Apple Fixes Broken Twitter Links in Safari in Third Beta of OS X 10.11.4Apple has fixed an issue that prevented shortened "t.co" links on Twitter from loading in Safari on the
third beta version of OS X 10.11.4, seeded to developers for testing on Monday, according to developer Dieter Komendera. The bug affected many users in the
MacRumors and
Apple Support Communities forums.
<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Apple just sent back my radar about
https://t.co/JewBctgsV7 urls not working in Safari, saying it’s fixed in latest 10.11.4 beta.
#finally</p>— Dieter Komendera (@kommen)
February 10, 2016<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center>Since November, Twitter users who click shortened "t.co" links with the secured HTTPS protocol have encountered a bug that prevents content from loading. Oftentimes, when a "t.co" link is clicked, it opens up a blank web page and hangs at a loading screen for several minutes before giving an error message.
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Safari users have used temporary solutions, including reloading the "t.co" link several times, removing "https" from the URL, clearing Safari's cache, or switching to a different browser, but until now there was no official fix yet for the link loading issue. Chrome and Firefox are not affected, nor are links that do not use HTTPS.
Last month, WebKit Developer Experience Manager Timothy Hatcher tweeted that the problem was lower level than WebKit, Safari's underlying rendering engine, and that
Apple had a fix identified. OS X 10.11.4 should be released to the public by no later than the end of March, depending on how many beta versions are tested.
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