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

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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?

                              sddawson Links opened from external (non-Orion) apps in Stage Manager will always switch from the current app to Orion's window with the Stage Manager window switching animation. Since we thought that's a little jarring and seems to defeat the purpose of the preview, we disabled the preview for non-Orion apps in Stage Manager. So that is expected behavior.

                              Links opened in a preview from within Orion should work fine in Stage Manager, though (if not, then that's a bug).