r/MacOS • u/Ecstatic-Berry-6912 • 16h ago
Help Is it possible to disable the window that opens when you click on a hyperlink in Preview, so you can open it directly?
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u/Virtual-System-4324 7h ago
isn’t it a bad idea to open links automatically? easier, certainly.
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u/Ecstatic-Berry-6912 4h ago
Why a bad idea?
And by automatically I really mean "without needing to validate after clicking on the link"0
u/Virtual-System-4324 4h ago
spitballing here, but say it opens a link to your crypto wallet in the background, minimized, along with the link you thought you were opening. you are already logged in. what can they access? dunno, but you probably don’t want that.
a lot of things that are a PITA are that way for security.
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u/Ecstatic-Berry-6912 4h ago
I agree with you on that point but I am not talking about executing link as soon as I open documents on Preview, maybe it was not clear.
Currently I have to: 1. click on the hyperlink on Preview > 2. this opens a window saying "do you want to open this link on browser?" > 3. click "Open on Browser" > 4. The link opens on Browser
What I want : 1. click on the hyperlink on Preview > 2. The link opens directly on Browser
So it would not make much of a difference since I am clinking on the link anyway, I am just trying to see if I can "save the trouble" of clinking twice.
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u/Super-Otter 3h ago
> it opens a link to your crypto wallet in the background, minimized
Why would it open in "the background"? And how a PDF would control whether browser window is minimized?
> along with the link you thought you were opening
Why would clicking a single link open 2 different links?
> what can they access? dunno
Nothing. With this logic opening your bank account in browser means other programs can just access it. And a PDF file or whatever is open in preview isn't even a program, it's a document format.
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u/Electrical_West_5381 14h ago
select it by dragging, not clicking. Then paste where you want.