clicking on URLs in Finder crashes Finder

[Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]]

Hi,

I am running MacOSX 10.12.6 and using Safari (12.0.1) as my main web browser. I always keep a Finder window open (in column view).

If I want to save a link to the current web page, I often drag the URL to my desktop. In some cases, I later drag the URL icon from the desktop to a folder in the Finder. Until recently, I could double-click on the URL, either in the Finder or on the desktop, and the appropriate web page would open. Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder -- the Finder window disappears as if the Finder crashed as soon as I single-click on the URL. The Finder window then opens again, but not the web page. This started a month or two ago and happens consistently, on four different Macs.

Is this a well-known problem? If not, has anyone else experienced it or heard of it? Does anyone know of a solution?

Since it happens on multiple Macs, it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue. I'm wondering if some recent update to Safari or MacOSX introduced this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Gregg

[Macs R We]

How bizarre. I got different, but related symptoms, running the same release.

I dragged the URL to the Desktop. When I clicked on the URL to drag it to a folder, Finder crashed, bam, right off the bat. This happened twice. The third time, it let me drag it to a folder. I opened up that folder, and had no problems launching the URL from there, with Safari either active or quit.

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi,
I am running MacOSX 10.12.6 and using Safari (12.0.1) as my main web browser. I always keep a Finder window open (in column view).
If I want to save a link to the current web page, I often drag the URL to my desktop. In some cases, I later drag the URL icon from the desktop to a folder in the Finder. Until recently, I could double-click on the URL, either in the Finder or on the desktop, and the appropriate web page would open. Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder -- the Finder window disappears as if the Finder crashed as soon as I single-click on the URL. The Finder window then opens again, but not the web page. This started a month or two ago and happens consistently, on four different Macs.
Is this a well-known problem? If not, has anyone else experienced it or heard of it? Does anyone know of a solution?
Since it happens on multiple Macs, it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue. I'm wondering if some recent update to Safari or MacOSX introduced this. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregg
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[David Schwartz]

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder

If you locate the originally created Internet Location file in ~/Desktop (the folder, not the desktop representation of that folder's contents) does it also crash?

In other words, do you see different behavior from the same file, between in the folder (Command+Shift+D) and on the desktop spatial representation of that folder?

-david

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi,
I am running MacOSX 10.12.6 and using Safari (12.0.1) as my main web browser. I always keep a Finder window open (in column view).
If I want to save a link to the current web page, I often drag the URL to my desktop. In some cases, I later drag the URL icon from the desktop to a folder in the Finder. Until recently, I could double-click on the URL, either in the Finder or on the desktop, and the appropriate web page would open. Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder -- the Finder window disappears as if the Finder crashed as soon as I single-click on the URL. The Finder window then opens again, but not the web page. This started a month or two ago and happens consistently, on four different Macs.
Is this a well-known problem? If not, has anyone else experienced it or heard of it? Does anyone know of a solution?
Since it happens on multiple Macs, it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue. I'm wondering if some recent update to Safari or MacOSX introduced this. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregg

[Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]]

Hi David,

When I double-click on the icon on the desktop, Safari opens to the correct web page. However, if I navigate to that same file in the Finder (in ~/Desktop), the Finder crashes as soon as I click once on the file (and then the Finder restarts by itself). So, yes, I see different behaviors for the same file.

Gregg

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder

If you locate the originally created Internet Location file in ~/Desktop (the folder, not the desktop representation of that folder's contents) does it also crash?

In other words, do you see different behavior from the same file, between in the folder (Command+Shift+D) and on the desktop spatial representation of that folder?

-david

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi,
I am running MacOSX 10.12.6 and using Safari (12.0.1) as my main web browser. I always keep a Finder window open (in column view).
If I want to save a link to the current web page, I often drag the URL to my desktop. In some cases, I later drag the URL icon from the desktop to a folder in the Finder. Until recently, I could double-click on the URL, either in the Finder or on the desktop, and the appropriate web page would open. Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder -- the Finder window disappears as if the Finder crashed as soon as I single-click on the URL. The Finder window then opens again, but not the web page. This started a month or two ago and happens consistently, on four different Macs.
Is this a well-known problem? If not, has anyone else experienced it or heard of it? Does anyone know of a solution?
Since it happens on multiple Macs, it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue. I'm wondering if some recent update to Safari or MacOSX introduced this. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregg

[Erik J. Barzeski]

I think that when you click on it the first time in the column view, the preview is what's crashing.

Could you try quick looking at the file on your desktop (space bar)?

I don't think the file being on the Desktop has anything to do with it.

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi David,
When I double-click on the icon on the desktop, Safari opens to the correct web page. However, if I navigate to that same file in the Finder (in ~/Desktop), the Finder crashes as soon as I click once on the file (and then the Finder restarts by itself). So, yes, I see different behaviors for the same file.
Gregg

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder

If you locate the originally created Internet Location file in ~/Desktop (the folder, not the desktop representation of that folder's contents) does it also crash?
In other words, do you see different behavior from the same file, between in the folder (Command+Shift+D) and on the desktop spatial representation of that folder?
-david

Post by Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi,
I am running MacOSX 10.12.6 and using Safari (12.0.1) as my main web browser. I always keep a Finder window open (in column view).
If I want to save a link to the current web page, I often drag the URL to my desktop. In some cases, I later drag the URL icon from the desktop to a folder in the Finder. Until recently, I could double-click on the URL, either in the Finder or on the desktop, and the appropriate web page would open. Lately, this works fine from the desktop, but not from the Finder -- the Finder window disappears as if the Finder crashed as soon as I single-click on the URL. The Finder window then opens again, but not the web page. This started a month or two ago and happens consistently, on four different Macs.
Is this a well-known problem? If not, has anyone else experienced it or heard of it? Does anyone know of a solution?
Since it happens on multiple Macs, it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue. I'm wondering if some recent update to Safari or MacOSX introduced this. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregg

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