/r/Safari
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A few years ago I followed a procedure to add an action item in the Safari right click menu, when you select some text.
This opens a web page with the selected text as an argument (it's pretty much like the Search Google for selected text), but the website and URL string is bespoke.
Trouble is, I can't find the procedure and basically forgot how to do it. I think it may have been Javascript.
Anyone can point me to some sort of tutorial/example on how to do this?
Apple Support told me tabs within tab groups do not get closed with this setting turned on, but could not link to documentation about this.
This Gadget Hacks article says:
Auto-closing tabs work in both standard and private tabs, as well as in each tab group.
Which one is it?
Since upgrading to Sequoia, Safari is not filling OTPs received in Mail. What can I do to fix it.
Turning off the sync and turning it back on again seems to fix it the problem briefly. Anyone else having the same problem?
Finding it rather inconvenient as everything else works as intended.
Also, I am not using a VPN, nor is iCloud relay turned on.
This occurs for all downloaded items that definitely have applications that can open them: jpg, pdf, stl, and all others. This worked prior to version 18.
Yesterday I was using Safari like normal. The site I was in froze, so I hit refresh, but then it said the server could not be found. I closed and opened the safari a few times, but it didn't fix it. Upon changing my Wi-fi, it worked like normal again.
I changed back to the original Wi-fi I was using, and it was working fine for a while, before the same thing happened again. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is it just bad Wi-fi connection?
So looks like YouTube has officially killed Adblock for safari. Every extension I have tried failed, is there any other solution or am I gonna just have to switch to another browser?
Update: The issue has been resolved so I added the following 2 extensions to safari
After doing so I was still getting the pop-up message "Sorry ads are against YouTube's terms and services". vfl97wob suggested clearing cookies, and after doing so the pop-up message no longer come up!
I have tried many extensions for ad blocking, but the only one that is working for me is ghostery and all of them slow down my browser like shit. sped with ghostary is ok but for a native browser and extensions i expect more.
i did some tests on speedometer 3 with safari and arc. and they had the same speed without extensions and with extensions arc barely slowed down.
both got 27 before extensions and arc got 26 while safari got 17 with ghostary
if anyone found an adblocker that doesn't significantly slow down safari please let me know
Hi, I use Safari and have it set to private browsing. I have a couple of different Gmail accounts and usually have them open in separate private tabs in Safari. My battery drained the other day, and since recharging and rebooting, if I log into gmail on one private tab and then open a new private tab and open gmail, it automatically opens the (logged in) account) from the other tab. This is NOT how it used to behave and I have not updated the software in-between. I've checked all the settings and I don't know what's going on.
I want (and expect) in private browsing ZERO information to be remembered across tabs. The behaviour I expect is that upon opening a new private tab and navigating to gmail, I will get the login screen. I expect the new tab to NOT KNOW that I am logged into gmail on another private tab in the same browser.
So how do I get it to stop remembering data across private tabs?
And what info does it remember normally that I should be aware of?
Thanks heaps.
I'm using a Macbook Pro on Sonoma 14.4.1
Are there any adblockers in Safari with custom rules being in free version of the app?
Every time at night i'm trying to search some things on safari and can't. Please how can I solve it? Thanks for the answers
I have multiple emails on my computer and I want one email to stay logged in automatically but it keeps logging me into a random email
Exactly what it says in the title. Is there any way I’d be able to get them back?
I'm looking for an extension or an app to enable Live Captioning for videos in Safari. Do you guys know any? I want to watch a video on Safari that doesn't have subtitles, and it is not on YouTube, so I need subtitles for the video.
Hi everyone! I've been having this issue for a while with some websites and decided to ask if there's a solution.
I have Gmail open in a tab, but I don't look at it for several hours. Then after some time, I decided to check it and when I switched to the tab, it didn't load the page.
I noticed it happens with claude .ai too.
I provide materials to my clients over my website. But some of them can’t download them via the links. I saw from a screenshot that my site had this icon on it. How do I get people to remove it? I don’t seem to have this problem with my machine.
Everytime I open a PDF in Safari, it doesn't load. I get a grey screen. I have to close the tab and click on the PDF link a second time for it to work. Any way to fix this?
just a little worried, i checked and made sure i was not hacked
Safari 18.0.1 on macOS 15.0.1:
When I download a PDF file in Safari and try to open it right from the Downloads dropdown menu in Safari, I get this error message which says "Safari can't open this file as there is no program available that can open it".
It used to work normally until I cleared all my browser history, cache etc. recently. Obviously I do have Preview installed and it opens PDF files from my Finder as it should.
Any ideas?
not sure if this is unique to me on a 14pro so i thought id ask. Seems to have started sometime this week. i noticed it while halfway through a 37 minute video playing at max volume. i would use the app but i find the app has less real estate to avoid accidentally clicking on ads
If I already have a word typed out and I search it up, whenever I click back on to my the word it auto selects the word or sentence instead of allowing me to start writing the the end of the word/ sentence. It’s a little frustrating because I have to click of the word like 3 times in order for it allow me to type at the end of the word. Any way I can disable this?
Safari is almost unusably slow on all of my Macs unless I turn off "Hide IP address from trackers". Obviously I would like this feature on, but it just makes it way too slow. This setting is on on my iPhone and I have no issues with loading speed. Any ideas? I'm on Safari 17.6.
Right after installing it showed the corresponding option in the pop-up menu window. Then I gave all permissions to the extension and after that the option does not show up any more in the pop-up menu window.
Title pretty self-explanatory, after a forced phone reset I lost countless important tabs that cannot be recovered from memory and the history only traces to several days back
I have been getting a message for Instagram’s website that ‘Your browser is no longer supported..’ Is that something to worry about?
I’ve tried enabling the “Open safe files after downloading” option in Safari settings, but it still doesn’t work for PDFs. I managed to set Safari to display PDFs in the browser rather than using Preview, but they still get downloaded first, and I have to open them from the Downloads folder manually.
Is there any way to make PDFs open directly—either in the browser without downloading or after download? I’ve tried multiple tweaks, but nothing seems to get it right. Any help would be appreciated!
Just started seeing this.
Recently discord on safari showed nothing but a blank screen on my friends iPhone, and while it seems that's been fixed, now she's unable to zoom out while using the website. She's tried changing it to a desktop website and uninstalling and reinstalling the app but it still hasn't been fixed. Does anyone else have this problem and can it be fixed?
Internal company website on Windows Server IIS and website is using PHP.
Using Safari on IOS 18, the user can authentication initially to the website using their AD credentials, but when they hit submit on a form to upload a file, the authentication modal pops up again, but credentials no longer work.
This works if we use Microsoft Edge on IOS 18, or using any browser on IOS 17.
I would initially think there is some sort of permission issue on the web server, but this is not a problem on anything but Safari on IOS 18.
I have messed with a lot of settings within Safari, but no luck. The last thing I have to mess with it testing each and every Feature Flags, but not sure where to even start there.
Anyone run into anything like this yet or before?