Safari Shortcuts
General shortcuts:
up/down arrow key
Scroll page vertically by a small amount (more than click on scroll bar arrow)
left/right arrow key
Scroll page horizontally by a small amount (more than click on scroll bar arrow)
option-arrow keys
Scroll page by a screenful, minus a small overlap
Command-up/down arrow key
Scroll to top-left or bottom-left corner of web page
spacebar
Scroll page down by a screenful, minus a small overlap
Delete key
Go Back
Shift-Delete key
Go Forward
Other browser window shortcuts:
Page Up key/Page Down key
Scroll page by a screenful, minus a small overlap
Home key
Scroll to top-left corner of web page
Command-Home key
Go to the Home page
End key
Scroll to bottom-left corner of web page
Esc key
If location field selected, restore viewed URL
Cmd-click a link
Open link in new window or tab
Cmd-Shift-click a link
Open link in new window or tab
Option-click a link
Download file
Shift-click the Add Bookmark button
Add bookmark directly to menu
Cmd-return in address field
Open page in new window or tab
Cmd-Shift-return in address field
Open page in new window or tab
Cmd-return in search field
Show search results in new window or tab
Cmd-Shift-return in search field
Show search results in new window or tab
Press and hold Back or Forward button
Pop up a menu showing up to 10 back/forward entries by page title
Option-press and hold Back or Forward button
Pop up a menu showing up to 10 back/forward entries by page URL
Cmd-Shift-right-arrow
Select Next Tab
Cmd-Shift-left-arrow
Select Previous Tab
Bookmarks view shortcuts:
Delete key
Delete selected bookmarks
Return key
Start or finish editing name of selected bookmark
Tab key
When editing, move to next editable cell
spacebar
Open selected bookmark
Double-click
Open selected bookmark
Cmd-Double-click
Open selected bookmark in a new window
Option-click New Folder button
Put selected items in new folder
Activity window shortcuts:
Double-click
Open item in browser window
Option-double-click
Download item
Downloads window shortcuts:
Option-click status field
Toggle between time remaining and download rate
Double-click file icon
Open the downloaded file
Menu shortcuts:
Cmd-A
Select All
Cmd-C
Copy
Cmd-D
Add Bookmark...
Cmd-E
Use Selection for Find
Cmd-F
Find...
Cmd-G
Find Again
Cmd-H
Hide Safari
Cmd-J
Jump to Selection
Cmd-K
Block Pop-up Windows
Cmd-L
Open Location...
Cmd-M
Minimize
Cmd-N
New Window
Cmd-O
Open File...
Cmd-P
Print...
Cmd-Q
Quit Safari
Cmd-R
Reload Page
Cmd-S
Save As...
Cmd-T
New Tab
Cmd-V
Paste
Cmd-W
Close Window or Close Tab
Cmd-X
Cut
Cmd-Z
Undo
Cmd-Shift-A
AutoFill Form
Cmd-Shift-B
Show/Hide Bookmarks Bar
Cmd-Shift-D
Add Bookmark to Menu
Cmd-Shift-G
Find Previous
Cmd-Shift-H
Home
Cmd-Shift-N
Add Bookmark Folder
Cmd-Shift-P
Page Setup...
Cmd-Option-A
Activity
Cmd-Option-B
Show All Bookmarks
Cmd-Option-D
Show/Hide Dock (System-wide)
Cmd-Option-E
Empty Cache...
Cmd-Option-F
Google Search...
Cmd-Option-H
Hide Others
Cmd-Option-K
Mark Page for SnapBack
Cmd-Option-L
Downloads
Cmd-Option-M
Minimize All
Cmd-Option-P
SnapBack to Page
Cmd-Option-S
SnapBack to Search
Cmd-Option-U
View Source
Cmd-Option-W
Close All Windows
Cmd-Option-Shift-W
Close All Windows
Cmd-1 to Cmd-9
first 9 bookmarks (not folders) in Bookmarks Toolbar
Cmd-?
Safari Help
Cmd-[
Back
Cmd-]
Forward
Cmd-.
Stop
Cmd-,
Preferences...
Cmd-/
Show/Hide Status Bar
Cmd-|
Show/Hide Address Bar
Cmd-\
Show Page Load Test Window
Cmd-}
Select Next Tab
Cmd-{
Select Previous Tab
Safari Shortcuts
General shortcuts:
up/down arrow key
Scroll page vertically by a small amount (more than click on scroll bar arrow)
left/right arrow key
Scroll page horizontally by a small amount (more than click on scroll bar arrow)
option-arrow keys
Scroll page by a screenful, minus a small overlap
Command-up/down arrow key
Scroll to top-left or bottom-left corner of web page
spacebar
Scroll page down by a screenful, minus a small overlap
Delete key
Go Back
Shift-Delete key
Go Forward
Other browser window shortcuts:
Page Up key/Page Down key
Scroll page by a screenful, minus a small overlap
Home key
Scroll to top-left corner of web page
Command-Home key
Go to the Home page
End key
Scroll to bottom-left corner of web page
Esc key
If location field selected, restore viewed URL
Cmd-click a link
Open link in new window or tab
Cmd-Shift-click a link
Open link in new window or tab
Option-click a link
Download file
Shift-click the Add Bookmark button
Add bookmark directly to menu
Cmd-return in address field
Open page in new window or tab
Cmd-Shift-return in address field
Open page in new window or tab
Cmd-return in search field
Show search results in new window or tab
Cmd-Shift-return in search field
Show search results in new window or tab
Press and hold Back or Forward button
Pop up a menu showing up to 10 back/forward entries by page title
Option-press and hold Back or Forward button
Pop up a menu showing up to 10 back/forward entries by page URL
Cmd-Shift-right-arrow
Select Next Tab
Cmd-Shift-left-arrow
Select Previous Tab
Bookmarks view shortcuts:
Delete key
Delete selected bookmarks
Return key
Start or finish editing name of selected bookmark
Tab key
When editing, move to next editable cell
spacebar
Open selected bookmark
Double-click
Open selected bookmark
Cmd-Double-click
Open selected bookmark in a new window
Option-click New Folder button
Put selected items in new folder
Activity window shortcuts:
Double-click
Open item in browser window
Option-double-click
Download item
Downloads window shortcuts:
Option-click status field
Toggle between time remaining and download rate
Double-click file icon
Open the downloaded file
Menu shortcuts:
Cmd-A
Select All
Cmd-C
Copy
Cmd-D
Add Bookmark...
Cmd-E
Use Selection for Find
Cmd-F
Find...
Cmd-G
Find Again
Cmd-H
Hide Safari
Cmd-J
Jump to Selection
Cmd-K
Block Pop-up Windows
Cmd-L
Open Location...
Cmd-M
Minimize
Cmd-N
New Window
Cmd-O
Open File...
Cmd-P
Print...
Cmd-Q
Quit Safari
Cmd-R
Reload Page
Cmd-S
Save As...
Cmd-T
New Tab
Cmd-V
Paste
Cmd-W
Close Window or Close Tab
Cmd-X
Cut
Cmd-Z
Undo
Cmd-Shift-A
AutoFill Form
Cmd-Shift-B
Show/Hide Bookmarks Bar
Cmd-Shift-D
Add Bookmark to Menu
Cmd-Shift-G
Find Previous
Cmd-Shift-H
Home
Cmd-Shift-N
Add Bookmark Folder
Cmd-Shift-P
Page Setup...
Cmd-Option-A
Activity
Cmd-Option-B
Show All Bookmarks
Cmd-Option-D
Show/Hide Dock (System-wide)
Cmd-Option-E
Empty Cache...
Cmd-Option-F
Google Search...
