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

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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.

              10 days later
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