I just upgraded to Safari 18 on my Mac and ran into a problem. Under most circumstances at the moment, it’s not possible to drag and drop the URL icon to a folder, desktop, or document.
This is deeply annoying. It’s a function I use for work. All. The. Time.
Yes, you can drag the URL and get a link with gobbledygook as the identifier.
— example link, no page header included: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255802563?sortBy=rank
(Good luck remembering what that link is for, especially when it’s snuggled up to several dozen of its friends.)
But if you want a normal link with the page header hot linked, like, you know, every person ever, you may be out of luck.
— what I’d rather have: safari 18 lost the ability to drag URL to… – Apple Community
The drag-and-drop method works sometimes, if you only have one window open and haven’t clicked on any links, or you drag sideways while muttering imprecations incantations, or hit the command button before (but not during) the actual click, or you’ve sacrificed a venti latte double mocha with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles to the IT gods, but otherwise not so much.
If I’d known about this I would have waited to update. If I could roll back I would. Maybe you won’t have the same problem, but maybe you will. Here’s hoping you can learn from my mistake.
I look forward to a fix.
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J.R. Johnson 
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