I have a new Mac with the latest version of safari and certain functions randomly stop working for no apparent reason.
-the attach file button when composing gmail messages
-pasting into the caption field on instagram
-clicking the "upload photos" button when creating an ebay listing

the IG paste issue also occurred on my last Mac in chrome, so I think that is likely site-specific. but I never experienced the issues with gmail or ebay in chrome.

I never closed these? Yet about two weeks ago they all closed themselves. I had a lot of important tabs and i cant dig through the 100’s of searches . Is there a way to reopen them?

Hello everyone, I ve updated my Mac to 14.5 from 13 Ventura. Suddenly safari tabs changed. Even though setting for links is always open as tabs, it won't open as tabs. I have one more Mac that has macOS 13 and there is no problem about tabs. I research about this problem , some websites are effected with update of safari, I think most of them changed the way to solve this problem. But the website I use won't do anything for the issue. Need help for solving because it is so annoying. (macOS windows are so bad to compare win10.

Hey all, I have a quick question. Recently on my Mac mini I exported a link to Youtube as an icon in my dock as I go there a lot. However this seems to have changed the layout of the right-click menu only for YouTube. Before doing this if I right-clicked on a video icon "Open link in new tab" was the first option in the right-click menu, and I have total muscle memory for clicking the first option. Now on Youtube only the first option has become "Open link" and the second option is now "Open link in YouTube". For some reason "Open link in new tab" has now become the third option. And again only when I am on the YouTube website. If I am on any other website the first option is still "Open link in new tab" also on my MacBook it is still as it used to be.

It seems to be simply because I created a link by clicking "Add to dock" from the share menu when on the YouTube homepage. I have since removed the link icon I created and also cleared the cache of Safari but there is no change. It's a small thing but when you are used to something for years it has really been messing with me. Now I regularly just fully open a video when I intended to just open it in a new tab to watch later.

Does anyone know of a way to reset the layout of the right-click menu in Safari to default? I know there is a way to reset all of the Safari settings but the things that it seems to reset don't really seem to be associated with this issue. Also it's a little bit of a pain to do all of that if it won't fix this. Does anybody know a quick fix? I'll include images of what I'm talking about so you can see. Thanks!!

How it is now

How it used to be

Is there a way I can stop ad’s from opening links into safari to sites? It’s genuinely so annoying when I miss the X by one pixel and they open a site that’s like “click to get master haxxed loser” like genuinely how did they ever get away with this

I'm trying to move away from Google Chrome and start using Safari more... Been using macOS for a while now. But never vibed with Safari, tried it once, didn't like it, had other priorities and never made the change. A few years went by. Now I'm trying again :)

I understand every change has its challenges... Today I have a couple of questions:

Question #1

I like bookmarks. I like them organized in a certain way. They allow me to quickly access stuff. I just realized that in Safari's bookmarks bar, I can't right-click (in order to edit) a bookmark that resides inside a folder. Trying to right-click actually opens the bookmark, which is kind of mind-boggling behavior. I also noticed I can't drag a bookmark and drop it inside a folder!

Is this for real? 🙄 What's the workaround?

Question #2:

What is the best safest lightest Adblock tool for Safari in macOS ?

Is there a way to add a button the toolbar that activates Reader Mode, perhaps natively or through an extension? Can it be done in BetterTouchTool maybe?

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Anyone also have this issue?

About a week or so ago, I made a post informing folks that I've created my first Safari extension called NiceCopy.

NiceCopy allows you to copy links like you do in Arc with keyboard shortcut: ⌘ ⇧ C. It also shows a little toast when the link is copied for visual feedback—something other browsers that have this shortcut don't do (except for Arc, of course).

You can grab it from the App Store. Check out the source code and/or contribute here.

Hope you like it!

A good morning,

does anyone know a good Safari extension that allows me to add custom CSS to individual websites and sync this across my devices?

Also, JavaScript would be nice to have but is not necessary.

