November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 51 | Browse Back via the Keyboard in Safari |
Here’s a simple hidden tweak that allows you to hit the Delete key (top right of the keyboard above the Return key; sometimes called Backspace on PC keyboards) to go back to the previous page in Safari—the equivalent of hitting the back button on the main toolbar. Once the tweak is activated, you can also hit Shift+Delete to go forward in your browser history (that is, the equivalent of clicking the forward toolbar button).
For those who like to keep their hands on the keyboard rather than the mouse, this is a very useful tweak and was a default choice in releases of OS X up until Mountain Lion, where it was deactivated because of the risk of accidentally hitting it while filling in web forms.
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