Tampermonkey + at least one more extension can make Safari forget that an iframe-based top level navigation was triggered by a user gesture

[dimdom69]

I am on 4.20.6184 and I am still having the exact same issue as described in issue #1536

Safari: Version 16.6 (18615.3.12.11.2)
TM: 4.20.6184
OS: MacOS Ventura 13.5 (22G74)

Originally posted by @lehrian in #1536 (comment)

[isokaze04]

same issue here.

[viliam-husar]

same issue here.

Safari: Version 16.6 (18615.3.12.11.2)
TM: 4.20.6184
OS: MacOS Ventura 13.5 (22G74)

[dewey]

I have the exact same configuration as @viliam-husar and I'm also running into the issue. Took me a while to narrow down where this issue was coming from.

Happy to assist with logs or debug information in case there's anything that makes it easier to track down.

[derjanb]

Duplicate of #1840

I guess you all have 1Password installed?

[dimdom69]

Excuse me? No I do not have 1Password installed. Maybe wait a few minutes before closing the issue to get a response to your question.

[derjanb]

Google search navigates the top frame from an iframe. Not sure why this is necessary, but this triggers a Safari bug that makes the browser forget that the whole action was triggered by a user gesture.
And it looks like that it forgets about that depending on the amount of time or work that passed since the click. That's why two extensions are necessary to trigger the issue. At the moment there is nothing I can do to fix the issue.

I'll look into writing a userscript that directly navigates to the search entries instead of creating an iframe to start the tab navigation later.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsers.html#sandboxed-top-level-navigation-with-user-activation-browsing-context-flag

[derjanb]

Please try this userscript. It fixes the issue here. If you still see issues, then please open the "Web Inspector" and check whether the selector used at document.querySelectorAll matches the anchor tag (<a>) you've clicked. Thanks.

https://gist.github.com/derjanb/d4506acc43ae8692c4ceddb0e387ccca/raw/Fix%2520Google%2520Navigation.user.js

[dewey]

Thank you, this seems to fix the issue for me and I can use Tampermonkey again!

[jpmontez]

It works for most links on a results page. However, if you try and click Wikipedia links on the sidebar or YouTube videos or anything not a general search result, it clicks don't work.

[derjanb]

@jpmontez It's workgin fine here with these links too.

Can you please open the Web Inspector, click the crosshair symbol (red) and select a link (red) that is not working.
Then search the next outer <a tag (green) and check whether it has a data-ved attribute (green). How does the element look for you?

[jpmontez]

Deleted a previous comment to show a Wikipedia link on the sidebar instead. Included is the screenshot showing the a tag. I've also disabled all other extensions except for 1Password and Tampermonkey.

[jpmontez]

I just found the problem. There was a blacklist on the page that was preventing the script from loading. I removed it and now the links work. Thanks for looking into this, though!