I would use this because of my poor visibility (colorblind) for certain websites.

Thank you all,

kind regards,

Herr Fledermaus

It shows up on literally every video I try to play.

I was trying to help someone today and asked them to browse to my company web site. They're using Safari on MacOS, which displayed the wrong web site (webmail, in this case, which is hosted on a different IP address using a different hostname).

All the DNS records are correct, with the web site and webmail site on different IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) because they're hosted by different servers.

Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Tor, etc., all display the correct web site. It's only Safari that's failing, and I have no idea why.

Is anyone else having this problem?

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I am switching to Safari, from Google Chrome on macOS. In doing so, I noticed that when listening to music/radio via Safari, I can stop it with the pause button on the keyboard. BUT, I cannot restart/unpause without manually going to the tab with the radio channel, and clicking on play.

Is it just me, or is this how Safari works? On Google Chrome, it is a simply starts/stops when I press the respective key on the keyboard, AND, that is even if the browser is not in the forefront.

Thanks...

Does anyone know if there's an extension that will turn on/off javascript and refresh the page with a click instead of having to go to the settings to do it every time I want to read an article on a paywalled site?

The new 'hide distracting items' option is good but it doesn't work as well as just turning off javascript does.

I just found it now, I thought share with you.

YoutubeAutotranslateCanceler

It’s working in Safari also and you don’t have to buy Tampermonkey, you can use the free Userscripts.

Install is easy, the method is on the github page.

Noticed for certain popular websites, as Arstechnica Airbnb etc, once their tab is closed the spinning wheel of network activity comes back on. And keeps coming on every time I reopen mobile Safari. Sometimes for a long time. Both on iOS and iPadOS. 15 to 17 alike. What are they doing? Is js allowed to operate even without the master webpage being open at all?

Does anyones else see tab groups suddenly deleting or switching tabs? I recently switched back to Safari and I want to love it but most of my tab groups sometimes lose tabs, especially my Google tab groups, which disappear all together. Anyone else seeing this?

Guys, I need some help! I often use Google to search for escort sites via Safari. Now, even though I clear cookies, browsing data, history, and everything else, my searches still show up as Google suggestions. I’ve tried everything, but they just won’t go away. If anyone has been through this and can help, I’d really appreciate it, as I might face some embarrassment in the future

I keep getting this stupid request entity too large message when I try to open my schools web page. I’m not downloading or uploading or anything just trying to access my schoolwork. I can’t log into to my account or view my email or do my schoolwork on my Mac and it is driving me insane. I am not great with computers and don’t know how to fix this so I was wondering if any of you can help me.

Thanks!

Hey everyone! I really enjoy using Safari on my Mac—it's easier for me than Chrome and I find it more intuitive. However, I’ve been having trouble with PDFs not opening when I click on links, and it’s really frustrating. Is there any way to fix this?

I don’t know what’s going on but I have several windows of multiple tabs. When I minimized to select and expand a window, the whole window will all tabs it turned into a single tab of a start page. I am on an iPad Pro. I’d appreciate help. The tabs weren’t closed (don’t appear in recently closed list).

Is it only for US, im from Philippines with Apple Intelligence enabled, but safari highlights never work on any website, it is enabled in the settings>advanced

Hey all,

I use a MacBook Pro for work with a corporate Apple Account and a personal iPhone with my private Apple Account. I'd love to sync Safari between them so bookmarks and history stay aligned, but I haven’t found a way to set this up.

I've linked my work Apple Account to my personal one through Family Sharing, which is great for shared purchases and photos, but Safari sync is still missing.

Anyone else in a similar situation? Any tips or workarounds? Thanks!

Do you know of any extension that allows you to contain your extensions in Safari like Chrome?

To be more specific I am talking how Chrome has a single button and all extensions are there in a list and you can pin those that you really need on the toolbar.

For some reason it's not working but it really private relay it keeps saying that but I had it on before and it never had a problem till now (also YouTube isn't working but idk if that's related too)