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  • Link Preview doesn't open the preview window (Sequoia Beta, 0.99.128.1.1-beta)

  • BugsDesktopDone

I spent some more time poking at this, and it looks like there are perhaps three different issues involved, all affecting preview functionality.

  1. The preview failure that included the artifact shown in the earlier screenshot appears to be due to some sort of corruption of the Orion support files. I tried removing com.kagi.kagimacOS.plist from Preferences and restarting Orion. After that I was still seeing preview failures in some cases, but the artifact was no longer present. I tried running a restore of the the relevant files in Preferences and Application Support, and the artifact returned. I then reset everything using Reset Orion..., reconfigured, and I haven't seen the artifact since. Before doing this, attempts to open a preview window from within the browser always failed.

  2. The problem with opening external links in preview mode appears to be a Stage Manager issue. Once I resolved 1, it became clear that opening external links with Stage Manager active consistently resulted in a tab being opened instead of a preview. As soon as I turned off Stage Manager, all external links began opening in preview mode as expected.

  3. After working through 1 and 2, I was still seeing occasional failures of Open Link in Preview Window. I think this one may also be related to Stage Manager. If the option is used carefully, a preview window does open as expected; however in some cases, it results in a quick flash of the preview window that then goes away. Once this happens, Open Link in Preview Window no longer works. It results in a quick flicker and nothing more. It seems that if anything interrupts the opening of the preview window (e.g. a stray tap while opening), it closes and will no longer open. Either switching Stage Manager off for a few seconds and on again or restarting the browser resolves this issue until the next time it occurs. I was able to create the failure with some consistency when Stage Manager was active and unable to do so when inactive.

    deconvolved Thank you for those helpful details. We will look into the issues relating to the application files and a disfigured preview opened from external apps relating to Stage Manager.

        17 days later

        I'm seeing the exact same issue as @astruckm on Mac OS Sequoia 15.2:

        I've turned off link previews for now. Happy to provide more debug information

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          Can reproduce this on version 0.99.131.0.2-beta.

            This issue is not "Done". It has been broken for months now. Currently reproducable for every preview link on:

            Version 0.99.131.0.2-beta (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4)
            Build date Mar 11 2025
            MacOS 15.3.2 (24D81)

              When clicking links in WhatsApp/Discord with Orion as the default browser, you just get this little bubble window and nothing else happens. If I change default browser to Safari, the link opens in a new Safari tab as expected.

              I would expect it to either open the link in a new Orion tab, or to open a mini-browser in that little bubble.

              Orion 0.99.130.2-beta, macOS Sequoia 15.3

              Sequoia (15)

                6 days later

                goran2711 What are the values of "LinkPreviewWindowInitialWidth" and "LinkPreviewWindowInitialHeight" values in your Orion preferences? That’s located at ~/Library/Preferences/com.kagi.kagimacOS.plist, and the keys are in alphabetical order. With space bar preview:

                Also, as workarounds, does typing CMD+T when that disfigured preview is showing create a new tab in the browser, and does clicking a link with Shift held down open a new tab in the browser?

                    The height is 1, so maybe that's the issue! Not sure how this happened though, I only recently installed Orion.

                    Pressing CMD+T does open the tap in the browser. Same with shift-clicking, so at least there are workarounds for now! Thank you.

                      17 days later
                      Merged 4 posts from Links in WhatsApp/Discord don't work.

                        On my iMac the preview started working again with Orion version 0.99.131.0.2-beta while on my MacBook Pro the issue persisted with the same version. So I checked ~/Library/Preferences/com.kagi.kagimacOS.plist and on my MacBook Pro "LinkPreviewWindowInitialWidth" and "LinkPreviewWindowInitialHeight" were set to 20 and 1 respectively. On my iMac those keys were not there. Then I quit Orion and removed those keys from the plist, start Orion and preview is working again!

                        Like @goran2711 I have no idea how this happened. But at least I was able to fix it now!

                        TLDR:

                        1. Quit Orion
                        2. Remove the keys "LinkPreviewWindowInitialWidth" and "LinkPreviewWindowInitialHeight" from ~/Library/Preferences/com.kagi.kagimacOS.plist
                        3. Start Orion

                          RichieB Thank you very much for posting that workaround for folks.

                          It also helps confirm that the forthcoming fix should indeed solve the issue.

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                              I can confirm that link previews don't work when using Stage Manager. Is a fix for this parrticular issue in the works?