Is there a way to make links clickable in Safari?

[Braby]

It's really the only thing that I like about Firefox, and I was hoping somehow it could be inserted into Safari.

 

[rodman109110]

can you explain what you mean by "clickable"? are you having problems clicking links on websites or adding your own link to a site?

 

[nomadpass]

you mean if it says a date you would be able to click that automatically into calendar?

 

[chrisandersen]

can you explain what you mean by "clickable"? are you having problems clicking links on websites or adding your own link to a site?

last night, reading email in Mail, clicked on a link and Fusion/Xp/IE came up to open the link. Did it over and over.

 

[Braby]

Sorry for the confusion, I mean like a link on a website like GameFAQs or something, is there a way to make the link clickable so I don't have to highlight it and right click to open in a new tab.

It's like the Linkification extension on Firefox

 

[dirt farmer]

Sorry for the confusion, I mean like a link on a website like GameFAQs or something, is there a way to make the link clickable so I don't have to highlight it and right click to open in a new tab.

It's like the Linkification extension on Firefox

In your Safari preferences, under General, is anything checked on the bottom?

 

[Braby]

In your Safari preferences, under General, is anything checked on the bottom?

Open a new tab in the current window is selected

 

[ihabime]

I think I understand what you're asking, but you're using the wrong term. A link is a URL that's linked to some highlighted text and is already clickable.

I gather what you're asking about is an unlinked plaintext URL on a webpage IE:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/573974/

The only utility that I know of that does what you want is ICeCoffEE, it allows command clicking on URLs plus a few other things. It's an APE though, so consider yourself warned.

 

[cleo]

Ferget yer Safari...

I too held onto my Safari allegiance for a long time, but now that FF 3 is stable, there's zero reason not to use it. You can configure it to work like Safari, plus a whole lot more.

Regarding your specific need, I would recommend FF + the Easy DragToGo plugin. Highlight text and give it a flick (mouse gestures) and a new tab will open with a Google search of that text (or whatever your current search engine is). Do the same to an unlinked URL (like what you were asking, it'll open that. Or a regular link, for that matter. You can custom-configure the behavior every which way -- each direction of drag-n-drop "flick" can have a different action (open in new tab, open in background tab, new window, etc etc etc). Can't live without it. (And no, I'm not the author... just a rabid fan