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From the page:

"Did you know that a URL always has an access method? The address "www.apple.com", unlike "https://www.apple.com", is therefore not a URL. Safari knows this and acts strictly according to this specification.

For example, on a web page a link to another web page "www.apple.com" is inserted. Unfortunately, the author forgot to prefix the access method "https://". If you select the address now, Safari will not show any actions to open the address. The reason is that Safari only recognizes URLs that start with a correct access method (there are other access methods besides http://). This is a pity because now you have to manually open a new tab, insert the selected address there and then make the request to the server.

Unfortunately, Safari only checks the access method, but not the rest of the address. Therefore Safari incorrectly recognizes the addresses "https://www.apple" and "https://www.apple.comcom" as URLs and offers actions to open them. Besides, Safari has problems recognizing URLs that contain spaces. The correct URL "https://www.ap ple.com" is therefore also not recognized by Safari.

The URL-Detector fixes these problems. It enhances Safari with helpful features for handling URLs.

Top features:

  • URLs without an access method are recognized
  • Warning for URLs incorrectly recognized by Safari
  • URLs with spaces are recognized
  • Syntactic check of URLs"
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When you select text containing URL on a page e.g.
"Hello check my portfolio at 'https://www.hellokitty.design', you will love it"

  • you select the URL part & right click on it, it should show "Open in new tab" (Firefox), or "Go to XXX" (Edge/Chromium), etc.

Safari / Orion is the only one that doesn't do this, Chrome/Firefox & their derivatives all show open in new tab or "go to XXX" when you select a text that contains a URL.

This is what Safari / Orion looks like

This is what Firefox looks like.

  • Vlad replied to this.

    frykauf Thanks for the detailed report.

    This has been suggested before. I remember I've seen it. It would be great if users performed a search when suggesting reports and if a similar is found, upvote it.

    I know this is a lot to ask. But reality is we are a small team and can not do this kind of management. So currently we probably have two of these reports, each probably having 1 or 2 upvotes and they will get priority never.

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          7 months later

          Like the "Paste and Go" fuction, then you come across a URL that haven't been made into a clickable link.
          Being able to highlight the link (fully or partial) and left click it, and the button "Go ...." (example: Go google.com) but it doesn't have to show the full link in the left click menu, but at least the main domain name of the link.

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            Merged 4 posts from Open highlighted links in new tab.
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              9 days later

              This feature is present in the current RC (Version 0.99.123.3.3-rc (WebKit 616.1.4.5)):

              However, none of those options do anything when clicked.

              This should function as an easy way to test:
              https://orionfeedback.org

                laiz
                Fixed in Version 0.99.123.3.4-rc (WebKit 616.1.4.5).
                Everything works exactly as expected now.

                    @Vlad mark as done
                    oops, didn't see it was already "next release"

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