Chrome in strange with arrow pointer and without working shortcuts

[Oleksii]

Hi Alfred Team,

 

I'm a new user and have difficulties browsing my default browser chrome after I used search via Alfred.

• MacOS: Catalina
• Chrome: Version 81.0.4044.129
• Alfred 4.0.9 [1144]

 

Step to reproduce:

- call Alfred via Alt-Space

- type any text I'd like to find + enter

- result: new tab opens with expected google search result

BUT:

1. I can't close this tab with Cmd-W, only by clicking with mouse
2. hover on any link, the pointer doesn't change to hand pointer - still arrow pointer. I need to do double-click (instead of one-click) to open target hyperlink
3. open another page in this tab doesn't resolve the issue

 

Workaround that helps to exit from this mode:

• with Cmd-Tab I switch to any other application and once again Cmd-Tab to return. After that target tab of chrome works as usual

Sample video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xf2od2cjxd3qngq/standardSearchViaAlfred.mov?dl=0

 

And this very frustrated!

 

Interesting note:

• I have PopClip application with Alfred extension. So when I select target text, and populate it to Alfred. I only need to press Enter and get result page. After this userflow, I don't have strange mode and behaviour is absolute normal. As in case of normal navigation

Sample video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fig6aekeaux5k8v/alfredWithPopClip.mov?dl=0

 

Any idea to help?

[Andrew]

@Oleksii Alfred simply passes off URLs to macOS to open, so doesn't have any control over the behaviour. This could be caused by a bug in Google Chrome, but more likely a combination of apps you have installed.

 

One thing you could try is putting Alfred in focus compatibility mode which makes Alfred's main window act more like a traditional macOS window instead of a floating panel. You can do this from Alfred's Preferences > Appearance > Options > Focusing.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Oleksii]

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Alfred's Preferences > Appearance > Options > Focusing.

 

WOW! Thank you a lot, Andrew! It works as I expect it