How to deactivate clickable URLs in Address bar?

yojimbo274064400

The behaviour being observed usually occurs whilst the ⌘ key is pressed and pointer is positioned over address field text to create navigation link. For example, if address field contains example.com/aaaa/bbbb/cccc/dddd and ⌘ key is pressed whilst pointer is located over:

the text example.com the clickable link is:
the text aaaa the clickable link is:
the text bbbb the clickable link is:
the text dddd the clickable link is:

Is the clickable link being created without the ⌘ key being pressed?

Lucirukei

@yojimbo274064400

It is indeed.
This thing only happens sometimes though, not all the time.
Next time it happens ill try pressing (and releasing) Ctrl to see if it does anything.
Maybe Vivaldi sometimes think the Ctrl key is pressed when it isn't. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

sgunhouse

@Lucirukei In Windows that can happen in any app, if a notification or another app steals focus while a modifier key is depressed (pretty rare, but reproducible once you know the trick). What happens is the original app never sees the modifier released, and therefore thinks it is still pressed. Tapping that same key will release it. Not familiar enough with Macs to say the same cause applies, but probably similar.

ryofurue

@yojimbo274064400 said in How to deactivate clickable URLs in Address bar?:

The behaviour being observed usually occurs whilst the ⌘ key is pressed and pointer is positioned over address field text to create navigation link.

So, the question is, how does one exit that state?

I have exactly the same problem with the OP. I also confirm that pressing the ⌘ key activates the navigation-link mode.

But, I'm not able to exit the mode. Once the navigation mode is activated, none of the ⌘, Ctrl, Option (Alt) keys work.

yojimbo274064400

@ryofurue,

Releasing the pressed ⌘ key deactivates the clickable link. If this is not occurring then consider the following troubleshooting steps:

go to https://example.com/foo/bar
without selecting the address field, position pointer over text in address field. Is the pointer cursor shown (I-Beam) or (Pointing Hand)
If the latter (Pointing Hand) is active consider enabling the operating system's Accessibility Keyboard to confirm the ⌘ key is not in a pressed state

ryofurue

@yojimbo274064400 Thank you for your help!

In trying to answer your questions, I realized that a background app is intercepting, and interfering with, the ⌘ key! It wasn't Vivaldi's defect at all.

Regardless, I need to solve this problem without changing the background app because it is critically important for me to let the app intercept the ⌘ key and do its thing.

So, how can one change the shortcut for the navigation (clickable-URL) mode on Vivaldi? If it's not possible to change the shortcut, how can one disable the clickable-URL feature?

yojimbo274064400

@ryofurue,

Regrettably there is no such option and I can only suggest:

working around issue by clicking to right of URL, as highlighted below, i.e. when pointer appears as (I-Beam)
consider posting a feature request here Desktop Feature Requests | Vivaldi Forum to disable clickable URL in Address field

DoctorM

Finally, found a discussion of this. This new feature has been really annoying me since I updated Vivaldi.
It's not a useful and more often than not, I accidentally click and end up somewhere I don't want to be.

There needs to be an option to disable it completely.

sgunhouse

@DoctorM The generic term for this feature is "bread crunbs". There is a similar feature in many file browsers, and that is their term for it. If you can find that term in settings, flags or experiments there may be a way to disable or change it. Alternatively, change the shortcut in whatever app is stealing focus.

DoctorM

@sgunhouse As far as I know, only Vivaldi is stealing focus. Searching settings for bread crumbs or breadcrumbs turns up nothing.

It's a stupid feature. Want to copy a link from the address bar? Be careful when you high the ctrl key.

sgunhouse

@DoctorM One of the earlier postera said he had an app which was "zritically important" to him that activared with some key combination that included that modifier (sorry, being on Android currently and Windows otherwise I have no idea where to find a clover symbol to use on my post), which was whar wes causing the "stuck modifier" 8ssue for him.

For the record, I have had a comparable problem several years ago in Windows. In my case it was a spell-check app (before spell checkers became standard in browsers). Once I realized it was the source of my problem, I either had to "unstick" the key after eaxh use (just tap it so my other program could see it being released), change how I activated the app, or remove it. For a long time I chose that first option, but when they finally added a spelll checker to old Opera I deleted the other spell check.

I don't know which of your apps might be causing the issue, but you have the same optiins I did. Tap the CMD key so that Vivaldi sees it being released, figure out which app it is and change how you access it, or stop using it totally.

DoctorM

@sgunhouse I'm running Windows 10. No apps, or weird combination.
The Ctrl key on my keyboard turns this on and off. Switching from 7.1 to 7.2 started this happening.

sgunhouse

@DoctorM Why are you posting in a MacOS thread?

On Windows and Linux, pressing Ctrl is supposed to activate bread crumb mode. This thread was about people encountering bread crumb mode without actually holding down the appropriate key (on OSX, the CMD/"clover" key).

DoctorM

@sgunhouse Because this was the only search result I found about this feature.
If the same issue is in different OS versions of the browser, it's a bad feature, not an OS specific issue.

Pathduck

@DoctorM Sounds to me like you've got Sticky Keys activated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys
https://zapier.com/blog/turn-off-sticky-keys-windows/
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/gamer/keyboards/how-to-turn-off-sticky-keys/