Cmd-Option-H
Hide Others
Cmd-Option-K
Mark Page for SnapBack
Cmd-Option-L
Downloads
Cmd-Option-M
Minimize All
Cmd-Option-P
SnapBack to Page
Cmd-Option-S
SnapBack to Search
Cmd-Option-U
View Source
Cmd-Option-W
Close All Windows
Cmd-Option-Shift-W
Close All Windows
Cmd-1 to Cmd-9
first 9 bookmarks (not folders) in Bookmarks Toolbar
Cmd-?
Safari Help
Cmd-[
Back
Cmd-]
Forward
Cmd-.
Stop
Cmd-,
Preferences...
Cmd-/
Show/Hide Status Bar
Cmd-|
Show/Hide Address Bar
Cmd-\
Show Page Load Test Window
Cmd-}
Select Next Tab
Cmd-{
Select Previous Tab
Using RSS Feeds
Many websites offer RSS feeds. Using RSS feeds, you can scan articles from several websites in one window, be notified when a website has new articles, and use a bookmark to search specific websites for specific terms.
An RSS feed provides the titles and summaries for many articles on a website.
Safari displays this information in a simple list.
You can search the list for articles on a specific subject, choose the length of their summaries, and sort them by date or title.
To find an RSS feed for a website:
- If Safari can find the RSS feed for the site you're viewing, an RSS button appears in the address bar. Click it to view that feed. To return to the website, click the button again.
- Choose Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks, and click All RSS Feeds. Safari lists all RSS feeds from your Bookmarks menu, Bookmarks bar, and Bookmarks library. You may find the one you want here. If an RSS feed appears in more than one location, it's listed multiple times. The Parent column displays the folder that the RSS feed is in.
- Search the website for links to its RSS feeds, and click one. (RSS feeds are sometimes called XML feeds.)
Many websites have more than one RSS feed. For example, a newspaper's website may have separate feeds for news, sports, and entertainment articles.
The RSS button in the address bar displays just one of those feeds. To find the others, search the website for links to them.
Displaying an RSS feed's articles as a screen saver:
If you have bookmarked the RSS feed for a website, you can display the headlines for that website's articles as a screen saver.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Desktop & Screen Saver, and then click Screen Saver.
- In the Screen Savers list, click RSS Visualizer.
- To select the RSS feed to display, click Options.
For more information on setting up a screen saver:
Go to the Finder, choose Help > Mac Help, and search for "screen saver".
Transfer Safari RSS Feeds to NetNewsWire:
NetNewsWire is simply the best solution for reading RSS feeds on the Mac for anyone who needs something more powerful than Safari’s RSS or Google Reader.
If you currently read your feeds in Safari, and want an easier and better way to read them, you’ll want to transfer your current feeds to NetNewsWire.
Doing this is actually quite simple.
1. First of all, launch Safari.
2. Then, click on the bookmark icon on the far left of the bookmark bar.
3. In the Collections bar on the left, select “All RSS Feeds”.
4. Highlight the first feed you want in NetNewsWire, and drag it over to the NetNewsWire icon in the dock. NetNewsWire will ask where to put the feed in your folder hierarchy.
5. Choose, then go back to Safari and repeat this for all your feeds.
Using RSS Feeds
Many websites offer RSS feeds. Using RSS feeds, you can scan articles from several websites in one window, be notified when a website has new articles, and use a bookmark to search specific websites for specific terms.
An RSS feed provides the titles and summaries for many articles on a website.
Safari displays this information in a simple list.
You can search the list for articles on a specific subject, choose the length of their summaries, and sort them by date or title.
To find an RSS feed for a website:
- If Safari can find the RSS feed for the site you're viewing, an RSS button appears in the address bar. Click it to view that feed. To return to the website, click the button again.
- Choose Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks, and click All RSS Feeds. Safari lists all RSS feeds from your Bookmarks menu, Bookmarks bar, and Bookmarks library. You may find the one you want here. If an RSS feed appears in more than one location, it's listed multiple times. The Parent column displays the folder that the RSS feed is in.
- Search the website for links to its RSS feeds, and click one. (RSS feeds are sometimes called XML feeds.)
Many websites have more than one RSS feed. For example, a newspaper's website may have separate feeds for news, sports, and entertainment articles.
The RSS button in the address bar displays just one of those feeds. To find the others, search the website for links to them.
Displaying an RSS feed's articles as a screen saver:
If you have bookmarked the RSS feed for a website, you can display the headlines for that website's articles as a screen saver.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Desktop & Screen Saver, and then click Screen Saver.
- In the Screen Savers list, click RSS Visualizer.
- To select the RSS feed to display, click Options.
For more information on setting up a screen saver:
Go to the Finder, choose Help > Mac Help, and search for "screen saver".
Transfer Safari RSS Feeds to NetNewsWire:
NetNewsWire is simply the best solution for reading RSS feeds on the Mac for anyone who needs something more powerful than Safari’s RSS or Google Reader.
If you currently read your feeds in Safari, and want an easier and better way to read them, you’ll want to transfer your current feeds to NetNewsWire.
Doing this is actually quite simple.
1. First of all, launch Safari.
2. Then, click on the bookmark icon on the far left of the bookmark bar.
3. In the Collections bar on the left, select “All RSS Feeds”.
4. Highlight the first feed you want in NetNewsWire, and drag it over to the NetNewsWire icon in the dock. NetNewsWire will ask where to put the feed in your folder hierarchy.
5. Choose, then go back to Safari and repeat this for all your feeds.
More Safari Tips ?
Having issues with docx attachments in Gmail on Safari (pre-Leopard)?
The solution is actually easy:
You are accessing gmail on a Mac using Safari (2.x or 3.x BETA - 3.x on Leopard is fine), someone sends you a new Microsoft Office .docx format file, you download it, and it shows up as a .zip file.
Or worse, that zip file automatically decompresses to a folder - Ugh.
The solution is actually easy, but it's an annoyance since Firefox on Mac will download the file correctly - so it appears to be a problem specific to Safari in these pre-Leopard versions:
Google Groups : "The new default file format is zipped xml, which can get interpreted as a zip file by some software.
If this is the case, rename the file extension to .docx and then download the word2007 converter for the version of office you are currently using..."
NOTE: If you have Safari setup to automatically decompress files, you'll have the added hassle of finding that docx.zip file on your desktop as a folder. In this case, delete the folder and then retrieve the .zip version from your Trash and modify the extension on that.
Also, if you don't have Word for Mac, or the converter mentioned above, it's worth noting that NeoOffice for Mac supports the .docx file format - and it's free.
Use Save As in Safari 1.3's contextual menus:
Apple has changed some of the default contextual menu behaviors in Safari 1.3.
Previously, the default in contextual menus was "Download linked file as..." and "Save images as...". These have changed to automatically download or save to your downloads folder (configurable in the Preferences).
To get prompted for a location for the downloads and saves,
press the Option key when the contextual menu is visible.
NOTE: This is improved in Safari 3 - it's now an option in the contextual menu by default with no modifier key needed.
Smarter Saving Files in Folders in Safari:
Whenever you choose “Save File As…”(or Link As… and so forth) in Safari it opens the typical window that allows you to choose whatever folder to want to save the file by mouse.
However often I want to save an Emacs or Vim configuration or script to their respected hidden folders (~/.emacs.d or ~/.vim) and you can’t choose a hidden folder by default.
The inefficient way is to just download the file to some visible folder and then either move the file in the finder or use the mv command in the terminal.
The efficient and smart way is to go to the “Save File As…” window in Safari and do Command-Shift-G.
The window below will come up:
Now you put in the folder that you want, for example I would put in ~/.emacs.d and it would come up and I can choose so save my file in the hidden folder.
Inquisitor: Amazing Spotlight-like Search Add-on for Safari:
Inquisitor offers spotlight-like results for searches as you type. It is the killer app that got me using Safari again.
