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Safari 4 Tips and Tricks

Tallest Skil said:
This works fine, but when I restart Safari, it clears all the ones that I added manually. How do I get them to ACTUALLY stay?.
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I don't know why they're not sticking for you. They do for me, regardless of Safari Resets, reboots, logging off/on. I do have a suggestion that might make it easier to put them back:

  1. Decide which sites you want and in what order
  2. Open each of those sites, in order, in a separate tab. (For example, if you choose "Medium" as your Top Sites layout, there are 12 sites, so you should have only 12 tabs open, the first being the first site, 2nd being the 2nd site, and so on.)
  3. Click Bookmarks > "Add Bookmark For These 12 Tabs" (change the folder name from "Saved Tabs" to "Top Sites"
  4. Now you have a folder called "Top Sites" with bookmarks for each of your 12 folders, in the order you want them to appear in Top Sites.
  5. Clear any "push-pinned" site in Top Sites.
  6. Reset Safari to clear your history and cache.

  7. Click on your "Top Sites" bookmark folder and select "Open in Tabs"
  8. Go look at your Top Sites. All the sites should be as you want them.
  9. If so, Edit Top Sites and make sure they're all "pinned".
You're done!
From now on, if you lose your Top Sites, just repeat steps 7-9
(At least this is what worked for me! I hope it works this way for others!)

I hope this helps!
 
Tabs

Is there a preference to change how links open?
when I click a link I want it to open in a new tab. The only way I see to do that is "Command + click)
Is there a way to just click and have it open in a new tab?
 
shady825 said:
Is there a preference to change how links open?
when I click a link I want it to open in a new tab. The only way I see to do that is "Command + click)
Is there a way to just click and have it open in a new tab?
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Look two posts before mine and you'll see the Tweaks menu item that says "JavaScript No New Windows" That forces JavaScript to open tabs instead of windows. For links you click, do this:

In Terminal type:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Then restart Safari.
 
GGJstudios said:
Look two posts before mine and you'll see the Tweaks menu item that says "JavaScript No New Windows" That forces JavaScript to open tabs instead of windows. For links you click, do this:

In Terminal type:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Then restart Safari.
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Thanks for the help
 
shady825 said:
Is there a preference to change how links open?
when I click a link I want it to open in a new tab. The only way I see to do that is "Command + click)
Is there a way to just click and have it open in a new tab?
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The way I've done it for years (even back in my Windows days) is to use the middle mouse button to click the link. That opens the link in a new tab is Safari and Firefox. I always use 3-button (or more) mice because I think they offer much more functionality than the standard 1-button Apple mouse.
 
jc1350 said:
The way I've done it for years (even back in my Windows days) is to use the middle mouse button to click the link. That opens the link in a new tab is Safari and Firefox. I always use 3-button (or more) mice because I think they offer much more functionality than the standard 1-button Apple mouse.
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It's not a one button mouse. You can enable right-clicks in System Preferences.
 
Bookmark/Favorites preview - indexing in folders

Does anyone having a tip how to load all the previews of favorites, which are sited within a bookmark folder? OK, open all the links in taps would be one... but maybe there is a smarter way of doing it?
Thank you
 
Does anyone know how to change the Google search toolbar to Google UK? I tried the method used for Safari 3, but it doesn't seem to work.
 
Timmbo said:
Does anyone know how to change the Google search toolbar to Google UK? I tried the method used for Safari 3, but it doesn't seem to work.
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paulsalter said:
I havent tried it myself, but have seen this mentioned and provides that feature

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27708/glims
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Glims build 13, as Paul has noted, is a partial solution. You can set up a list of custom search engines and Safari will use the one at the top of your custom list. There's no way to select another one from the drop-down, as you can with Safari 3, at the moment. Hopefully, the developers are on the case, though.

I'm sticking with 3 until they release a new version.
 
I really like Safari and version 4 is even better and faster than 3. Still I have a few gripes that apparently haven't been fixed yet...
1. Ability to sort bookmarks alphabetically
2. 'Show All Bookmarks' doesn't open in a new window/tab but takes over current window
3. No 'most visited' folder in bookmarks bar that is quicker than the 'top sites' option. While top sites looks good it also takes longer and takes over the current window.

If anyone has any workarounds :)
 
How does one disable the Top Sites "website preview fetcher"?? I could care less if it updates or not with the star in the upper corner, and it seems to be a CPU hog (if only momentarily).
 
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