Safari: Using Tabs

2010-03-08 08:28 AM Category Internet | Safari

There are so many features in Safari that are not turned on when it ships. These are features that make Internet surfing faster and easier. It’s difficult to understand why Apple does not enable them when it ships Safari.

Here is a list of recent posts about Safari features on MacMousecalls.

Another Safari feature that I really like and use every day is tabbed browsing. When you first use Safari, the top of the window looks like this:

New Safari

The Show Tab Bar command in the View Menu…

view_show_tab

will add a tab bar in the Safari window:

OneTab

When you are on a web page with links to other pages , hold down the Command key as you click on the links.

command_key

Tabs will appear along the tab bar and the web page will load on the tabs.

multiple_tabs

If you click on a tab you will see that web page, but your original page will not disappear. You can click the tabs to view the different web pages.

If you want to close a tab, hover your cursor over the favicon (icon) on the tab. An x will appear.

close_tab

It is possible to re-arrange the tabs by dragging then along the tab bar.

moving_tabs

To move a tab into a separate Safari window, click and drag down on the tab:

tab_to_new_window

If you try to close a Safari window that has multiple tabs, it will warn you that you are about to close multiple web pages:

close_window

While I like the way Apple has configured tabs to work, you can modify those actions in the Safari Preferences.

Safari_pref_tab

To get to this window, go to the Safari menu and choose Preferences. Be sure to select Tab in the toolbar at the top of the window.

safari_preferences

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