Internet link file icons have no image (they appear as a blank page)

Hello paulio,

Thanks for choosing the Apple Support Communities. If we understand correctly, you are unable to save web pages to your desktop. We can understand why you'd reach out for a solution.

Here is a resource that can help.

Save part or all of a webpage in Safari on Mac

Cheers!

In the Get Info window for the internet file, the "Open with" and "Change All..." section is greyed out and cannot be edited. So I'm unable to change to a different browser other than Safari.

Did you unlock the Lock?

pualio wrote:

My issue: The internet link file icons have no image (they appear as a blank page).

FWIW, saving icons with webloc files has been deprecated. I don't remember if that happened with Catalina or earlier.

The latest Security Patch and Safari was released yesterday… and they didn’t fix the problem. Honestly, I can’t imagine an Engineer taking any more that 20 minutes to fix this and recompile it. So, I guess we’ll never see the Safari weblocs again?

Oops... my bad. I don't save .weblocs in Firefox so, I was woRng.

A nice fella over at macrumors said:

"I keep all weblocs in the same folder automatically, using an app that as soon as I drag one on the desktop it transfers it to the specific folder for webloc. Than it’s easy to select them all and command +option-I , paste the icon and voila.

Or you can search for webloc by kind on your Mac,

select them all with command +option-I

and paste your icon of choice."

I got an email this morning from the Apple Tech I chatted with Last Month about this same problem. He said:

The issue is still under investigation, their email said anyone who submitted a request about the issue will receive a mass email when the investigation is complete and they have a resolution, so I will get one once they have fixed the issue.

"Mass" meaning it's widespread, right?

To which I answered:

Thanx a bunch, Steve! I’m just surprised that they didn’t fix it with the last Security and Safari Build. It’s just a matter of recompiling the icns Folder… If I knew what I was doing, that shouldn't take more than Ten Minutes, right?

One more thing. I notice that it takes my Mac Pro 2010 about 5-10 minutes to shutdown, since that last Build. If you could tell them that too. Obviously my old OS is not even on their Radar.

Al-Gordon wrote:

So, I guess we’ll never see the Safari weblocs again?

I have no idea. FWIW, Firefox does the same. If it bothers you send Apple feedback.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

New Security Updates and still no Safari Fix...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

It bothers me... and I've reported it 3 times since November. Firefox doesn't do the same. TI'm talking about the missing weblocs since the last Two Upgrades.

Firefox 84 does the same thing for me.

Al-Gordon wrote:

Oops... my bad. I don't save .weblocs in Firefox so, I was woRng.

Told ya. 😎

Personally, with Bookmarks and Favorites, etc. in browsers, I never use them.