Lately, Safari fails to follow links if they're near the bottom of the window. Cursor change and hover highlight work as usual but a click doesn't follow the link. If I scroll the page up so the link is mid-window, then the link works. Sometimes I have to shrink the window to get the page to scroll. Sometimes dramatically resizing the window--wide or narrow as possible--will get the link working at the bottom of the window. Sometimes a page reload will get the link not working again. Finally, it's rare but sometimes a low-on-the-page link does work. I don't see a common denominator yet. I have no extensions enabled, and clearing website data had no effect. I added a new user account to my Mac and Safari works fine on that login. How do I even debug this? UPDATE On first launch of Safari, link behaves. Drag right edge of window back & forth then let go at a (probably) different size than original, and the bad behavior returns. Same result with shift-click launch of Safari UPDATE 2 Using Web Inspector, I set a breakpoint on the link's click event which is in some website-local javascript. When the link is scrolled low on the window the click even doesn't happen; scrolled high I get the breakpoint. So what could be making Safari not fire the click for an element it's happy to highlight? Thanks for insight.

I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 7. Previously, when I clicked on a link from an e-mail telling me about a group discussion in LinkedIn, it opened LinkedIn in Safari and took me right there. Now, Safari launches, but then as it processes, it then launches the LinkedIn app. The problem is, most times the discussion in LinkedIn is really just a link to a webpage. I'd rather just stay in Safari, especially since the LinkedIn app takes forever to load. I'm sure Safari does this with other apps, however, the circumstances haven't come up yet for me. I can't find it in the Safari settings or LinkedIn settings to stop this. Updated to add: I have found that if I go back to Safari after it tries launching LinkedIn and force a page refresh, Safari will load the mobile (rather than app) version of LinkedIn as desired.

I am using Alacritty terminal for quite some time and it has a great feature to follow hyperlinks when clicking Ctrl+Shift+U. I am using MAC so a default program is open. Iam trying to add one more section [[hints.enabled]] command = "vim" # On Linux/BSD # command = "open" # On macOS # command = { program = "cmd", args = [ "/c", "start", "" ] } # On Windows hyperlinks = false post_processing = true persist = false mouse.enabled = true binding = { key = "F", mods = "Control|Shift" } regex = '(\n|.)*/\.[^/]*[^~]' The goal would be pretty straightforward. If Alacritty finds on a current focused terminal paths like lines below, I would like to follow them with vim. ~/path/to/file.(whatever suffix) ../path/to/file.(whatever suffix) path/to/file.(whatever suffix) Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) (use "git restore ..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: .terraform.lock.hcl modified: main.tf ... etc ... Any ideas ? The problem is that even if I see in logs [DEBUG] [alacritty] Launched vim with args ["~/path/to/some/file.yaml"] nothing really happens. File is not getting opened in Alacritty with Vim. Thx

Right now I have a reminder in the Reminders app with a URL attached, that passes in this deep link: prefs:root=DO_NOT_DISTURB\* to the do not disturb section in the settings app, to a shortcut so the shortcut can open it: shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Set%20Do%20Not%20Disturb&input=text&text=prefs:root=DO_NOT_DISTURB. Here's a sample shortcut to show it: [https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/835b819d24c14386b8f6e072d034e3b3](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/835b819d24c14386b8f6e072d034e3b3) . The shortcut actions for doing so are in the photo below. I want a URL that can take me to the section in the Settings app directly from the reminder without having to pass it through a shortcut first. I tried variations of URLs like prefs://root=DO_NOT_DISTURB, prefs://=DO_NOT_DISTURB, prefs://?root=DO_NOT_DISTURB, and prefs://DO_NOT_DISTURB from this page but they didn't work: [https://github.com/bhagyas/app-urls?tab=readme-ov-file#settingsapp-preferences](https://github.com/bhagyas/app-urls?tab=readme-ov-file#settingsapp-preferences) . \* There's a whole list of settings deep links if you want to see: [https://github.com/FifiTheBulldog/ios-settings-urls/](https://github.com/FifiTheBulldog/ios-settings-urls/) **(I took these screenshots on macOS but the link and shortcut only works on iOS)**

I am using Word 16-72 on Ventura 13.4.1. I created a document with numerous hyperlinks to webpages and email addresses. Inside Word, I hover the mouse over the links and if I click, they work. When I export that document to PDF, only the email links work. The webpage links appear as blue text underlined, but nothing happens if I click them. I have the "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks" option turned on in "AutoFormat As You Type".

