Setting Safari Preferences
You can set lots of preferences for Safari. The key ones are explained in this section. To go to the Preferences dialog box, choose Safari⇒Preferences or press 
+, (comma). It has ten panes: General, Bookmarks, Tabs, AutoFill, Passwords, Security, Privacy, Notification, Extensions, and Advanced.
New Feature
New panes in Safari 6.0's Preferences dialog box are Passwords and Notifications. Gone are the Appearance and RSS panes from previous versions.
The General pane and the Security pane, both shown in Figure 17.9, have many of the critical preferences.
General pane
These options are available in the General pane:
• Default Web Browser: This pop-up menu determines which browser is opened by default when you click a hyperlink in another program. If you have other browsers installed on your Mac, they display in the pop-up menu's options. Safari is the default choice.
• Default Search Engine: This pop-up menu lets you choose Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, or Baidu as your default search engine; Google is the default.
Figure 17.9
The General pane (left), Security pane (upper right), and Privacy pane (lower right) of the Safari Preferences dialog box
• New Windows Open With: This pop-up menu enables you to choose what appears in new windows: the home page (the ...
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