Not only does it display search results as you type, it can also guess what your searching for. It even offers other suggestions for your search. After a single day of using this I was hooked.
Add the fact it’s one of the most beautiful applications on OS X and you’ve got a killer app.
Inquisitor does such an amazing job of integrating with Safari, it’s easy to forget you’re using an add-on.
Inquisitor also offers other useful features, like tracking searches and sites you’ve previously visited.
Did I mention Inquisitor is free?
It pays for itself through affiliate links, which are disclosed now after a little controversy.
If this bothers you, there’s the option for disabling this in preferences.
If you’ve never played with Inquisitor, I highly suggest you give it a try. Pretty soon you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
The developer of Inquisitor, David Watanabe, also develops other high quality Mac apps such as Acquisition, Xtorrent and the recently free Newsfire.
Download Inquisitor 3
Close All Tabs Except One in Safari:
A nice keyboard shortcut in Safari allows you to close all tabs in a window except for one.
To do this, simply hold down option and click on the little “x” at the left end of the tab that you want to remain open.
All the other tabs will close.
Open Safari Tabs with 1-Click:
This is an extremely simple command that has changed my life, I’ve bee using it for years.
Just hold
and then click on the link you want opened in a new tab.
Spell Check in Safari:
OS integration is one of the greatest things about OS X.
One of the things this allows is using the cross-application spell checker in Safari.
To activate spell check in Safari, press Command-: (colon) while in a text box, or select “Edit,” “Spelling and Grammar,” and finally “Show Spelling and Grammar.”
Create a Makeshift Saved Session in Safari:
An annoying thing about Safari is that it does not have a feature that enables you to save your session for the next time you launch the application.
However, there is a makeshift way to do it.
Make sure multiple tabs are open, and neither is empty.
Control-Click on the tabs bar, and select “Add Bookmark For These [#] Tabs….”
This will let you add a bookmark, which by default is called “Saved Tabs” and is placed in the bookmarks bar, containing the open tabs.
Now, you can press it the next time you launch Safari and it will bring up all the tabs you were working with.
Show Status Bar in Safari:
Safari can show a useful status bar at the bottom of each window that displays URLs when you mouse over links, as well as information about pages loading and other similar things.
To activate the status bar, simply enter Command-/ (Forward Slash) or select “View” from the menu bar, and then “Show Status Bar.”
Merge Windows in Safari:
One of the new features in Safari 3 is the ability to take multiple windows of the application and merge them into one window as tabs.
To do this, simply open up multiple windows and select “Window” in the menu bar, and then “Merge All Windows.”
Reopen Lost Windows in Safari:
If you ever accidentally quit a Safari window that had multiple windows open, there is an easy trick to recovering the workspace.
Simply relaunch Safari, select “History” in the menu bar, and click on “Reopen All Windows from Last Session.”
Expedite Opening a Group of Pages in Safari:
A nice feature in Safari is being able to open up all the bookmarks in a folder at once by control-clicking on the folder if it is in the bookmarks bar, or just navigating through the menu bar if it is in the general bookmarks area.
To make opening up all the pages in a folder even more quickly, hold Command as you click on a folder in the bookmarks bar.
All the bookmarks stored in that folder should open up now.
Use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to watch videos in full-screen mode:
Some youtube-like flash players lose the full-screen function when they’re embedded into websites.
However, you can use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to achieve this.
Here’s what you do:
1. Zoom in until the video becomes as large as you want, but still small enough so that you can watch the whole screen.
You can achieve this with the Zoom in shortcut, which comes predetermined as option+command+’+’.
If that doesn’t work, you can enable it and redefine the shortcut in System Preferences –> Keyboard and Mouse –> Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Center it by moving the mouse around.
You’ll have to put the pointer right at the center of the video screen.
3. Once you’ve done that, get rid of the pointer in the middle by using the Screen Shot function.
You’re going to want to use the “Copy picture of SELECTED AREA…” instead of the “Take picture of screen”.
It’s usually command+shift+4, but you might want to check it first in System Preferences.
4. The pointer will change from the regular black arrow to a target-like symbol, which means it is waiting for you to select the area you want to take a picture of.
Instead of doing that, you should just move the mouse to the side, away from the screen, and not click on anything.
The result is your video on large-screen mode (it is not strictly full-screen, but it’ll be as large as it gets), and no picture will be taken since you will not actually select any area.
Once you’re done with watching the video, just Zoom out (option+command+’-’) and press Esc to recover your regular pointer.
It’s important to mention that this method will not cancel your Screen Saver or your Energy Saving mode. Therefore, make sure you disable them before applying this.
If you forgot to do it and get the Screen Saver in the middle of your video, you will not be able to disable it by simply moving the mouse, you will have to press Esc first.
The solution is actually easy:
You are accessing gmail on a Mac using Safari (2.x or 3.x BETA - 3.x on Leopard is fine), someone sends you a new Microsoft Office .docx format file, you download it, and it shows up as a .zip file.
Or worse, that zip file automatically decompresses to a folder - Ugh.
The solution is actually easy, but it's an annoyance since Firefox on Mac will download the file correctly - so it appears to be a problem specific to Safari in these pre-Leopard versions:
Google Groups : "The new default file format is zipped xml, which can get interpreted as a zip file by some software.
If this is the case, rename the file extension to .docx and then download the word2007 converter for the version of office you are currently using..."
NOTE: If you have Safari setup to automatically decompress files, you'll have the added hassle of finding that docx.zip file on your desktop as a folder. In this case, delete the folder and then retrieve the .zip version from your Trash and modify the extension on that.
Also, if you don't have Word for Mac, or the converter mentioned above, it's worth noting that NeoOffice for Mac supports the .docx file format - and it's free.
Use Save As in Safari 1.3's contextual menus:
Apple has changed some of the default contextual menu behaviors in Safari 1.3.
Previously, the default in contextual menus was "Download linked file as..." and "Save images as...". These have changed to automatically download or save to your downloads folder (configurable in the Preferences).
To get prompted for a location for the downloads and saves,
press the Option key when the contextual menu is visible.
NOTE: This is improved in Safari 3 - it's now an option in the contextual menu by default with no modifier key needed.
Smarter Saving Files in Folders in Safari:
Whenever you choose “Save File As…”(or Link As… and so forth) in Safari it opens the typical window that allows you to choose whatever folder to want to save the file by mouse.
However often I want to save an Emacs or Vim configuration or script to their respected hidden folders (~/.emacs.d or ~/.vim) and you can’t choose a hidden folder by default.
The inefficient way is to just download the file to some visible folder and then either move the file in the finder or use the mv command in the terminal.
The efficient and smart way is to go to the “Save File As…” window in Safari and do Command-Shift-G.
The window below will come up:
Now you put in the folder that you want, for example I would put in ~/.emacs.d and it would come up and I can choose so save my file in the hidden folder.
Inquisitor: Amazing Spotlight-like Search Add-on for Safari:
Inquisitor offers spotlight-like results for searches as you type. It is the killer app that got me using Safari again.
Not only does it display search results as you type, it can also guess what your searching for. It even offers other suggestions for your search. After a single day of using this I was hooked.
Add the fact it’s one of the most beautiful applications on OS X and you’ve got a killer app.
Inquisitor does such an amazing job of integrating with Safari, it’s easy to forget you’re using an add-on.
Inquisitor also offers other useful features, like tracking searches and sites you’ve previously visited.
Did I mention Inquisitor is free?
It pays for itself through affiliate links, which are disclosed now after a little controversy.
If this bothers you, there’s the option for disabling this in preferences.
If you’ve never played with Inquisitor, I highly suggest you give it a try. Pretty soon you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.The developer of Inquisitor, David Watanabe, also develops other high quality Mac apps such as Acquisition, Xtorrent and the recently free Newsfire.
Download Inquisitor 3
Close All Tabs Except One in Safari:
A nice keyboard shortcut in Safari allows you to close all tabs in a window except for one.