I'm using the Microsoft Outlook Mac client to read work email. Sometimes I want to open links in my default browser, and sometimes I want to open them in a different browser. When I right-click on a link it gives a few options: Copy Link and Share. Under Share, there are a few options that appear to come from the "Share Menu" in Preferences. Is it possible to create a new entry in the share menu such as "Open in Firefox" or "Open in Safari"? How would I do this without purchasing software to do it for me? I'm using MacOS Big Sur if that's relevant. I've seen this answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/121980/force-url-link-to-open-with-a-specific-browser but it does not answer my question. The answers talk about software that operates on rules to open different browsers; I want to choose which browser to open each time I right-click on a link. There is already a menu there; how do I add to it? Actually allowing even just one alternative to the default browser is sufficient for my purposes. The Automator looks promising: I was able to create a simple action to read aloud text highlighted on the screen. However, I want the action to operate on the link destination instead of the displayed text. I have created an action that calls a shell script but it doesn't appear in the context menu.

I work for an email marketing company where we send emails through SendGrid. The links go to ebay.com. SendGrid will wrap the links for click tracking purposes, so instead of the link appearing as https://www.ebay.com , it will be something like https://u99798501.ctc.sendgrid.net/ ... which will then redirect to eBay. We've noticed that when clicking on these SendGrid-tracked links that redirect to eBay, the links do not open in the eBay app, even though we have the eBay app installed. They will instead open up in Safari. Clicking on the https://www.ebay.com links without the wrapping will open in the links in the eBay app. This makes me think that the URL being wrapped by another URL is preventing Universal Links (links opening in the app) from working. However, we're pretty sure this did work at one point. Does anyone know the status of Universal Links with wrapped URLs? Did it change recently? The iOS version that we tested with is 17.5.1. We are opening links from the iOS Gmail app. Thank you!

I've created a URL link in my dock, however, the link only opens with the default browser. I have safari, Firefox, and chrome (latest being the default) installed in my machine. I'm wondering if someone knows how to default the link to open with Firefox instead of Chrome but still keeping chrome as the default browser. Note: I'm running Mavericks in my MacBook Pro.

Say I have two spaces: 1. Slack, VS Code, or some app 2. Safari/Edge/Chrome/etc. If I click on a link in an app in 1 I want it to open a new browser window in 1. Right now it switches to 2 and opens the window in an existing/open browser in 2. Is this possible? I saw some other similar questions but they are asking about using Apple Script and that is not what I want. Unless I have to somehow have some kind of intercepter for links.

How do I tell Safari to always open links as a new tab? I know about "Prefer tabs when opening documents" option. But it doesn't work with groups of tabs. If I'm using some active group of tabs - it creates new window.

Update: Apple has now added this feature to the iOS Mail app. See accepted answer for details. Original post: Using the standard iOS Mail app, how do you make a hyperlink from part of the text you are composing? In the animated gif below, I want to have the word "Lincoln" contain the hyperlink instead of pasting it below (which looks ugly), but as you can see there are no options to do so in the popup menus. Making links like this is easy here on StackExchange , within Gmail, Word, Excel, google Docs, etc... but for some reason, I've missed how to do it in the iOS Mail app. How can I get this level of polished mail with hyperlinks on iOS?

In a PDF document, apps such as Preview and Skim attempt to redirect to the Maps app when clicking on words that look like an address, e.g. "1987 Wall Street", instead of properly displaying the hyperlinks. How can I disable this "feature"? **Undesired Effect:** **Desired Effect:** Link to the PDF document for testing, if needed: PDF

URLs have long been the domain of web browsers, but some apps challenge this assumption by asking your browser to open a link in their dedicated app. ## Problem: Safari Keeps Asking Permission For example, I use Zoom.us, a videoconferencing service. They give me a link associated with my conference call that's easy to throw into a calendar invite, like https://ibm.zoom.us/j/9747900418 . When I click the link, my browser opens it, authenticates me, and asks me permission to open the link in *zoom.us.app*, which I've already installed. > Click Allow on the dialog shown by your browser > If you don't see a dialog, click Launch Meeting below > > Do you want to allow this page to open "zoom.us.app"? > Cancel | Allow After opening hundred of meetings this way, I'm sick of it asking me permission. I want Safari to remember that it's allowed to open zoom.us/* links in *zoom.us.app*. ## What I've Tried Under Safari > Preferences > Websites, I escalated privileges for Zoom-related items: - General > Auto-Play > ibm.zoom.us was "Stop media with sound"; set to "Allow Auto-Play" - Plug-ins > Zoom Launcher 3.0.1 > ibm.zoom.us was "Ask"; set to "On" - Plug-ins > Zoom Launcher 3.0.1 > support.zoom.us was "Ask"; set to "On" This had no effect. So how can I get Zoom links to open correctly?

