Organize Your Web Surfing with Tabs

You can organize and speed up your Web surfing while reducing clutter by using tabs in the Safari Web browser. Tabs enable you to open multiple Web sites within the same browser window and switch between them easily. This prevents you from having to open multiple windows to accommodate multiple Web sites.

After you activate tabbed browsing in Safari, you can use tabs much as you would use the Open in New Window menu command in any other Web browser. Each tab can display its own Web page. You can also open links in new tabs by using the tab keyboard shortcuts.

Each tab, like each window in nontabbed browsers, displays the title of the Web page within it. A tab also lets you know when it has completed the download of the Web page associated with it. Then, when you are finished reading the Web page shown within a tab, you can close it by clicking the tab's Close icon.

ACTIVATE TABBED BROWSING.

1. Click the Safari icon in the Dock.
   
   
2. Press ⌘-, (comma).
   The Safari Preferences window opens.
   
   
3. Click Tabs to open its settings pane.
   
   
4. Click Enable Tabbed Browsing.
   
   
5. Click the Close button to close the Preferences window.
   Tabbed browsing is now enabled.
   
   
6. Press ⌘-T.
   A new tab appears in the Web browser.
   
   
7. Type the URL of another Web site and press Return.
   
   Note: You can also click a bookmark in your Bookmark bar.
   
   The Web site loads in the new tab
   
   
   
   
   
8. While pressing and holding ⌘, click a Web page link.
   The Web site loads in a new tab, but remains in the background.
   
   
9. Press ⌘-W to close the current tab.
   The current tab closes, and the last tab you opened becomes the active tab.
   
   
10. Click the Close icon on any tab to close it.
    

TIPS

Did You Know?
You can quickly close all the tabs in a Safari window by pressing ⌘-Option-W. All the tabs you have created immediately close, leaving the enclosing window active. You can also press ⌘-Shift-Left Arrow to open the tab to the left of the current tab, and ⌘-Shift-Right Arrow to open the tab to the right of the current tab.

Customize It!
By Control-clicking a tab (or right-clicking it if you have a two- or three-button mouse), you can access a few hidden tab features. The contextual menu that appears when you click permits you to open a new tab, or reload or close an existing tab. It also lets you close all other tabs besides the current one.

Reprinted from Mac OS X Tiger: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks, copyright 2005, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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