Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Today let me show you ten things that you may not
know you can do in Safari on the Mac. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a
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content and course discounts. So first, did you know you could read open tabs
that you accidentally closed. I use this all the time. For instance let's say I close this tab
here. I can instantly Undo. If you look at Edit, Undo it's Undo Close Tab. A quick Command Z will
being that tab back. But there are other ways to do it as well. You can go to History and
then there's Recently Closed and see a list of recently closed tabs. Right under it is Reopen
Last Closed Tab, Shift Command T. If you close the entire window like this you could bring it back
by going to History, and then it's Reopen Last Closed Window and all the tabs return. If you were
to Quit Safari and then relaunch it and you've got your System Preferences set so it opens a fresh
new window, not the previous one, you can go to History and use Reopen Last Closed Window there.
But also Reopen All Windows from Last Session. Now you may know you could use the Back Button, clicking it will go back to the previous page.
But if you click and Hold the back button you get a list of all of the pages that you've been to.
The same is true for the Forward Button as well. Now sometimes searching and then finding
the webpage that you want isn't enough. You need to find the information on the webpage.
So while you're on a page you can use Command F and it brings up a Search Box at the top that
will search the webpage. You can set it to Begins With or Contains, do a search, and then it
will tell you how many matches and you can flip through each one. It's really handy for
finding information very deep in an article. Now sometimes you want to have a Tab or a
Window open but you don't necessarily want to have a webpage loaded up in it. You could go
to Safari, Preferences and under General set New Windows to open with empty page or New Tabs
to open with empty page. But what happens if you want to take the existing tab and just have
that display a blank page for the time being. This is a tip that goes back to the very
beginning of web browsers in the early '90's. What you need to do is go to the location
About colon blank. No spaces. That loads up a blank page. An example of when you may use
this is say you're about to give a presentation and you know you're going to be showing stuff
on the web so you want to get your browser all setup and ready with the window the size and
the location that you want. But you don't want to display anything yet. You can go to about:blank
and just display a blank page for the time being. Now when you go to download something from a
webpage you can click the Download link and it will save that to your Downloads folder. But
what if you want to save it to a specific location on your drive. You don't want to have to change
location of the Downloads folder all the time. Instead you can Control click on the Link,
two-finger click on a trackpad or a right click on the Mouse. Bring up the Context
Menu and you use Download Linked File As. This allows you to choose a
location. You can expand this and choose any location to save this file. So a
quick click will save it to your Downloads folder and Control click and then Download Linked
File As will save it to a location you want. If you're always doing this and never using the
Downloads folder you can go into Preferences and then under General, File Download Location.
You could set it to Ask for Each Download. When you want to search for something you could
just type what you want in the Address Bar here. Hit Return and it will give you search
results, usually at Goggle. But you could change the search engine that's used by default
by going to Safari, Preferences, and under Search and you could set the Search engine
to one of five different options. Now matter what you're default is set to you
don't have to use the Address Bar to search. You could go directly to the Search
Engine and search using their page. Now when you're at a site you may want to
Zoom in by using Zoom In and Zoom Out or the keyboard shortcuts for those. If you
find that you're always doing that on a certain website you can set defaults for
that website. Go to Safari, Preferences, Websites, and then look for Page Zoom. Here it
will show me the currently open sites. But even if I don't have the site open if I set something
different, like I bumped Wikipedia up to 125%, it will appear in this list. You can change
the default right here to whatever you want and it will remember that. You could set the
default for all other websites right here. Another thing that you could set right here that's
really handy is pop-up windows. Select that. It'll show you the current websites and any that
you've set something for other than the default. So you can set a specific website to Always Allow
Pop-ups. But why would you want to do that? Well I find a lot of websites, particularly financial
ones like banks and tax sites, and some things like that, have downloads tied to pop-up
windows. So if you don't allow pop-ups sometimes downloading from the site doesn't quite work
right. Fortunately those sites usually don't have ads on them of any kind so allowing pop-ups
is pretty harmless and then the site works better. A fairly new feature in Safari is the ability
to automatically translate a webpage. When you go to a webpage that's not in your language you
usually get this little button here that you can click and it will translate for you. Now you
can see a lot of the text has been translated, although text in images of course won't be
translated. Then as you browse that site it will continue to perform the
translation until you turn it off. Now I showed you before how you could zoom in on
a webpage by going to View Zoom-In and Zoom-Out. But if you hold the Option key this changes
to Make Text Bigger, Make Text Smaller. It's like zoom but it won't zoom images. Only
text. So Option Command and then + you could see changes the size of the text but not the
size of the images. In most cases this is all you really want when you zoom-in on a webpage.
You just want to make the text a little bigger. Now when you're at a webpage like this, in the
Address Bar all you'll see is the domain name. You won't see the actual page you're at.
Clearly we're not at Wikipedia.org here. We are at a specific page in Wikipedia. If I click
on the Address Bar I can see the full location. But I could also see that by default. If I go
to Safari, Preferences and then Advanced I could select Show Full Website Address and you could see
I'll always see the full address here at the top. You could also navigate in Safari using just
the keyboard. You don't have to go to System Preferences and turn on any Accessibility
functions to do that. In Safari, Preferences, under Advanced look at Accessibility here. There's
an option here to Press Tab to Highlight each item on the webpage. But note is also says that using
Option, Tab will give you this functionality without even turning this on. So while I'm here
if I were to normally tab it would go to places like the Search field here. But if I Option Tab
it actually jumps around to all of the links. If I want to go to a link I can just press
Return. Then, of course, in conjunction with other keyboard shortcuts, like under History
the keyboard shortcuts for going back, forward, Home, and under File the ability to go
to the Address Bar to type a new address, Command L, I can navigate pretty much
anywhere I want using just the keyboard. Now a lot of times when we want to search
for something we want to actually search for a webpage we've already been to. If you do
a search here at the top you can see Bookmarks and History here and it will find a result
that's in your history without you having to go to Goggle or another search engine to find the
page again. But you could also go to History, Show All History and at the top here you can
search just your history and find just the pages that you've been to recently. A quick
way to do that with the keyboard is use the shortcut Command Y. Then do Command F to move
to the Search Field and then just start typing. So there are some things that you might
not have known that you could do in Safari on your Mac. I hope you found this useful.
