Drag and drop issues in Safari on Sequoia

Good afternoon,

I am having the same problem with not being able to drag a URL into my bookmarks folders. I have noticed that when "Safari is using an encrypted connection" (you will know this is happening when you see a little Lock to the left of the URL) to load the web page I can not drag the URL into any of my bookmarks folders. See screenshot for the notice - This is what you see if you click on the little Lock to the left of the URL.

I CAN drag any URLs that are not encrypted by Safari.

I don't know if this is a glitch or if there is a work around, so if anyone has any info on this issue please let us know.

Thanx

Cthulhu wrote:

as soon as the search bar loses focus, it never works again.

Under what conditions does that happen?

If you can construct a step-by-step sequence of actions to reproduce the bug, then other people can try that. Otherwise, we are left with trying to reproduce a loss of focus in the search bar using whatever method we can think of. Change tab, change window, change app, it all seems to work.

I think a lot of people are maybe running old 3rd party system modifications or something. Then, a new OS update comes out and that old app is now broken. They post a message here, collect a few "me too" replies, and think Cupertino is reading their thread and scrambling to fix it. I can assure you that nothing of the sort is happening.

If you are able to reproduce the bug in a clean environment, provide a good step-by-step sequence to reproduce it, and file a bug report with Apple then....again nothing. A major bug affecting many users might get fixed in 2-3 months. A bug where the operating system behaves in a significant way that Apple didn't expect might get fixed in 6 months. Or never. Many bugs only ever get "fixed" when Apple ports the next portion of iOS code over to the Mac the next year.

Year, after year, after year, after year, it's always the same. So if people on this forum seem dismissive, it's merely from repetition. If you can find a bug - great! We would love to see it and confirm it so we can help people with workarounds in the future. But the bug simply ain't ever gonna get fixed. That's the brutal truth.

Using macOS 15.0 Sequoia and Safari Version 18.0 (20619.1.26.31.6)

The Only Safari Extension is "Ad and Stuff Blocker "

Safari >> Settings >> Advanced >> with " Show Full website address " enabled

I can Drag the url from the Search Bar in Safari into a TextEdit file and works

Can do the same and Drag the url to the Desktop of the computer

It does create a Weblock file on the Desktop

I have the same issue. It is really frustrating. On 2 Macs same problem. Tried Clean Safari without extensions, tried Full Address.. only thing that worked is copy address to new Safari window and before clicking Return -> drag n Drop.

It is the most used function for me.. really hope there will be a solution soon

Is it just me or this now fixed with OS 18.1 and Safari 18.1? Seems to be fixed. So far so good.

Interesting 1 M1, 1 M2 and 1 M3 all with macOS 15.0 Sequoia

It does work across all 3 machines

I tried Compact, but did not fix the issue.

Also reboot in Safe Mode did not work.

Chrome still does work, it's only Safari on both Macs.

Hopefully there's other tips I can try?

Thanks for the update. Also tried with 18.0 but with or without full address, the same problem :(

Who knows... 18.1 might give the solution :)

UPDATE: just got an sequoia update and it after rebooting Safari it again!!

UPDATE 2... just after posting my reply, it stopped working again :(

Hello, I have the same problem. The update didn’t help either :-(

Sorry to disappoint : what I typed earlier today ? It hasn't lasted. Problem has returned.

I'm making excellent use of mmjan's workaround.

Awaiting a fix !

VERY Frustrating! This and other SNAFU's with Safari is bolstering my decision to switch to Firefox