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Tue 8 Jul, 2008 11:51 am
Sorry if this has been talked about here before - I haven't reread the thread.
I have had a recent phenomenon with my Safari browser and have managed to figure out how to stop it without restarting.
What happens is that I click on some screen linked words, such as an A2K thread on New Posts. Instead of getting the thread, I'll get a little white window giving me these choices:
Open Link in New Window
Open Link in New Tab
Download Linked File
Download Linked File As
Add Link to Bookmarks
Copy Links
Similarly, if I click on something in my toolbar, it'll give me some other set of choices and not open the link.
I think this happens when some words on the screen have an orange color over them.
The only way as I mentioned that I've been able to get out of this before has been to shut down.
I've looked in up in Safari Help, but don't know the word for this window function re links.
I did learn to get rid of it by clicking and re-clicking on a blank space. Whew.
But I still want to know what you call this, so I can find out more about it, its virtues, and what it is that I did to make it happen in the first place.
Never had that happen and I use Safari. Could it be something like this?
I copied this information from the Safari Help.
"Opening a webpage in a different window or tab
When you click a link in a webpage, Safari usually opens the page in the same window or tab that's currently open. If you prefer, you can open the page in a new window or tab.
Do one of the following:
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Hold down the Control key and click a link or bookmark. Then choose "Open Link in New Window" or "Open Link in New Tab" from the shortcut menu.
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Choose File > New Window or File > New Tab, and then type the page's address in the address field.
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Hold down the Command key and click a link or bookmark. Depending on how you've set up tabbed browsing, the webpage will open in a new tab, or in a new window.
To change how tabbed browsing works, choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Tabs."
No... not that.
It's a sudden thing, seems out of the blue. Happened several times last evening, and the clicking in blank space (near the banner area) did no damned good. Last night it seemed to be time related, would just stop happening. In that case it happened when I was researching for fantasy baseball data and ceased when I went back to a2k.
Thanks for responding. I guess I'll go to one of the online mac sites and nose around to see what those "windows" are.
If you find the answer, will you please post it ossobuco.
Sure.
I'll add that I said it wasn't a tab thing since I've never used tabs. I just have have more than one window open sometimes, and have for years...
Seems to be fixed. Whatever those windows were, they were driving me nuts. It dawned on me that it might be the mouse. I've been using my old imac roller mouse for about six months, and thought.. hmm. I cleaned the roller. The windows still happened. Started to order online a new optical mouse, since the reason I was using the old roller was that I'd broken the optical mouse. But, I had saved it, and pulled it out of the closet to try it one more time. Apparently it improved over its time in the closet - it might have been damp at the time from iced drink water condensation on my desk top. (well, who knows why it had stopped working).
So far so good.
I'm still going to try and find what those windows were about. They did happen a few times outside of safari being on, which somehow made me think of the mouse.
I know what you are talking about for what is listed below. I don't know the name of the function?
Open Link in New Window
Open Link in New Tab
Download Linked File
Download Linked File As
Add Link to Bookmarks
Copy Links
You hold the control key on the keyboard down and click on areas to get the little window to display the options. On Safari, it is under opening a new window.
You're right, that must be the same thing. In my hopefully past situation, it was doing it without the control key
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