Paul Holbrook

Andrew - my option was set to Default, so that is of course the issue. My apologies - I completely missed those options. I looked, but didn't notice them hiding down there.

I'm using Alfred 4.5.1 on MacOS 10.15.7. Just got the 4.5.1 update this morning. When I hit the hotkey, the search box only displays on my laptop screen, and not on the screen where I have my keyboard focus and frontmost app. I've tried stopping and restarting the app. I have not tried rebooting. FWIW, Spotlight search pops up on the correct screen. Alfred Preferences also pops up on the correct screen.

Thanks, @deanishe, once I understood what you meant by "delete the app", you were entirely correct - that fixed it. The confusion was that in Alfred I was seeing that 'search' or 'google' were mapping to this weird path that looked nothing like an app. But when I went into ~/Applications/Chrome Apps, I found an "app" called 'Google Search' that was in fact the thing behind that weird path. I deleted that, and things went back to normal. Thanks for the help.

T Right. Turns out that I had Choosy as my default browser; that's an app that lets you choose which browser to use in which circumstance. I did try setting default browser to Safari away from Choosy; didn't work. Uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome; also didn't work. This certainly sounds right. However, I can't figure out where Alfred picked up the association between my keyboards and that weird app path. I see the weird path when I invoke Alfred and type the keyword, but when I go into Alfred Preferences, I can't find that weird path anyplace. I'm sure I could nuke Alfred and make it work, but I'm just not sure where that association might be.

Whenever I use the 'Search' or 'Google' keywords for Alfred - ie, type those keywords followed by return - I get a crash reporter window saying "Google search quit unexpectedly". I'm almost sure that this is because when I type those keywords, alfred previews that it's going to launch something odd looking - /Users/holbrook/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/Default coobgpohoikkiipiblmjeljniedjpjp .. and more. I've attached a screenshot of the report; I can attach the actual report if desired. I'm almost certain that weird path is my issue; on another Mac, Google maps to a much more reasonable path /Applications/Google Chrome.app. There is in fact a '/Users/holbrook/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/' directory and there appears to be a directory or app that matches the screenshot below, but I don't know why Alfred is honing in on that specific directory. When I looked in my preferences and search for 'google' or 'search', I don't see anything like the weird path above. I have tried clearing my application cache. I have only two workflows, neither of which matches those keywords. Version: 4.3.1 [1214] MacOS 11.1