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> Link Previews show a snapshot of a page before you open it, helping you decide what’s worth your time. Just long press any link to preview and reduce distract

> Link Previews show a snapshot of a page before you open it, helping you decide what’s worth your time. Just long press any link to preview and reduce distractions. On macOS there is a native affordance for this by using force click. It's kind of annoying that Firefox chose to not support this and instead made it click-and-hold only.

artemisart 1y ago
This seems to be exclusive to Safari, I can't get it to work in Chrome either (and didn't know about the feature before right now, the discoverability is terrible).
- saagarjha 1y ago
  It's that Safari implemented support for it. Firefox added their own version and chose to give it a different affordance
  - Y_Y 1y ago
    > You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya This is no affordance. There's nothing the design of either browser that suggests you can obtain a link preview by those actions, you just have to be told what action to take beforehand.
    - saagarjha 1y ago
      What part of long pressing a link is discoverable to you
- frizlab 1y ago
  It’s system-wide. chrome explicitly did not support it.
drcongo 1y ago
It's a three finger touch for me.
tgv 1y ago
But wouldn't that render the preview with Safari?
- cosmic_cheese 1y ago
  No, this would be a custom implementation and they could trigger a Gecko-based preview.
clumsysmurf 1y ago
They still haven't gotten correct fullscreen behavior on macOS and thats ~15 years ago.
codazoda 1y ago
TIL. I agree with the other comments that say it's not discoverable. I've been using MacOS for 10 years and I didn't even know that "Force Click" is a thing. This comment caused me to look it up and then try it. I disagree that it's "everywhere". I just tried it in Spotlight Search (Command + Space). I can never remember how to see where a thing is located there and I hoped a force click might show me. Hint: pressing command will do it but it takes 250ms to 500ms to show up and somehow I never wait that long. Not only does Spotlight Search not show me where it is, force clicking doesn't show me a preview, or seem to do anything else. In Finder force click edits the name of the item you're clicking. So, this doesn't seem to be terribly universal. I suppose I'll slowly figure out how this works now that I'm aware of it.
bapak 1y ago
Pretty typical of browsers and especially of Firefox. Took them 7 years to use native scrollbars post Lion, it looked like cross-platform junk for the longest time. Back when Chrome was still trying to gain traction, they came out supporting native Keychain Access for password management. Firefox, which had a 4 year head start, never implemented it.
- zveyaeyv3sfye 1y ago
  Must be tough for those managers running macOS.

artemisart 1y ago

This seems to be exclusive to Safari, I can't get it to work in Chrome either (and didn't know about the feature before right now, the discoverability is terrible).

saagarjha 1y ago
It's that Safari implemented support for it. Firefox added their own version and chose to give it a different affordance
- Y_Y 1y ago
  > You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya This is no affordance. There's nothing the design of either browser that suggests you can obtain a link preview by those actions, you just have to be told what action to take beforehand.
  - saagarjha 1y ago
    What part of long pressing a link is discoverable to you
frizlab 1y ago
It’s system-wide. chrome explicitly did not support it.

drcongo 1y ago

It's a three finger touch for me.

tgv 1y ago

But wouldn't that render the preview with Safari?

cosmic_cheese 1y ago
No, this would be a custom implementation and they could trigger a Gecko-based preview.

clumsysmurf 1y ago

They still haven't gotten correct fullscreen behavior on macOS and thats ~15 years ago.

codazoda 1y ago

TIL. I agree with the other comments that say it's not discoverable. I've been using MacOS for 10 years and I didn't even know that "Force Click" is a thing. This comment caused me to look it up and then try it. I disagree that it's "everywhere". I just tried it in Spotlight Search (Command + Space). I can never remember how to see where a thing is located there and I hoped a force click might show me. Hint: pressing command will do it but it takes 250ms to 500ms to show up and somehow I never wait that long. Not only does Spotlight Search not show me where it is, force clicking doesn't show me a preview, or seem to do anything else. In Finder force click edits the name of the item you're clicking. So, this doesn't seem to be terribly universal. I suppose I'll slowly figure out how this works now that I'm aware of it.

bapak 1y ago

Pretty typical of browsers and especially of Firefox. Took them 7 years to use native scrollbars post Lion, it looked like cross-platform junk for the longest time. Back when Chrome was still trying to gain traction, they came out supporting native Keychain Access for password management. Firefox, which had a 4 year head start, never implemented it.

zveyaeyv3sfye 1y ago
Must be tough for those managers running macOS.