Since 2016, Microsoft Excel has run in an [App Sandbox](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app_sandbox) on macOS. This means that a HYPERLINK function which points to a local path, like HYPERLINK("/Users/me/Desktop/example.pdf"), won't work. Clicking the hyperlink produces this error: The error can be worked around with this method of accessing files from the macOS App Sandbox : > The operating system implicitly starts security-scoped access on URLs passed from open panels, save panels, or **items dragged to your app’s icon in the Dock** … When the URL your app receives from a standard user interface interaction represents a folder, **the operating system extends your app’s sandbox to items within that folder, and recursively in nested folders**. Some items within the folder could still be inaccessible for other reasons. See “Diagnose other reasons your app can’t access a file,” below. That is, once the linked file, or its parent directory (in the above example /Users/me/Desktop), has been dragged from Finder to the Excel icon in the Dock, the link will work. However, this technique is not intuitive and there is no visual feedback to indicate that it has been performed correctly. I haven't been able to get the technique to work on all Macs. Sometimes, I have to take the additional step of creating a manual link to the parent directory with ⌘K (Insert Link) rather than the HYPERLINK function. Following this link will grant the permission required for function-based links into the specified directory to work. But this is also unintuitive because the open panel won't let you select a directory. You need to choose a file in the directory, then delete the filename from the end of the completed Address. Is there a simpler and more consistent way to work around the "Cannot open the specified file" error for HYPERLINK functions in Excel for Mac?

Within Photos, how to **move** a set of photos from one album to another one to change my library organization, **without duplicating** their names? Like you can move a file within the filesystem from one folder to another without creating a new name for it ( which can be achieved with symbolic links ). My photo library is pretty well organized as a tree of folders and within, each terminal folder a set of albums each with a meaningful name. Whenever a folder or album gets too large I create new sub-folders or albums and I would like to **move** albums and photos within this modified organization but without ever creating duplicate names. I don't want for any reason any duplicate name, and moreover I don't want any pair of names which are different and pointing in fact to the same photo: a **hidden duplicate name** ( folder_1/name_A → img4928.jpg and folder_2/name_B → img4928.jpg ). Such **hidden dupplicate names** would make a labyrinth, a mess of my photo library. I already tried many key combinations while dragging: ⇧+drag, ^+drag, ⌥+drag, ⌘+drag with no success. Why does this basic function seem to be hidden or… missing? The function of moving is much more useful in real life than the one of copying, when you want to maintain a huge data collection well organized. What I am looking for here is not an explanation of the internal functioning of Photos. I know it pretty well. For example when we **copy** a photo from album *A* to album *B*, internally there is no duplication of data, but just a duplication of name, both names pointing toward the same original photo.

Prior to MacOS Ventura, clicking on a web link within a PDF viewed in Preview.app would immediately open that URL in my default browser. Since upgrading to Ventura, however, clicking on such a web link pops up an interstitial dialogue asking me to confirm that I want to open this link in the browser. Whilst I appreciate the security hand-holding *in principle*, the fact is that I *always* want to open the link and, as somebody who opens quite a *lot* of links from PDFs in Preview, this additional step is just an irritation. **Is there any way to turn this new behaviour off?**
(Perhaps some hidden preference setting that needs a Terminal command to toggle on/off?)

I have got an iPad 6th gen which is updated to iPadOS 16.2. I sometimes use Google Docs to save some links (that open in Google Docs itself, I've set it to be like that). For example, I saved a link to archive.org , which I tried to access (it worked as usual), but when I wanted to make a search, the keyboard wouldn't show up. The input field shows a blue line (see circled part on screenshot below) as usual to show where I'm at when typing but not the keyboard! I need to copy text from Quick Notes (easiest way I found) and then paste it in the search bar. Here is a picture of it happening: I browsed answers on this website and on the internet for this kind of problem but I haven't found anything working for me. It happened to me this morning (March 8th, 2023) for the first time. How do you fix this problem? Thanks to any help that could be provided.

How do I get Mail to go back to pasting links into mail instead of converting them to oversize buttons?

I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine. The code of the file is as follows: [InternetShortcut] URL=https://www.textnow.com/login the file is saved with a ".url" extension If I double click on the file I'm prompted by finder to choose which application to open it with (Chrome is greyed out, but I choose 'All Applications' and then choose Chrome), it will then simply load a page in Chrome and display the code on the page, instead of opening the url specified in the code. running Version 50.0.2661.94 (64-bit) on OSX 10.9.5

Some applications will signal to the OS that they can open special link type, such as ssh:// or github-mac://. They get automatically opened for such links by the web browser (or when using open in a terminal). If I have multiple such applications, how can I set which one should be the default? For example, both GitHub Desktop and SourceTree can handle github-mac://. When I installed GitHub Desktop, it became the default handler for these links. How can I set SourceTree as the default handler without uninstalling GitHub Desktop?