown does not offer Wolfram Alpha. The 'Smart Search Field' settings shows 'Include Safari Suggestions' as greyed out, Enable Quick Website Search' is checked but 'Manage websites' does not include Wolfram Alpha, and the next two options having to do with preloads and favorites are active.
deactivating all these choices does not affect the behavior.
Best answer: Do you have this Safari Keyword Search extension installed?
posted by mbrubeck at 10:15 AM on March 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by mbrubeck at 10:15 AM on March 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Do you have this Safari Keyword Search extension installed?
By Jove, I do! My god, when on earth did I do that? Will investigate further. acidnova, your suggestion seems reasonable too. kalessin, I did just run my eye over the text shortcuts and did not see it in there.
posted by mwhybark at 11:44 AM on March 5, 2019
By Jove, I do! My god, when on earth did I do that? Will investigate further. acidnova, your suggestion seems reasonable too. kalessin, I did just run my eye over the text shortcuts and did not see it in there.
posted by mwhybark at 11:44 AM on March 5, 2019
Response by poster: ... and there it is:
Removed.
posted by mwhybark at 11:47 AM on March 5, 2019
Keyword:
wa
URL expansion:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=@@@
Removed.
posted by mwhybark at 11:47 AM on March 5, 2019
Response by poster: Given that I don't recall installing it, I have not likely adjusted any of the shortcuts. Here is the rest of the default list:
posted by mwhybark at 11:49 AM on March 5, 2019
g
http://www.google.com/search?q=@@@
a
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dblended%26field-keywords%3D@@@
d
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=@@@
down
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/@@@
e
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?satitle=@@@
gl
http://www.google.com/search?q=@@@&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky
gm
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=@@@
imdb
http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=@@@
so
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=@@@
w
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%%%
y
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=@@@posted by mwhybark at 11:49 AM on March 5, 2019
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posted by acidnova at 10:13 AM on March 5, 2019