To do this, simply hold down option and click on the little “x” at the left end of the tab that you want to remain open.
All the other tabs will close.
Open Safari Tabs with 1-Click:
This is an extremely simple command that has changed my life, I’ve bee using it for years.
Just hold
and then click on the link you want opened in a new tab.Spell Check in Safari:
OS integration is one of the greatest things about OS X.
One of the things this allows is using the cross-application spell checker in Safari.
To activate spell check in Safari, press Command-: (colon) while in a text box, or select “Edit,” “Spelling and Grammar,” and finally “Show Spelling and Grammar.”
Create a Makeshift Saved Session in Safari:
An annoying thing about Safari is that it does not have a feature that enables you to save your session for the next time you launch the application.
However, there is a makeshift way to do it.
Make sure multiple tabs are open, and neither is empty.
Control-Click on the tabs bar, and select “Add Bookmark For These [#] Tabs….”
This will let you add a bookmark, which by default is called “Saved Tabs” and is placed in the bookmarks bar, containing the open tabs.
Now, you can press it the next time you launch Safari and it will bring up all the tabs you were working with.
Show Status Bar in Safari:
Safari can show a useful status bar at the bottom of each window that displays URLs when you mouse over links, as well as information about pages loading and other similar things.
To activate the status bar, simply enter Command-/ (Forward Slash) or select “View” from the menu bar, and then “Show Status Bar.”
Merge Windows in Safari:
One of the new features in Safari 3 is the ability to take multiple windows of the application and merge them into one window as tabs.
To do this, simply open up multiple windows and select “Window” in the menu bar, and then “Merge All Windows.”
Reopen Lost Windows in Safari:
If you ever accidentally quit a Safari window that had multiple windows open, there is an easy trick to recovering the workspace.
Simply relaunch Safari, select “History” in the menu bar, and click on “Reopen All Windows from Last Session.”
Expedite Opening a Group of Pages in Safari:
A nice feature in Safari is being able to open up all the bookmarks in a folder at once by control-clicking on the folder if it is in the bookmarks bar, or just navigating through the menu bar if it is in the general bookmarks area.
To make opening up all the pages in a folder even more quickly, hold Command as you click on a folder in the bookmarks bar.
All the bookmarks stored in that folder should open up now.
Use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to watch videos in full-screen mode:
Some youtube-like flash players lose the full-screen function when they’re embedded into websites.
However, you can use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to achieve this.
Here’s what you do:
1. Zoom in until the video becomes as large as you want, but still small enough so that you can watch the whole screen.
You can achieve this with the Zoom in shortcut, which comes predetermined as option+command+’+’.
If that doesn’t work, you can enable it and redefine the shortcut in System Preferences –> Keyboard and Mouse –> Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Center it by moving the mouse around.
You’ll have to put the pointer right at the center of the video screen.
3. Once you’ve done that, get rid of the pointer in the middle by using the Screen Shot function.
You’re going to want to use the “Copy picture of SELECTED AREA…” instead of the “Take picture of screen”.
It’s usually command+shift+4, but you might want to check it first in System Preferences.
4. The pointer will change from the regular black arrow to a target-like symbol, which means it is waiting for you to select the area you want to take a picture of.
Instead of doing that, you should just move the mouse to the side, away from the screen, and not click on anything.
The result is your video on large-screen mode (it is not strictly full-screen, but it’ll be as large as it gets), and no picture will be taken since you will not actually select any area.
Once you’re done with watching the video, just Zoom out (option+command+’-’) and press Esc to recover your regular pointer.
It’s important to mention that this method will not cancel your Screen Saver or your Energy Saving mode. Therefore, make sure you disable them before applying this.
If you forgot to do it and get the Screen Saver in the middle of your video, you will not be able to disable it by simply moving the mouse, you will have to press Esc first.
More Safari Tips ?
Having issues with docx attachments in Gmail on Safari (pre-Leopard)?
The solution is actually easy:
You are accessing gmail on a Mac using Safari (2.x or 3.x BETA - 3.x on Leopard is fine), someone sends you a new Microsoft Office .docx format file, you download it, and it shows up as a .zip file.
Or worse, that zip file automatically decompresses to a folder - Ugh.
The solution is actually easy, but it's an annoyance since Firefox on Mac will download the file correctly - so it appears to be a problem specific to Safari in these pre-Leopard versions:
Google Groups : "The new default file format is zipped xml, which can get interpreted as a zip file by some software.
If this is the case, rename the file extension to .docx and then download the word2007 converter for the version of office you are currently using..."
NOTE: If you have Safari setup to automatically decompress files, you'll have the added hassle of finding that docx.zip file on your desktop as a folder. In this case, delete the folder and then retrieve the .zip version from your Trash and modify the extension on that.
Also, if you don't have Word for Mac, or the converter mentioned above, it's worth noting that NeoOffice for Mac supports the .docx file format - and it's free.
Use Save As in Safari 1.3's contextual menus:
Apple has changed some of the default contextual menu behaviors in Safari 1.3.
Previously, the default in contextual menus was "Download linked file as..." and "Save images as...". These have changed to automatically download or save to your downloads folder (configurable in the Preferences).
To get prompted for a location for the downloads and saves,
press the Option key when the contextual menu is visible.
NOTE: This is improved in Safari 3 - it's now an option in the contextual menu by default with no modifier key needed.
Smarter Saving Files in Folders in Safari:
Whenever you choose “Save File As…”(or Link As… and so forth) in Safari it opens the typical window that allows you to choose whatever folder to want to save the file by mouse.
However often I want to save an Emacs or Vim configuration or script to their respected hidden folders (~/.emacs.d or ~/.vim) and you can’t choose a hidden folder by default.
The inefficient way is to just download the file to some visible folder and then either move the file in the finder or use the mv command in the terminal.
The efficient and smart way is to go to the “Save File As…” window in Safari and do Command-Shift-G.
The window below will come up:
Now you put in the folder that you want, for example I would put in ~/.emacs.d and it would come up and I can choose so save my file in the hidden folder.
Inquisitor: Amazing Spotlight-like Search Add-on for Safari:
Inquisitor offers spotlight-like results for searches as you type. It is the killer app that got me using Safari again.
Not only does it display search results as you type, it can also guess what your searching for. It even offers other suggestions for your search. After a single day of using this I was hooked.
Add the fact it’s one of the most beautiful applications on OS X and you’ve got a killer app.
Inquisitor does such an amazing job of integrating with Safari, it’s easy to forget you’re using an add-on.
Inquisitor also offers other useful features, like tracking searches and sites you’ve previously visited.
Did I mention Inquisitor is free?
It pays for itself through affiliate links, which are disclosed now after a little controversy.
If this bothers you, there’s the option for disabling this in preferences.
If you’ve never played with Inquisitor, I highly suggest you give it a try. Pretty soon you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
The developer of Inquisitor, David Watanabe, also develops other high quality Mac apps such as Acquisition, Xtorrent and the recently free Newsfire.
Download Inquisitor 3
Close All Tabs Except One in Safari:
A nice keyboard shortcut in Safari allows you to close all tabs in a window except for one.
To do this, simply hold down option and click on the little “x” at the left end of the tab that you want to remain open.
All the other tabs will close.
Open Safari Tabs with 1-Click:
This is an extremely simple command that has changed my life, I’ve bee using it for years.
Just hold and then click on the link you want opened in a new tab.
Spell Check in Safari:
OS integration is one of the greatest things about OS X.
One of the things this allows is using the cross-application spell checker in Safari.
To activate spell check in Safari, press Command-: (colon) while in a text box, or select “Edit,” “Spelling and Grammar,” and finally “Show Spelling and Grammar.”
