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177 points keepamovin | 5 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source
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saagarjha ◴[02 Sep 25 11:34 UTC] No.45101667[source]▶
> Link Previews show a snapshot of a page before you open it, helping you decide what’s worth your time. Just long press any link to preview and reduce distractions.

On macOS there is a native affordance for this by using force click. It's kind of annoying that Firefox chose to not support this and instead made it click-and-hold only.

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1. artemisart ◴[02 Sep 25 11:42 UTC] No.45101756[source]▶
This seems to be exclusive to Safari, I can't get it to work in Chrome either (and didn't know about the feature before right now, the discoverability is terrible).
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2. saagarjha ◴[02 Sep 25 12:03 UTC] No.45101977[source]▶
It's that Safari implemented support for it. Firefox added their own version and chose to give it a different affordance
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3. frizlab ◴[02 Sep 25 12:17 UTC] No.45102118[source]▶
It’s system-wide. chrome explicitly did not support it.
4. Y_Y ◴[02 Sep 25 15:30 UTC] No.45104382[source]▶
> You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

- Inigo Montoya

This is no affordance. There's nothing the design of either browser that suggests you can obtain a link preview by those actions, you just have to be told what action to take beforehand.

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5. saagarjha ◴[03 Sep 25 08:57 UTC] No.45113626{3}[source]▶
What part of long pressing a link is discoverable to you