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Does anyone know a way to get Safari to show a preview of the url when you hover over a link? I tried to switch recently since it's supposed to waste less batt

Does anyone know a way to get Safari to show a preview of the url when you hover over a link? I tried to switch recently since it's supposed to waste less battery but two things I found were a bad experience after Chrome: - no decent ad blocker? the one I saw recommended was Ad Guard but that seems to require you to have an Electron app running simultaneously (!) in order for it to block anything - in Chrome when I hover over a link I see the url in the bottom left 'status' area... I had no idea how much I like this until it wasn't there in Safari... it feels really weird to click on a link and not know where it goes to

shuckles 6y ago
You can force click on the link if you have a trackpad that supports it. There are probably ways to simulate a force click even without such a trackpad. The same also applies to iOS: links can be previewed across many apps by long pressing. KB here: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/go-to-websites-ibrw1005/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/go-to-websites-ibrw10...
- thewebcount 6y ago
  That shows the whole webpage. It looks like they just want to see the link in the lower left, which can be done, as others have said, by turning on the status bar from the View menu.
pvg 6y ago
force trackpad press on the link to see a preview Ad Guard for Safari does not require you to run the app to block ads. Just quit the app. The hover thing might be some pref but Safari shows urls on mouseover.
- anentropic 6y ago
  When I quit the app the Ad Guard shield icon went back to "paused" so I assumed it needed to be running to work
  - pvg 6y ago
    It's not the best UI but the mouseover of the icon tells you what's going on, albeit in tiny print at the bottom: https://i.imgur.com/hnRrBVr.png https://i.imgur.com/hnRrBVr.png
sosborn 6y ago
View -> Show Status Bar
- anentropic 6y ago
  Ah great, that's it! The other thing I miss with Safari I don't think there is a solution for... there's no version for Android, so I miss sharing history and passwords with the browser on my phone. My fault for not buying all Apple devices I guess
Udo_Schmitz 6y ago
- AdGuard has to run its app in the background, true, but it‘s very well behaved. - menu: View —-> ShowStatus Bar (command /)
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shuckles 6y ago

You can force click on the link if you have a trackpad that supports it. There are probably ways to simulate a force click even without such a trackpad. The same also applies to iOS: links can be previewed across many apps by long pressing. KB here: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/go-to-websites-ibrw1005/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/go-to-websites-ibrw10...

thewebcount 6y ago
That shows the whole webpage. It looks like they just want to see the link in the lower left, which can be done, as others have said, by turning on the status bar from the View menu.

pvg 6y ago

force trackpad press on the link to see a preview Ad Guard for Safari does not require you to run the app to block ads. Just quit the app. The hover thing might be some pref but Safari shows urls on mouseover.

anentropic 6y ago
When I quit the app the Ad Guard shield icon went back to "paused" so I assumed it needed to be running to work
- pvg 6y ago
  It's not the best UI but the mouseover of the icon tells you what's going on, albeit in tiny print at the bottom: https://i.imgur.com/hnRrBVr.png https://i.imgur.com/hnRrBVr.png

sosborn 6y ago

View -> Show Status Bar

anentropic 6y ago
Ah great, that's it! The other thing I miss with Safari I don't think there is a solution for... there's no version for Android, so I miss sharing history and passwords with the browser on my phone. My fault for not buying all Apple devices I guess

Udo_Schmitz 6y ago

- AdGuard has to run its app in the background, true, but it‘s very well behaved. - menu: View —-> ShowStatus Bar (command /)

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