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Safari

Put Safari 4 Tabs Back Where They Belong

by Matt on March 4, 2009

For those of you who have not yet played with Safari 4, Apple has released a beta version of the new web browser for Mac OS X. I was going to tell you that I like the browser so much that I have switched to it full-time from Firefox, but I’m not quite there: I [...]

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Save Time by Using the Keyboard in Safari

by Matt on February 10, 2009

Tom is a recent switcher from Windows, and he wants to know whether it is possible to control more of Safari from the keyboard in Mac OS X.
For those of you who haven’t tried this before, you can set your Mac to allow text boxes, popup menus, links, and other selectable items to be tabbed [...]

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Change How Your Web Browser Opens Tabs

by Matt on January 14, 2009

George wrote in to ask how he can avoid having his web browser immediately switch to new tabs when he asks his browser to open links in those new tabs. This little preference can often be a pain for the user. Some people want the browser to switch its view to the new tab, others [...]

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Bring Firefox Functionality to Safari

by Matt on December 3, 2008

Ah, the browser wars. We Mac users are blessed with a number of excellent web browsers, but the two most popular remain Safari and Firefox. With each release of Safari, the browser gets faster and faster, but the feature set remains relatively sparse. Unlike Firefox, Safari does not have an extensible add-on feature, so most [...]

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