New answers tagged safari
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Test if application has windows on current space
I was able to unminimize all the windows in their respective desktops with the following code
tell application "Safari"
try
set miniaturized of windows to false
end try
end ...
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Slow start-up and right click on link lag in Safari
Reset the NVRAM on your Mac
Had the same issue with extensions not showing up. After issuing the command, you mentioned, Safari became hellish slow. Resetting the NVRAM solved it.
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Safari always loads a different region for a specific website
Is this probably a problem of your country code? Are you living by any chance in Taiwan?
Living in Germany, entering http://www.godaddy.com I am redirected to https://www.godaddy.com/de-de in German ...
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Safari always loads a different region for a specific website
Generally if a website misbehaves in some way, but doesn't do that if you use Private Browsing / Incognito (and you don't use a browser extension that might affect that site), it's likely caused by a ...
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Safari keeps closing newly opened tabs, re-opening the tabs that I just closed or navigates back when using with Tab Group
This behavior seems to be caused by iCloud syncing problems. Specifically, the automatic sync process is interacting poorly with tab groups causing this pain.
Current workaround would be disabling ...
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Apple Mail and Safari quit silently when hidden
I ended up running into this problem with some of my apps and narrowed down the cause to a specific system framework, CacheDelete.framework, which is designed to delete caches in an attempt to reclaim ...
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Safari keeps reloading and moves back to previous pages
The same happens to me so I read this link
Safari keeps closing newly opened tabs, re-opening the tabs that I just closed or navigates back when using with Tab Group
My best idea is this relates to ...
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Safari randomly and periodically loses cookies
Having the same issue here
Safari on iPhone
I use JavaScript to save about 20 different cookies, all bar one are set to expire in 999 days. Cookies are never deleted but some are updated.
Every now ...
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How can I create a shortcut to toggle javascript on/off in mobile Safari on my iPhone?
on the iPhone create and use a shortcut for Safari advanced options:
open Shortcuts on iOS and select the + to create a new one;
give it a name (eg "toggle-js");
choose add action then from ...
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How to manually create a working .webloc file?
I found the simplest and most storage space efficient method:
Open TextEdit (or any other plain text editor)
Paste this single line and update the URL in the quotes to your liking.
{ URL = "...
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How to change .webloc file icon?
Change the application which opens .webloc (web location/link files)
In the Finder select the file.
Menu > File > Get Info (shortcut ⌘ I)
The file info window opens
In the section "Open ...
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Execute Swift when a Safari extension is opened
Yes, you can do that.
The how is accomplished by using for example Xcode. Start with a standard macOS Swift-based app project. Then add a Safari app extension target to the app.
Apple documents the ...
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How to sync passwords between Windows Chrome and iCloud Keychain?
It's reported here that enabling the iCloud Password extension disables the native Chrome password manager.
I'm seeing ways to import Google passwords to Keychain on Mac, but not yet how to do it ...
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Apple Mail and Safari quit silently when hidden
I am also facing this issue on a 2018 mac mini. I think this is because of low disk space as the logs indicate that the process was terminated to clean it's caches.
I think it got fixed for the OP ...
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Fake/randomize/delete geolocation in Safari for certain Websites
One way is to route through a VPN or other proxy in the location you want to "be" in.
Or, use the Tor browser (but it's not Safari). By default, it routes your traffic through three servers ...
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Can I disable pinch to show all open tabs in Safari?
I've struggled with it for a month and then ended up switching back to Chrome - it solved the issue
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CMD-Z reopens last tab instead of undoing
If you use a language other than English and the proposed solution by grg doesn't work, specify in System Preferences > Keyboard the equivalent to "Undo Close Tab" in your language.
For ...
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I cannot back-button to get to google search results
Even though the question is a few months old now, I recently had the same problem with Safari 15.5 and macOS 12.4. In addition, some websites did not load properly.
For me, it helped to close all open ...
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Running two separate instances of Safari in the same user session
Depending on your use case, you could also consider Unite from BZ Apps. It turns a browser window into a standalone app. For me, duplicate instances of Safari resulted in combined audio, which did ...
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Edit home screen bookmark link or preserve cookies
You can also do it using iOS Shortcuts.
Import the two shortcuts below
Open your original home screen bookmark that pointed to https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle
Tap the link that forwards to the ...
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How to retrieve data from an added-to-homescreen web page
I found a solution that works for transferring Wordle data using this tool: https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/wordle-stats
This works great in any browser, but I found it a little tricky when dealing with ...
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Edit home screen bookmark link or preserve cookies
Anyone else reading this who has the same problem as the OP I found a quick way to set that cookie from https://linksandpixels.com/wordle INSIDE of a Home Screen bookmark.
Since you can not change the ...
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