I generally try to keep things Apple-centric on y Mac System.
However, With regards to Safari … this browser really does not handle a lot of things well.
Any number of goverment web sites do not function, or render correctly using Safari.
Google Suite apps do not funcion right. One prominent malfunction is the Ctrl-Click dropdown function. In Google Drive for instance Ctrl-Clicking an item renders a blank sliver of a bar of options. Fortunately one can access dropdown options by clicking on the 3dot widget.
I recently noticed the workforce management platform Rippling has similar issue with dropdowns not functioning, in one instance the same sliver of the empty menu appears. And in this case there is no option other than to navigate to a completely different page format to access info, or functions.
Also today, while responding to emails, while writing content, the page flips away somewhere else on the page, I have to scroll around looking for the draft area
Accoring to AI Overview, this is a known thing, but I can never tell if AI O is just saying generic stuff from my prompts, with the exception that it may refer to some Reddit conversations on the subject.
I find that most government sites work just fine with Firefox, FWIW. The answer to your issues might just be to use a different browser… Safari is my main browser but I just swap over when I need to.
In short, no, you can’t change WebKit—it’s an underlying foundational technology for much of macOS.
If you have trouble with a particular website working in Safari (which is a little surprising at this point), you’ll need to try another Web browser, either something based on the open-source Chromium underpinnings of Google Chrome or Firefox.
It should come as little surprise that Google Suite works best with Google’s own Chrome browser. (If I were a conspiracy-minded person, I might even suggest that Google deliberately hobbles GSuite in other browsers so as to push users to its own products. But I think in this case it’s simple lack of testing.)
The context menu – where GSuite overrides the usual OS/browser context menu in favor of rendering own menus using web technologies – seems to fail mostly if you use control-click to invoke the menu. The menu shows up (with a slowwww animation) in Safari if you use a two-finger-tap on a Trackpad, or a right-mouse-button click on a mouse. I can get it to show up with control-click, but I have to hold the click extra long for the menu to appear.
Most web developers probably never test their home-grown context-click menus by using control-click.
(I just really dislike that interaction pattern in the first place, but that’s another story.)
holy mackerel … never occurred to me to do a long hold … #sheesh
Thanks
Will be interesting to experiment with other sites, but there I think the issues are different in the
way Safari vs chrome based browsers handle some of the page protocols at certain sites.
