Drag and drop issues in Safari on Sequoia

Cthulhu wrote:

For anyone else who happens across this, I created another user account, and I did not see the issue. Then I noticed the default setting under Safari -> Settings -> Advanced for "Show full website address" is off. Turning it on causes the problem to manifest itself. Checked a second Mac, and same issue.

Seems to work fine here, regardless of this setting.

They definitely changed something to mess with our muscle memory. Click>drag>drop doesn't work when you click on the address bar to highlight it when it moves from center of the address bar to the left and becomes highlighted. Address becomes draggable when you click and immediately drag it without letting go. Then you can put it in a bookmarks folder or desktop. I hope it goes back to how it always was and I always click on the favicon and drag the address out to any destination.

Firstly: thanks to posters, especially mmjan.

I think I've got the old functionality restored. Here's what I did:

• that "show full website address" checkbox?
  • unchecked it
• Quit safari
  • then re-launched it
• checked that box again
• Quit safari (again)
  • then re-launched it (again)

Guess what? the old functionality has returned ! (That is, I can drag from the url field just like we used to be able to.) Consistently; across several website tests. Also, website URL icons are now appearing in the URL field again (this was another symptom).

Will try this for a few days and let readers know if the problem returns.

Interpretation: a reset of a preference was needed. Still clearly a bug, IMO ... but hopefully is a thing of my past.

Regards to all readers.

(MBP 16 M3; OS 15.0.1; Safari 18.0.1)

This problem happened to me this week after upgrading Ventura and Safari (to 18.0). I solved it by going to Settings>Advanced and turning on Show full website address. It must have automatically been turned off with the upgrade. It helped as soon as I opened a new window.

This one has been driving me nuts, too.

When a new webpage launches in Safari the URL is centered in the address bar with white space on either side and no favicon. If I click anywhere in the address bar the URL immediately goes left justified and a favicon pops up. Once the favicon is there I can drag it to exactly where I want it in the bookmarks.

Hmm... "Show full website address" is checked on our Mac's that are upgraded to Sequoia.

We can highlight, then drag the URL from there to anywhere including the desktop.

What Extensions are installed on your Mac's, we have and use "No Extensions" here.

Changing the Tab Layout to "Compact" fix the problem for me!!!!

Thanx

Thank you! That worked.

P.S. the "show full website address" checkbox is in Safari -> Settings -> Advanced Tab

Hmm... I am not having that issue after upgrading to Sequoia.

Startup in Safe Mode followed by a Restart and Test.

Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

Cthulhu wrote:

I have *never* felt this forum was dismissive or was a bug reporting mechanism, and I'm sorry you've encountered that.

It's not that I've encountered it. It's more that I'm guilty of it. 😄

I don't have a way to test something that's not on our network, but watching Wireshark there is too much HTTPS traffic even just sitting idle for me to really figure this one out.

Two things. First of all, you should know that any text field will radically change its behaviour when you click inside it. A text field may have any number of operations like drag and drop, etc. But when you click in it, the old text literally gets replaced with a new text view object. While active, the new field has totally different behaviour, different active menu items, etc.

Maybe you should look more closely at your network. Most of the Sequoia problems that people are reported are related to the network - rotating WiFi addresses, firewall, and VPNs. The Safari text field is pretty special. It does an awful lot of networking behind the scenes. It will even start loading a website before you finish typing in it.

My guess is that is what is happening in your case. Your networking isn't working correctly and that field is still doing work, or waiting for a response. It isn't transitioning into a read-for-user-interaction state the way it should. When you drag it, it has to create a draggable internal object that can be saved in favourites or on the desktop as a webloc file. But since the internal networking hasn't finished yet, it hasn't built that draggable object yet. Therefore, you can't drag it.