control+enter to autocomplete URL

Another question from someone new to the mac world....

I have had my macbook for a few months, and used to type in the basic information for a URL, and then press control+enter. This would add the www. before & the .com after (type in weather, then press control+enter & you'd get www.weather.com)

I recently found that this feature no longer works. I was not sure if it was an issue with my ISP - but have tried while connecting via mutilple ISPs (& using both airport & ethernet). I reset Safari. Of course, that cleared the history & cache - so there is no point of reference for the mac to use. If I type in www.weather.com, then clear history & type weather + the shortcut keys -- it works fine.

Is there some way to enable/disable the control+enter feature on a mac, or do I just need to enter each URL once for Safari to have it stored as a reference to auto complete later?

With your Mac, just substitute Windows key combinations that had Control with the Command/Apple key on your Mac. So to get Ctrl+Enter, you would instead use Cmd+Enter.

However, this feature works the way you want it to in Firefox, but when you do it in Safari, it'll do it, but open a new tab in the process.

Kash said:

With your Mac, just substitute Windows key combinations that had Control with the Command/Apple key on your Mac. So to get Ctrl+Enter, you would instead use Cmd+Enter.

However, this feature works the way you want it to in Firefox, but when you do it in Safari, it'll do it, but open a new tab in the process.

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actually the shortcuts seem to have nothing to do with it, I tried the following

aol
mxtabs
musiciansfriend
music123

Safari automatically added www. and .com to the sites without pressing Ctrl or Cmd