MacOS – Safari alternative to gleebox for mouseless navigation

Depending on what you are trying to do with the link, it may be sufficient to drag it. If you click and drag a link in Safari, you can drop it in many places and get the desired functionality. For example, if you drop it in a text editor, it will drop the link URL (for plain text) or a formatted link using the title from the page. If you drop it on your desktop, you will get a webloc file. If you drop it on the Safari URL bar or tab, that tab will load the link.

If you really need to copy the link, one possibility is to use spotlight as a easy-access text field. Start dragging the link, hit Command+space (or whatever you have it set to) to pop up spotlight, drop it in the search field, and copy.

I too have this issue. If you stop scrolling for 5 seconds because your reading, then go to start scrolling again, there is a freeze or delay of about 1 second. its noticeable, and very annoying. There are no viruses, and its not a plugin. (I don't use chrome extensions or plugins.) Safari doesn't have the issue, and its machine specific. The identical Chrome on an older iMac, identical OS, doesn't have the issue.

My guess is that chrome has "frozen" the page, to save on CPU cycles, and has to release that and start live rendering it again when it sees you start scrolling. Or maybe its a delay of swapping between graphics mode on the hardware...?

Some interesting extra notes...if a text editor panel is open, such as the one you comment on here, the issue does not exist. If an active video such as on youtube is playing in the window, then there is no lag scrolling either.

If you are scrolling up, there is never a delay, its only scrolling down that has the delay.

You see the mouse pointer change for the items that would be scrolling under it before you see the page even move. So this indicates its some lower level thing that is going on, and most likely graphics related.