Create a Makeshift Saved Session in Safari:
An annoying thing about Safari is that it does not have a feature that enables you to save your session for the next time you launch the application.
However, there is a makeshift way to do it.
Make sure multiple tabs are open, and neither is empty.
Control-Click on the tabs bar, and select “Add Bookmark For These [#] Tabs….”
This will let you add a bookmark, which by default is called “Saved Tabs” and is placed in the bookmarks bar, containing the open tabs.
Now, you can press it the next time you launch Safari and it will bring up all the tabs you were working with.
Show Status Bar in Safari:
Safari can show a useful status bar at the bottom of each window that displays URLs when you mouse over links, as well as information about pages loading and other similar things.
To activate the status bar, simply enter Command-/ (Forward Slash) or select “View” from the menu bar, and then “Show Status Bar.”
Merge Windows in Safari:
One of the new features in Safari 3 is the ability to take multiple windows of the application and merge them into one window as tabs.
To do this, simply open up multiple windows and select “Window” in the menu bar, and then “Merge All Windows.”
Reopen Lost Windows in Safari:
If you ever accidentally quit a Safari window that had multiple windows open, there is an easy trick to recovering the workspace.
Simply relaunch Safari, select “History” in the menu bar, and click on “Reopen All Windows from Last Session.”
Expedite Opening a Group of Pages in Safari:
A nice feature in Safari is being able to open up all the bookmarks in a folder at once by control-clicking on the folder if it is in the bookmarks bar, or just navigating through the menu bar if it is in the general bookmarks area.
To make opening up all the pages in a folder even more quickly, hold Command as you click on a folder in the bookmarks bar.
All the bookmarks stored in that folder should open up now.
Use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to watch videos in full-screen mode:
Some youtube-like flash players lose the full-screen function when they’re embedded into websites.
However, you can use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to achieve this.
Here’s what you do:
1. Zoom in until the video becomes as large as you want, but still small enough so that you can watch the whole screen.
You can achieve this with the Zoom in shortcut, which comes predetermined as option+command+’+’.
If that doesn’t work, you can enable it and redefine the shortcut in System Preferences –> Keyboard and Mouse –> Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Center it by moving the mouse around.
You’ll have to put the pointer right at the center of the video screen.
3. Once you’ve done that, get rid of the pointer in the middle by using the Screen Shot function.
You’re going to want to use the “Copy picture of SELECTED AREA…” instead of the “Take picture of screen”.
It’s usually command+shift+4, but you might want to check it first in System Preferences.
4. The pointer will change from the regular black arrow to a target-like symbol, which means it is waiting for you to select the area you want to take a picture of.
Instead of doing that, you should just move the mouse to the side, away from the screen, and not click on anything.
The result is your video on large-screen mode (it is not strictly full-screen, but it’ll be as large as it gets), and no picture will be taken since you will not actually select any area.
Once you’re done with watching the video, just Zoom out (option+command+’-’) and press Esc to recover your regular pointer.
It’s important to mention that this method will not cancel your Screen Saver or your Energy Saving mode. Therefore, make sure you disable them before applying this.
If you forgot to do it and get the Screen Saver in the middle of your video, you will not be able to disable it by simply moving the mouse, you will have to press Esc first.
The solution is actually easy:
You are accessing gmail on a Mac using Safari (2.x or 3.x BETA - 3.x on Leopard is fine), someone sends you a new Microsoft Office .docx format file, you download it, and it shows up as a .zip file.
Or worse, that zip file automatically decompresses to a folder - Ugh.
The solution is actually easy, but it's an annoyance since Firefox on Mac will download the file correctly - so it appears to be a problem specific to Safari in these pre-Leopard versions:
Google Groups : "The new default file format is zipped xml, which can get interpreted as a zip file by some software.
If this is the case, rename the file extension to .docx and then download the word2007 converter for the version of office you are currently using..."
NOTE: If you have Safari setup to automatically decompress files, you'll have the added hassle of finding that docx.zip file on your desktop as a folder. In this case, delete the folder and then retrieve the .zip version from your Trash and modify the extension on that.
Also, if you don't have Word for Mac, or the converter mentioned above, it's worth noting that NeoOffice for Mac supports the .docx file format - and it's free.
Use Save As in Safari 1.3's contextual menus:
Apple has changed some of the default contextual menu behaviors in Safari 1.3.
Previously, the default in contextual menus was "Download linked file as..." and "Save images as...". These have changed to automatically download or save to your downloads folder (configurable in the Preferences).
To get prompted for a location for the downloads and saves,
press the Option key when the contextual menu is visible.
NOTE: This is improved in Safari 3 - it's now an option in the contextual menu by default with no modifier key needed.
Smarter Saving Files in Folders in Safari:
Whenever you choose “Save File As…”(or Link As… and so forth) in Safari it opens the typical window that allows you to choose whatever folder to want to save the file by mouse.
However often I want to save an Emacs or Vim configuration or script to their respected hidden folders (~/.emacs.d or ~/.vim) and you can’t choose a hidden folder by default.
The inefficient way is to just download the file to some visible folder and then either move the file in the finder or use the mv command in the terminal.
The efficient and smart way is to go to the “Save File As…” window in Safari and do Command-Shift-G.
The window below will come up:
Now you put in the folder that you want, for example I would put in ~/.emacs.d and it would come up and I can choose so save my file in the hidden folder.
Inquisitor: Amazing Spotlight-like Search Add-on for Safari:
Inquisitor offers spotlight-like results for searches as you type. It is the killer app that got me using Safari again.
Not only does it display search results as you type, it can also guess what your searching for. It even offers other suggestions for your search. After a single day of using this I was hooked.
Add the fact it’s one of the most beautiful applications on OS X and you’ve got a killer app.
Inquisitor does such an amazing job of integrating with Safari, it’s easy to forget you’re using an add-on.
Inquisitor also offers other useful features, like tracking searches and sites you’ve previously visited.
Did I mention Inquisitor is free?
It pays for itself through affiliate links, which are disclosed now after a little controversy.
If this bothers you, there’s the option for disabling this in preferences.
If you’ve never played with Inquisitor, I highly suggest you give it a try. Pretty soon you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.The developer of Inquisitor, David Watanabe, also develops other high quality Mac apps such as Acquisition, Xtorrent and the recently free Newsfire.
Download Inquisitor 3
Close All Tabs Except One in Safari:
A nice keyboard shortcut in Safari allows you to close all tabs in a window except for one.
To do this, simply hold down option and click on the little “x” at the left end of the tab that you want to remain open.
All the other tabs will close.
Open Safari Tabs with 1-Click:
This is an extremely simple command that has changed my life, I’ve bee using it for years.
Just hold
and then click on the link you want opened in a new tab.Spell Check in Safari:
OS integration is one of the greatest things about OS X.
One of the things this allows is using the cross-application spell checker in Safari.
To activate spell check in Safari, press Command-: (colon) while in a text box, or select “Edit,” “Spelling and Grammar,” and finally “Show Spelling and Grammar.”
Create a Makeshift Saved Session in Safari:
An annoying thing about Safari is that it does not have a feature that enables you to save your session for the next time you launch the application.
However, there is a makeshift way to do it.
Make sure multiple tabs are open, and neither is empty.
Control-Click on the tabs bar, and select “Add Bookmark For These [#] Tabs….”
This will let you add a bookmark, which by default is called “Saved Tabs” and is placed in the bookmarks bar, containing the open tabs.
Now, you can press it the next time you launch Safari and it will bring up all the tabs you were working with.
Show Status Bar in Safari:
Safari can show a useful status bar at the bottom of each window that displays URLs when you mouse over links, as well as information about pages loading and other similar things.
To activate the status bar, simply enter Command-/ (Forward Slash) or select “View” from the menu bar, and then “Show Status Bar.”
