Hello all:
am using safari on mac for a long long time, from 2015 may be,
but these days , some very strange things are happening,
after i open a website, and when i click on a link, i can not find the webpage to interact with, or even can not find it at all,
using VO+F2 twice shows the page name, so , i know that is allready opened,
but , using VO +Arrows can not reach this page, i can find the side bar with some things like shared with me, icloud etc, i can find someting called collection, but not my page
when i hit reset once or may be more than that, i can locate the page with arrows,
so, what is going on, shoud i change anything in my view settings or what?
By Ramy, 8 July, 2025
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Any news?
Any news?
iβve seen this bug before.
if refreshing the page doesnβt work, usually closing Safari and navigating to the page again fixes the issue. That is the only way I know how to fix this issue.
This solution is wrong. I'mβ¦
This solution is wrong.
I'm away so when I get home I'll write with details from my mac directly, but basically to solve this you have to find an item usually called tab groups or sometring along those words, and then expend this. This will show again the web content.
waiting your reply
I really need to find a solution for this
Is this for all web Pages
Hi,
I am curious if you experience this problem with all Web Pages, or if it is specific to pages that load as a PDF.
I experience a similar issue with pages that load as a PDF, and find that I need to navigate past the open Tabs to the Document. Once the document is located, I can interact with it in the normal way.
SeaNoEvil
I have been through this
As far as memory serves, I have had similar issue with Safari. All what I was doing is to expand or increase the value of the vertical splitter.
all pages
No, not pdf at all,
any website sometimes this thing happened, even here on applevis
I think I get this
I think Safari has always been a bit fiddly in this regard. But recently I have had problems where I just can't really get into the page as if it's not loaded or something.
It's quite rare for me - it sounds like your experience is much worse.
I would try Cmd+L to go to address bar, then Esc twice to get back to the content.
If that doesn't work, then Cmd+L, Cmd+A, Cmd+C to copy the url, then close the tab, open a new one and Cmd+V to paste the url back in often does the trick.
Occasionally I give up and just paste the link into Chrome instead.
Sorry for the delay
So if I understand your issue correctly - I might be wrong but still - here's what you have to do. I will assume that you use the standard grouping behaviour, if not you should know how to do this anyway.
In the toolbar where we have the address bar among other things, look for the button hide/show sidebar. I think it's very likely shown already for you, if not show it. Then interact out of the toolbar and just next to it with vo right arrow you should see the sidebar. You can either use vo up and down arrow and then vo space to select, or just use the up and down arrows. This is how I would often trigger this behaviour before learning how it works.
With the up arrow, just go to the very top, going down if necessary to go to the desired tab you want.
Interact out of the sidebar, you can choose like me to hide it to prevent accidental focus loss there, I do use the icloud tab and other elements of the sidebar but when I need to I can just show the sidebar again.
Again, my understanding of your issue could be completely wrong and you could already know this trick as I only started to use the mac 2 years ago, but I hope it can still help someone out there.
Let me know how it goes!
Thanks
no delay at all.
just i will wait when it will happen i'll try your way.
Thanks so much for your time.