You are not crazy. There is a bug in the last 2 minor releases of Safari where you can type in or paste a link and it'll just end up reloading the same page. You can do this several times. It drives me mad, quite honestly. But it is indeed a bug. No idea why. I doubt it's related to this suggestion feature.

Ah so I’m not going crazy. These things are just... the type of bug that indicates a deeper issue in the code. Poor software engineering decisions, and many of them.

Mobile Safari had a bug for a year where the zoom function would get stuck somehow, breaking rendering completely. I wonder how that happened too.

I have this problem too. I've been searching for others having the same issue for forever and this is the first time I've seen any mention of it. I submitted feedback to Apple with a screen recording but nothing ever came of that.

It seems like it has something to do with the cadence of when I press the return key while it's loading suggestions into the autocomplete dropdown. It's almost as if pressing return is selecting an item that isn't in the dropdown list yet. If I paste a URL and wait a second or two I never have that problem. It's when I'm moving quickly that I frequently run into it.

This infuriates me every single day, and it also happens when just editing the URL of the current page.

Typing a space at the end of the URL and waiting a second before hitting enter seems to circumvent this issue.

Yep, I get this constantly in both Catalina & Mojave across two different Macs. Drives me crazy.

i was hoping someone would bring this up. it happens to me all the time.

Me too!

I've seen this too, but never figured out why it's doing this. If the underlying bug is some sort of timing related thing, then it might be related?