Merge Windows in Safari:
One of the new features in Safari 3 is the ability to take multiple windows of the application and merge them into one window as tabs.
To do this, simply open up multiple windows and select “Window” in the menu bar, and then “Merge All Windows.”
Reopen Lost Windows in Safari:
If you ever accidentally quit a Safari window that had multiple windows open, there is an easy trick to recovering the workspace.
Simply relaunch Safari, select “History” in the menu bar, and click on “Reopen All Windows from Last Session.”
Expedite Opening a Group of Pages in Safari:
A nice feature in Safari is being able to open up all the bookmarks in a folder at once by control-clicking on the folder if it is in the bookmarks bar, or just navigating through the menu bar if it is in the general bookmarks area.
To make opening up all the pages in a folder even more quickly, hold Command as you click on a folder in the bookmarks bar.
All the bookmarks stored in that folder should open up now.
Use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to watch videos in full-screen mode:
Some youtube-like flash players lose the full-screen function when they’re embedded into websites.
However, you can use the Zoom in and Screen Shot shortcuts to achieve this.
Here’s what you do:
1. Zoom in until the video becomes as large as you want, but still small enough so that you can watch the whole screen.
You can achieve this with the Zoom in shortcut, which comes predetermined as option+command+’+’.
If that doesn’t work, you can enable it and redefine the shortcut in System Preferences –> Keyboard and Mouse –> Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Center it by moving the mouse around.
You’ll have to put the pointer right at the center of the video screen.
3. Once you’ve done that, get rid of the pointer in the middle by using the Screen Shot function.
You’re going to want to use the “Copy picture of SELECTED AREA…” instead of the “Take picture of screen”.
It’s usually command+shift+4, but you might want to check it first in System Preferences.
4. The pointer will change from the regular black arrow to a target-like symbol, which means it is waiting for you to select the area you want to take a picture of.
Instead of doing that, you should just move the mouse to the side, away from the screen, and not click on anything.
The result is your video on large-screen mode (it is not strictly full-screen, but it’ll be as large as it gets), and no picture will be taken since you will not actually select any area.
Once you’re done with watching the video, just Zoom out (option+command+’-’) and press Esc to recover your regular pointer.
It’s important to mention that this method will not cancel your Screen Saver or your Energy Saving mode. Therefore, make sure you disable them before applying this.
If you forgot to do it and get the Screen Saver in the middle of your video, you will not be able to disable it by simply moving the mouse, you will have to press Esc first.
More Safari Software ?
- Saft is a Safari plugin to add features like draggable tabs, full-screen browsing, searchable bookmarks and history, URL shortcuts, kiosk mode and more. Updated recently for Leopard
- 1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation.
- Videobox allows you to quickly and easily download Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet. Videobox will convert the video into a native Quicktime format so it's ready to view on your Mac, iPod, iPhone or iTunes.
- Web Snapper lets you capture web pages - exactly as they appear in your browser. You can send them to a file, as images or vector-based, multi-page PDFs.
- Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. It is free of charge and under the GPL license.
- Download Safari 3 For Windows XP or Vista (Safari 3 for Mac OS X Tiger is now included in the free 10.4.11 software update) or as part of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
- The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
- iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free. Now that both the iPhone and the iPod touch support web browsing, the user base who may be enjoying content optimized for the "mini Safari" experience will certainly grow. iPhoney is a great tool for basic testing if you don't happen to have hardware on hand.
- SafariSource is a SIMBL plugin that adds syntax coloring to Safari's source view.
- DeliciousSafari: Use and create del.icio.us bookmarks from the Safari web browser via a file-menu style interface
- Safari Bookmark Exporter is designed to do one thing and do it well: export bookmarks from Safari. Browser support:
Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, Mozilla. - Bookdog is the world's premier shepherd and guardian of your bookmarks for the world's premier operating system, Mac OS X. Bookdog can sort, organize, eliminate duplicates, automatically verify, migrate and synchronize bookmarks between Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb and Opera.
- SafariStand is another extension that offers a number of enhancements. Including an undocumented way to directly download flash video files from sites like YouTube (see BrandSpankingNew blog for details on this).
- The Safari Tidy plugin is a small plugin that lets you validate the webpages you browse for (x)html compliance.
- SafariBlock is a seamless extension to Safari Web Browser that supports ad-blocking.
- ForgetMeNot is a Safari plug-in which remembers the tabs and windows you have opened when you quit Safari, and reloads those same windows and tabs when you restart Safari.
- The Red Snapper is a light-weight Safari plugin that lets you capture web pages and save them out as a graphic or a PDF. Because the Red Snapper captures the "whole" web page - leaving out "unnecessary" elements like the browser trim.
- Cooliris is a set of free browser extensions that give you the power to quickly preview the underlying content of links without clicking. Simply rest your mouse over a link and see the content immediately.
- Safari Tidy plugin: The Tidy plugin for Safari checks websites for (x)html compliance using, what else, Tidy.
- MappingService is a utility for working with mapping websites. Select text (e.g. an address) in an email, webpage or other document, then choose Map from the Services menu to display a map using one of the following sites: Google Maps; ZoomIn Australia; ZoomIn New Zealand
- Safari Icon Manager: This little piece of software can browse, edit, and empty your Safari icon cache.
- AcidSearch is a search enhancement for Safari. It adds unlimited "Search Channels" to the Google search field (Free).
- Safarilicious parses your Safari bookmarks and allows to export them to your del.icio.us account. And even more, it has a nifty Update Option which, if activated, only exports those bookmarks which are not on your del.icio.us account yet.
- BM Safari Tabs 1.0 is a script that allows you to bookmark all of Safari's currently open tabs.
- Inquisitor 3 - "It's like Spotlight for the web. Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search. It'll auto-complete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts." (Now Free)
- PithHelmet is an extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to empower you the user to view the web as you like. You can block ad images, Flash, Shockwave or horrible midi loops - the world is your oyster.
- delicious2safari imports your del.icio.us bookmarks to Safari.
- SafariBookmarkChecker allows you check the validity of your Safari Bookmarks, FAST !, ie it can check 1'000 bookmarks in less than 2 minutes on a 1GHz machine.
- Safari Scrapbook is a standalone program; you can't access it from within Safari, nor does it require Safari to be running to work. It collects URLs from Safari's History folder. You can use it to keep track of websites visited with Safari months or even years from the visit date. Without it, Safari's History lasts only 14 days. Other options let you print the currently selected page or export the contents of a page in view as a text file, Stickies file or iPod Notes folder.
- Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. It uses the WebKit framework, so captures will look like page views in Safari.
More Safari Software ?
- Saft is a Safari plugin to add features like draggable tabs, full-screen browsing, searchable bookmarks and history, URL shortcuts, kiosk mode and more. Updated recently for Leopard
- 1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation.
- Videobox allows you to quickly and easily download Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet. Videobox will convert the video into a native Quicktime format so it's ready to view on your Mac, iPod, iPhone or iTunes.
- Web Snapper lets you capture web pages - exactly as they appear in your browser. You can send them to a file, as images or vector-based, multi-page PDFs.
- Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. It is free of charge and under the GPL license.
- Download Safari 3 For Windows XP or Vista (Safari 3 for Mac OS X Tiger is now included in the free 10.4.11 software update) or as part of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
- The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
- iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free. Now that both the iPhone and the iPod touch support web browsing, the user base who may be enjoying content optimized for the "mini Safari" experience will certainly grow. iPhoney is a great tool for basic testing if you don't happen to have hardware on hand.
- SafariSource is a SIMBL plugin that adds syntax coloring to Safari's source view.
- DeliciousSafari: Use and create del.icio.us bookmarks from the Safari web browser via a file-menu style interface
- Safari Bookmark Exporter is designed to do one thing and do it well: export bookmarks from Safari. Browser support:
Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, Mozilla. - Bookdog is the world's premier shepherd and guardian of your bookmarks for the world's premier operating system, Mac OS X. Bookdog can sort, organize, eliminate duplicates, automatically verify, migrate and synchronize bookmarks between Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb and Opera.
