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Slack Not Opening Links: How to Quickly Fix it
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Slackis a cloud-based proprietary instant messaging platform. You can chat, send files, share images, and insert hyperlinks with other users. However, some users have reported having problems with Slack, which is not opening links sent via chat.
As such, we’ve come up with this guide that may help you fix the problem of Slack not opening links, be it in Chrome, Windows, or Android.
What can I do if Slack is not opening links?
1. Check your browser
More often than naught, Slack is not the one to blame when it fails to open links, but rather thebrowseryou are using.
As you can see from the Slack official Homepage, Slack offers support to only the most widely-usedbrowsersout there:
More so, Slack had this to say about unsupportedbrowsers:
When abrowseris no longer supported, we stop fixing pesky bugs and issues. For a customer, that could be a terrible Slack experience! We do our best to avoid that scenario by blocking unsupportedbrowsersfrom accessing Slack.
2. Clear application cache
After clearing the cache, check if Slack still has problems when opening links or whether these start working.
Before you leave, find out how tocreate and delete reminders in Slack.
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Teodor Nechita
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