New browser pages do not open

After the Sequoia update, the PopClip Extensions that are supposed to open a new webpage - Chatgpt, Google, DeepL - anything - simply stopped working. Just nothing happens.
Copy for example works, remove intervals stuff that manipulates text works as before.
But if it has to open a browser - nada.
I’m on the lates PopClip version. Already tried removing accessibility permissions and reenabling them.

Edit - I found something else at the end of the day. All pages that were supposed to open DID open - just in another browser window on another desktop, which I saw only at the end of the day. I found a neatly tucked safari window with all my google, chatGPT and DeepL queries…
Any idea why new tabs are not open in my foreground browser - the same one I’m actually doing my queries from. It’s on the main tabs, not in a separate tabs group, when I open links from other sites, they open correctly in that Safari window

Thanks for reporting this. I couldn’t replicate the issue on my machine using the latest Sequoia beta (I haven’t installed the final release yet) and I haven’t heard any other reports of this so far.

In Safari, PopClip uses AppleScript to open new tabs, and it seems Safari is having trouble with tab placement.

First of all I would suggest to fully quit and relaunch Safari in case it has got itself into a weird state. A reboot may help too.

Failing that, one possible workaround is to disable AppleScript for new tabs so that PopClip defaults to the system’s “open URL” method. To do this, run the following command in Terminal:

defaults write com.pilotmoon.popclip DisableBrowserTabScripts -bool YES

Please note that after disabling AppleScript, you may encounter issues with private windows and tab groups.

Let me know if this works for you!

Thank you. It seems like somehow AppleScript was confused by one of my other tabbed windows ion Safari. Indeed after closing all windows and a restart (because why not), currently it seems to work.

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