- SafariStand is another extension that offers a number of enhancements. Including an undocumented way to directly download flash video files from sites like YouTube (see BrandSpankingNew blog for details on this).
- The Safari Tidy plugin is a small plugin that lets you validate the webpages you browse for (x)html compliance.
- SafariBlock is a seamless extension to Safari Web Browser that supports ad-blocking.
- ForgetMeNot is a Safari plug-in which remembers the tabs and windows you have opened when you quit Safari, and reloads those same windows and tabs when you restart Safari.
- The Red Snapper is a light-weight Safari plugin that lets you capture web pages and save them out as a graphic or a PDF. Because the Red Snapper captures the "whole" web page - leaving out "unnecessary" elements like the browser trim.
- Cooliris is a set of free browser extensions that give you the power to quickly preview the underlying content of links without clicking. Simply rest your mouse over a link and see the content immediately.
- Safari Tidy plugin: The Tidy plugin for Safari checks websites for (x)html compliance using, what else, Tidy.
- MappingService is a utility for working with mapping websites. Select text (e.g. an address) in an email, webpage or other document, then choose Map from the Services menu to display a map using one of the following sites: Google Maps; ZoomIn Australia; ZoomIn New Zealand
- Safari Icon Manager: This little piece of software can browse, edit, and empty your Safari icon cache.
- AcidSearch is a search enhancement for Safari. It adds unlimited "Search Channels" to the Google search field (Free).
- Safarilicious parses your Safari bookmarks and allows to export them to your del.icio.us account. And even more, it has a nifty Update Option which, if activated, only exports those bookmarks which are not on your del.icio.us account yet.
- BM Safari Tabs 1.0 is a script that allows you to bookmark all of Safari's currently open tabs.
- Inquisitor 3 - "It's like Spotlight for the web. Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search. It'll auto-complete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts." (Now Free)
- PithHelmet is an extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to empower you the user to view the web as you like. You can block ad images, Flash, Shockwave or horrible midi loops - the world is your oyster.
- delicious2safari imports your del.icio.us bookmarks to Safari.
- SafariBookmarkChecker allows you check the validity of your Safari Bookmarks, FAST !, ie it can check 1'000 bookmarks in less than 2 minutes on a 1GHz machine.
- Safari Scrapbook is a standalone program; you can't access it from within Safari, nor does it require Safari to be running to work. It collects URLs from Safari's History folder. You can use it to keep track of websites visited with Safari months or even years from the visit date. Without it, Safari's History lasts only 14 days. Other options let you print the currently selected page or export the contents of a page in view as a text file, Stickies file or iPod Notes folder.
- Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. It uses the WebKit framework, so captures will look like page views in Safari.
Block Internet Ads
Tired of seeing pop-ads when you visit websites?
You can eliminate the vast majority of them quickly and easily in Safari. Here’s how:
1. Open Safari.
2. Choose Block Pop-Up Windows from the Safari menu
Wasn’t that easy?
You can eliminate the vast majority of them quickly and easily in Safari. Here’s how:
1. Open Safari.
2. Choose Block Pop-Up Windows from the Safari menu
Wasn’t that easy?
Block Internet Ads
Tired of seeing pop-ads when you visit websites?
You can eliminate the vast majority of them quickly and easily in Safari. Here’s how:
1. Open Safari.
2. Choose Block Pop-Up Windows from the Safari menu
Wasn’t that easy?
You can eliminate the vast majority of them quickly and easily in Safari. Here’s how:
1. Open Safari.
2. Choose Block Pop-Up Windows from the Safari menu
Wasn’t that easy?
Create a Dashboard Widget
Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard, you can make your own custom Dashboard widget.
In seconds. They’re called Web Clip widgets, and they’re easy to create.
Here’s how:
Click the Web Clip button in the Safari toolbar.
Position the clear box that appears over the Videos being watched right now section, click once to place it, then resize the box using the handles that appear along the sides of the box.
When it’s the size you want, click the Add button.
And your part’s done. Mac OS X Leopard does the rest, creating your widget and opening Dashboard, so you can check your handiwork. Since your new Web Clip is live, its contents will update automatically.
Click the little information button in the lower, right-hand corner to customize your widget’s border.
One more thing: Click a video (or a link on a featured story), and Mac OS X Leopard closes Dashboard, launches Safari, and takes you to the page whose link you clicked.
In seconds. They’re called Web Clip widgets, and they’re easy to create.
Here’s how:
Click the Web Clip button in the Safari toolbar.Position the clear box that appears over the Videos being watched right now section, click once to place it, then resize the box using the handles that appear along the sides of the box.When it’s the size you want, click the Add button.
And your part’s done. Mac OS X Leopard does the rest, creating your widget and opening Dashboard, so you can check your handiwork. Since your new Web Clip is live, its contents will update automatically.
Click the little information button in the lower, right-hand corner to customize your widget’s border.
One more thing: Click a video (or a link on a featured story), and Mac OS X Leopard closes Dashboard, launches Safari, and takes you to the page whose link you clicked.
Create a Dashboard Widget
Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard, you can make your own custom Dashboard widget.
In seconds. They’re called Web Clip widgets, and they’re easy to create.
Here’s how:
Click the Web Clip button in the Safari toolbar.
Position the clear box that appears over the Videos being watched right now section, click once to place it, then resize the box using the handles that appear along the sides of the box.
When it’s the size you want, click the Add button.
And your part’s done. Mac OS X Leopard does the rest, creating your widget and opening Dashboard, so you can check your handiwork. Since your new Web Clip is live, its contents will update automatically.
Click the little information button in the lower, right-hand corner to customize your widget’s border.
One more thing: Click a video (or a link on a featured story), and Mac OS X Leopard closes Dashboard, launches Safari, and takes you to the page whose link you clicked.
In seconds. They’re called Web Clip widgets, and they’re easy to create.
Here’s how:
Click the Web Clip button in the Safari toolbar.Position the clear box that appears over the Videos being watched right now section, click once to place it, then resize the box using the handles that appear along the sides of the box.When it’s the size you want, click the Add button.
And your part’s done. Mac OS X Leopard does the rest, creating your widget and opening Dashboard, so you can check your handiwork. Since your new Web Clip is live, its contents will update automatically.
Click the little information button in the lower, right-hand corner to customize your widget’s border.
One more thing: Click a video (or a link on a featured story), and Mac OS X Leopard closes Dashboard, launches Safari, and takes you to the page whose link you clicked.
Create a Bookmark
You Tube, the Onion, Apple Hot News, your bank, your local Craigs List, Wikipedia — if you visit the same websites on a regular basis, you can save yourself some time and keystrokes by creating bookmarks for those sites.
Let’s say you keep up with environmental news with regular visits to grist.org. The easiest way to create a bookmark is to:
1. Go to the site for which you’d like to create a bookmark.
2. Click the + sign in the Safari toolbar.
3. In the Sheet that drops down, type “grist” (or whatever name you’d like to use for the site), choose the folder — “News,” for example — where you’d like to keep it, and click the Add button.
And you’re done.
Next time you want to catch up on environmental news, instead of typing the name of the site, simply click the News folder (found in the Bookmarks bar of most Macs), and choose grist from the menu that appears.
Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock:
If you’re looking to make a bookmark in your Dock that will bring up all of your bookmarks, there is a way to do it with Safari.
First, you may not know it, but you can enter bookmarks:// in the Safari address bar and it will bring up all of your Bookmarks, just as if you pressed the Bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar.
If you try to drag this down into your Dock, though, Launches Services doesn’t quite know what to do with it, so it won’t actually launch your Bookmarks.
