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Safari keyboard shortcuts

Written by Philip Roy
In Safari, you can select the toolbar bookmarks by pressing cmd-1 through to cmd-9. However, it only works for the first nine bookmarks. The bookmarks bar isn't counted, and neither is are pop-down menus, such as the "news" menu in the default setup.
Last Updated Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Keyboard scrolling in Safari

Written by Philip Roy

When you're trying to read a long web page, do you scroll up and down with the scroll bar? Give away all that wrist-straining fine mouse movement and use the keyboard.

First, click on the page and then use the Space bar to scroll down and Shift-Space to scroll up. 'Command [' will take you back a page and 'Command ]' will take you forward.

You can get around very quickly with these few keyboard commands.

Oh, and in Internet Explorer use Space for down, Option-Space for up and 'Command [' and 'Command ]' for Back and Forward.

Last Updated Tuesday, 30 November 1999

How do I block ads when using Safari?

Written by Philip Roy
PithHelmet is a piece of freeware (free software) that helps with this...

http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php
Last Updated Tuesday, 30 November 1999

How do I add greater search engine functionality to Safari?

Written by Philip Roy
AcidSearch is an excellent program to use to do this...
http://www.pozytron.com/?acidsearch

As well as Inquisitor...
http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/
Last Updated Tuesday, 30 November 1999

How do I get web links in Safari 3.1 to open in a tab?

Written by Darryn Lowe

By default, the way to do this is:

• Go to the Safari menu and choose "Preferences"
• In the "Tab" section, make sure that the option is ticked in the image that you see below

Now, when you come to a link, hold the "Command" key (the key on your keyboard that matches that funny symbol) and then click on a link. In other words, the process is not completely automatic.

BUT !!!!

The ability to have all links that open in a new window, open in a new tab instead can actually be activated in Safari 3.1. Here's how....

• Open up Terminal (located at....Applications/Utilities/).
• Copy and paste this into the terminal window:
• defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
• This will set Safari to open all links in a new tab thus having a single window instead of windows all over the place. 

Last Updated Tuesday, 25 March 2008