Host not reachable when using Mac OS browser

Installation
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I am running HA on HAOS 15.2 with Core 2025.6.1 on a RaspPI with HA OS installation.

The setup works fine on a local IP with my mobile devices running the HA app and using the url homeassistant.local:8123.

But when I try to send a web browser on MacOS 15.5 to this url it says

This site can’t be reached
http://homeassistant.local:8123/ is unreachable.

The same happens if I substitute the ip address as http:10.0.0.22:8123.

On the command line I can ping that IP address with no trouble. The routing table says there is a valid route to the interface on the RaspPI.

If I try telnet 10.0.0.22 8123 I get

telnet: connect to address 10.0.0.44: No route to host
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

So I assume this is something on the RaspPI.

When I look at Settings->System on the HA app on my iPad, it shows ‘Network External Access Disabled’. Clicking on that tab shows under Local network that Automatic is disabled and the link is http://10.0.0.22:8123 .

Any suggestions on how to enable the web frontend access from other browsers?

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I think this is something that started in the latest Chrome version - my Chrome browser can’t access it but Safari can…

I think I will dive into the Chrome settings as I assume the issue is there.

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@zoogara @PeterNSteinmetz there’s a fix posted here if it’s the same issue.

If it works, all credit goes to the original poster.