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I'm in the habit of right-clicking on links—inline or block level—to select "open in new tab." Sure I could cmd+click, but my hand's on my touchpad for scrolling already.

When I do so in Orion, the text I right click on is highlighted. This is annoying. I'm not trying to highlight text, and I don't want to see highlighted text. I'm opening the link in a new tab so that I can continue reading uninterrupted. The highlighted text is an interruption, and I have to click elsewhere on the page to unhighlight it.

This is unexpected behavior that should not be happening.

An active state outline around the link wouldn't be the worst thing, but really I don't expect to see anything change in the page I'm reading if I right-click on a link. My intent in that scenario is to choose "open in new tab" so that I can continue reading what I'm reading uninterrupted. Highlighting the text on right-click is an interruption.

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Sonoma (14)

    This is a really useful feature most of the time though. Makes it super quick and easy to copy links and look up text. I suggest leaving it as is but making the highlight clear once a popup menu item is clicked.

      Xyth Makes it super quick and easy to copy links

      Is that what's happening here? One doesn't generally highlight text to copy a link. The link is "behind" the text. An outline of the link—inline or block—is fine until a right-click menu option, such as "copy link" is chosen, but that's not highlighting text, which is generally done by dragging the cursor over it. We're mixing conventions here; that's confusing.

      Xyth but making the highlight clear once a popup menu item is clicked

      I can't think of another app, certainly not another browser, that highlights text when right-clicking on it. Handy for a few is breaking convention and causing friction for many others. Convention & consistency are important for adoption.

      Xyth and look up text

      Oh I see: any word I right-click on gets highlighted—it's not just linked words or phrases. 🤔 If the text is linked, then the whole link gets highlighted, which, again, is inconsistent behavior to people not thinking about what is and isn't a link. In unlinked text, I right-click, I get a word; in linked text, I right-click, I get a phrase or span of words. This is still unexpected and a source of friction. There definitely needs to be some self-clearing behaviors: when choosing an item in the right-click menu or when clicking elsewhere on the page.

      If it's a deliberate feature, it'd be great to be able to disable it in settings.

              5 days later

              Sorry but when I right-click on a block-level link and it highlights all the text and images within, it's a mess. No other browser does this.

              Vlad What are you comparing it against?

              Firefox:

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                  heymarkreeves Can you share steps to reproduce, video and compare with Safari?

                  Thanks

                      8 months later

                      Here's one that just caught my attention, that's pretty awkward:

                      https://public-interest-tech.com

                      That's an inline link, not block level. It's spanning the righthand width of the page, and it's not a clean shape on the lefthand margin.

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