1. Tabs Navigation
In Safari 3.0 you can Navigate through your Tabs, just press Command+Shift+] to go to the next Tab, if you Press Command+} you will be moving your Safari History Forward.
To go to te Previous Tab Command+Shift+[ or if you Press Press Command+{ you will be moving your History back.
Command+Click over a link: open the link in a new tab
Command+T : Create a Blank Tab
Option+Tab Close: Closes all tabs except the one clicked
2. Merge Open Windows
There is a nice command called Merge All Windows that lets you put together all your Windows in different tabs in only one window. Go to the Window Menu at the top of Safari and search for Merge All Windows.
3. SnapBack
You can mark a page as a Snapback and use it as a returning or starting point, you mark it, navigate other pages and when you want to return to the starting point just go to History and click the previously marked pages. It is good for Search Results, you mark the result pages then go check the links and when you need to start from the Search Result just click it at the History Snapback section.
4. Opening your Bookmarks Bar Links
In Safari you can open your Bookmarks Bar links using the Command+THE POSITION NUMBER OF THE LINK.
Command+1 opens the first links (left to right)
Command+2 opens the second and so on.
If you need to open any link from the Bookmarks Bar in a new Tab, just press Command and click on
the link to open and it will be launched in a new blank Tab.
Command+Click = New Tab with clicked link.
Option+Click = Download the web page of the clicked link.
Control+Click = Open a Dialog that lets you choose if you want to open the link, in a new window of tab, if you want to edit the name or the address it points, remove the link from the Bookmarks Bar or open the link in Collection Mode.
5. Command+Click on the Title of the Website.
If you Press Command and Click the Title you can navigate the hierarchy of any webpage.
6. Mailing a web address link
You can mail any web page just pressing Command+Shift+i, it will open Mail with the link of the page where you pressed the keys combination.
7. Detaching and attaching Tabs
To detach a Tab and make a windows with it just drag it down and it will open in a front window. If you want to a Tab from a window you can use Merge All Windows or simply drag the favicon to the Tab area and a new tab will be created with that address.
8. Searching for content
While you navigate any given page and find something that is out of your acknowledge, there are a key combination that can quickly help you.
Press Control+Click over the word you need to research and a Dialog will let you search for it meaning in Spotlight, Google and in Apple Dictionary.
9. Controlling how Safari interacts with Google Search
If you want to search for two different words, but want Google to exclude a search term from the results, just use this options:
+mac -desinformado.com
Searching for Mac and desinformado, will perform a search for mac but will exclude results from desinformado.
10. Safari Inspect Element
There is a nice feature hide in Safari, it’s called the Inspect Element, this feature is really helpful to web developers looking for the easier and faster to way to streamline their development proccesses. With the Inspect Element you can see the inner side of any web page, how it is constructed, the html code, the CSS and more.
To make this feature works, you must open the Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
To turn it off just type:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool false.
Happy hunting, Happy Safari….