Here’s how to fix that:
1. Create a new Safari bookmark for the URL bookmarks://
2. Drag it to your Dock
3. Download and install the freeware application MisFox.
4. In this program click on the Protocol Helper tab.
5. Now press the New button.
6. Enter the protocol bookmarks, and for the Helper choose: /Applications/Safari.app
Now the Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock will correctly open your Safari bookmarks page when you open it.
Open Bookmark Groups with One Click in Safari:
One feature of Safari that is often over looked is the ability to open multiple sites at one time with just a few clicks.
So, if you have group of sites you visit every morning, you can easily load all of them at once in just one click.
To set them up all you have to do is:
1. Make sure the Bookmarks Bar is visible. If you don’t see it select View>Show Bookmarks Bar
2. Click on the Bookmarks icon in the bar to bring up your bookmarks.
3. In the Bookmarks Bar create a new folder (”Apple News” for example)
4. Add you favorite links into the folder
5. You’ll see the folder in your Bookmarks Bar - all you have to do is click it.
All the sites within that folder will open into tabs and load at once.
Be forewarned, however, they will replace any open tabs you have - so be sure you’re done with those other tabs, or open a new window before launching your bookmarked sites.
Let’s say you keep up with environmental news with regular visits to grist.org. The easiest way to create a bookmark is to:
1. Go to the site for which you’d like to create a bookmark.
2. Click the + sign in the Safari toolbar.
3. In the Sheet that drops down, type “grist” (or whatever name you’d like to use for the site), choose the folder — “News,” for example — where you’d like to keep it, and click the Add button.
And you’re done.
Next time you want to catch up on environmental news, instead of typing the name of the site, simply click the News folder (found in the Bookmarks bar of most Macs), and choose grist from the menu that appears.
Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock:
If you’re looking to make a bookmark in your Dock that will bring up all of your bookmarks, there is a way to do it with Safari.
First, you may not know it, but you can enter bookmarks:// in the Safari address bar and it will bring up all of your Bookmarks, just as if you pressed the Bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar.
If you try to drag this down into your Dock, though, Launches Services doesn’t quite know what to do with it, so it won’t actually launch your Bookmarks.
Here’s how to fix that:
1. Create a new Safari bookmark for the URL bookmarks://
2. Drag it to your Dock
3. Download and install the freeware application MisFox.
4. In this program click on the Protocol Helper tab.
5. Now press the New button.
6. Enter the protocol bookmarks, and for the Helper choose: /Applications/Safari.app
Now the Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock will correctly open your Safari bookmarks page when you open it.
Open Bookmark Groups with One Click in Safari:
One feature of Safari that is often over looked is the ability to open multiple sites at one time with just a few clicks.
So, if you have group of sites you visit every morning, you can easily load all of them at once in just one click.
To set them up all you have to do is:
1. Make sure the Bookmarks Bar is visible. If you don’t see it select View>Show Bookmarks Bar
2. Click on the Bookmarks icon in the bar to bring up your bookmarks.
3. In the Bookmarks Bar create a new folder (”Apple News” for example)
4. Add you favorite links into the folder
5. You’ll see the folder in your Bookmarks Bar - all you have to do is click it.
All the sites within that folder will open into tabs and load at once.
Be forewarned, however, they will replace any open tabs you have - so be sure you’re done with those other tabs, or open a new window before launching your bookmarked sites.
Create a Bookmark
You Tube, the Onion, Apple Hot News, your bank, your local Craigs List, Wikipedia — if you visit the same websites on a regular basis, you can save yourself some time and keystrokes by creating bookmarks for those sites.
Let’s say you keep up with environmental news with regular visits to grist.org. The easiest way to create a bookmark is to:
1. Go to the site for which you’d like to create a bookmark.
2. Click the + sign in the Safari toolbar.
3. In the Sheet that drops down, type “grist” (or whatever name you’d like to use for the site), choose the folder — “News,” for example — where you’d like to keep it, and click the Add button.
And you’re done.
Next time you want to catch up on environmental news, instead of typing the name of the site, simply click the News folder (found in the Bookmarks bar of most Macs), and choose grist from the menu that appears.
Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock:
If you’re looking to make a bookmark in your Dock that will bring up all of your bookmarks, there is a way to do it with Safari.
First, you may not know it, but you can enter bookmarks:// in the Safari address bar and it will bring up all of your Bookmarks, just as if you pressed the Bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar.
If you try to drag this down into your Dock, though, Launches Services doesn’t quite know what to do with it, so it won’t actually launch your Bookmarks.
Here’s how to fix that:
1. Create a new Safari bookmark for the URL bookmarks://
2. Drag it to your Dock
3. Download and install the freeware application MisFox.
4. In this program click on the Protocol Helper tab.
5. Now press the New button.
6. Enter the protocol bookmarks, and for the Helper choose: /Applications/Safari.app
Now the Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock will correctly open your Safari bookmarks page when you open it.
Open Bookmark Groups with One Click in Safari:
One feature of Safari that is often over looked is the ability to open multiple sites at one time with just a few clicks.
So, if you have group of sites you visit every morning, you can easily load all of them at once in just one click.
To set them up all you have to do is:
1. Make sure the Bookmarks Bar is visible. If you don’t see it select View>Show Bookmarks Bar
2. Click on the Bookmarks icon in the bar to bring up your bookmarks.
3. In the Bookmarks Bar create a new folder (”Apple News” for example)
4. Add you favorite links into the folder
5. You’ll see the folder in your Bookmarks Bar - all you have to do is click it.
All the sites within that folder will open into tabs and load at once.
Be forewarned, however, they will replace any open tabs you have - so be sure you’re done with those other tabs, or open a new window before launching your bookmarked sites.
Let’s say you keep up with environmental news with regular visits to grist.org. The easiest way to create a bookmark is to:
1. Go to the site for which you’d like to create a bookmark.
2. Click the + sign in the Safari toolbar.
3. In the Sheet that drops down, type “grist” (or whatever name you’d like to use for the site), choose the folder — “News,” for example — where you’d like to keep it, and click the Add button.
And you’re done.
Next time you want to catch up on environmental news, instead of typing the name of the site, simply click the News folder (found in the Bookmarks bar of most Macs), and choose grist from the menu that appears.
Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock:
If you’re looking to make a bookmark in your Dock that will bring up all of your bookmarks, there is a way to do it with Safari.
First, you may not know it, but you can enter bookmarks:// in the Safari address bar and it will bring up all of your Bookmarks, just as if you pressed the Bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar.
If you try to drag this down into your Dock, though, Launches Services doesn’t quite know what to do with it, so it won’t actually launch your Bookmarks.
Here’s how to fix that:
1. Create a new Safari bookmark for the URL bookmarks://
2. Drag it to your Dock
3. Download and install the freeware application MisFox.
4. In this program click on the Protocol Helper tab.
5. Now press the New button.
6. Enter the protocol bookmarks, and for the Helper choose: /Applications/Safari.app
Now the Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock will correctly open your Safari bookmarks page when you open it.
Open Bookmark Groups with One Click in Safari:
One feature of Safari that is often over looked is the ability to open multiple sites at one time with just a few clicks.
So, if you have group of sites you visit every morning, you can easily load all of them at once in just one click.
To set them up all you have to do is:
1. Make sure the Bookmarks Bar is visible. If you don’t see it select View>Show Bookmarks Bar
2. Click on the Bookmarks icon in the bar to bring up your bookmarks.
3. In the Bookmarks Bar create a new folder (”Apple News” for example)
4. Add you favorite links into the folder
5. You’ll see the folder in your Bookmarks Bar - all you have to do is click it.
All the sites within that folder will open into tabs and load at once.
Be forewarned, however, they will replace any open tabs you have - so be sure you’re done with those other tabs, or open a new window before launching your bookmarked sites.
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