Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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If you can’t decide on a home page, or your mood changes from day to day, use the

“New window open with” pop-up menu to choose Empty Page. Some people prefer

this setup, which makes Safari load very quickly when you first open it. Once the empty

window opens, then you can tell the browser where you want to go today.

Tip: In the SafariÆPreferencesÆGeneral tab, you can also choose Bookmarks. Then, whenever you open

a new window or launch Safari, you can choose exactly which page you want to open by choosing from a

list of your bookmarks.

Return to the past

The History menu lists the Web sites you’ve visited in the last week or so, neatly or-

ganized into subfolders like “Earlier Today” and “Yesterday.” (A similar menu appears

when you click and hold on the Back or Forward button.) These are great features if

you can’t recall the URL for a Web site that you remember having visited recently.

Tabbed Browsing

Beloved by hard-core surfers the world over (and famously lacking in Internet Ex-

plorer) is tabbed browsing, a way to keep a bunch of Web pages open simultaneously

in a single, neat window. Figure 11-5 illustrates the concept.

Figure 11-5:

Top: First, turn on

tabbed browsing in

Safari’s Preferenc-

esÆTabs pane. (For

best results, also

turn on “Select new

tabs as they are

created.”)

Bottom: Now, when

you c-click a link,

or type an address

and press ...