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How to fix right click menu in Safari delaying one item causing me to pick wrong choice

Sort of a weird issue. I have a new Mac mini running Ventura 13.0.1.


When I am using Safari, You Tube specifically, I often right click on videos to select "open in new tab" so I can have a whole tab full of videos that I may watch.


Only recently I am often selecting the option just under this (open in new window) and I've noticed it's because the very last item in the menu (copy subject--see pic) takes like 1 second to load. By the time I go to click on my selected choice, "copy subject" appears and pushes all the items up, causing me to select the wrong thing.


I thought maybe it's because I was picking things where the bottom of the menu may be off screen so it was pushing it up so I could see it. I tried this full screen and watched it open the full menu, then like 1 second later, copy subject appears and pushes the items up.


Is there any way for me to fix this to avoid this behavior? Thank you.


One edit: I noticed, this happens only when I right click on a video preview to select open in new tab. If I click the actual title of the video, this doesn't happen. My behavior for years has been to right click video previews and this behavior is new to me. Thank you.


Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Nov 18, 2022 9:48 PM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2022 4:21 AM

yes.. PLEASE FIX THIS APPLE!!!.. it's so freaking annoying. you think you are choosing open in new tab. and just before you click, it adds that last item, and you end op choosing open in new window..


would love to find a way to either have it as a regular option, or disable it

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Dec 3, 2022 4:27 AM in response to Matthew_J5

Hi Matthew,


First of all you need to change your way to answer when people are posting their issue, you've always answered a robotic reply of every question. Go up and read carefully the issue, and check once on your machine and then after that reply in a sensible way. I know lots of issue which are still in discussion for decades and you "Community Specialist" can't answer or help.

Nov 21, 2022 1:57 PM in response to Ramblinmanva

Hi there Ramblinmanva,


Thank you for posting to Apple Support Communities.


If you restart your Mac, does the issue continue?


The next step would be to restart into safe mode. This is how you can do this: Start up your Mac in safe mode


Then, test if the issue continues. If it does, you can then restart as normal to test in a different user account: Add a user or group on Mac


If you still have an issue, contact Apple Support. Contact Apple Support


Take care.

Dec 26, 2022 4:07 AM in response to Matthew_J5

Hi,

This issue is really annoying, and for now the only option to easily open the new tab is to use command + click.

Is there any way to disable Copy Subject option from right click menu?


In essence it appears there with delay causing the whole menu bar to move up. It is hard to avoid on laptops with smaller screens when this menu almost always reach to the bottom of the screen and then it moves up when Copy Subject become available. It only appears when we right-click images. Youtube is a great example but you can also see if for example while shopping when you try to open new tab on the product picture.


Ramblinmanva explained it very well.


Thank you


Kind regards

Lukas

Jan 9, 2023 1:19 PM in response to mtk3d

I have the same exact issue and it is REALLY annoying. I do a lot of research work using Safari and this right-click issue should be solved. It appears if that this addition of the right-click menu (last item causing it to shift up) is someone's idea at Apple to add this as a cool feature; it's NOT! I believe this was kind of a patch and not a the core level of Safari's code but something added later and that's the cause of the delay.

Apple, please listen: FIX IT or just remove it. Thanks

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