Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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Turning on tabbed browsing unlocks a whole raft of Safari shortcuts and tricks, which

are just the sort of thing power surfers gulp down like Gatorade:

• If there’s a certain set of Web sites you like to visit daily, put the bookmarks into one

folder, using the Bookmarks organizer window (Figure 11-5). You can then load

all of them at once into a single tabbed window, simply by selecting the resulting

“folder” in the Bookmarks menu—or the Bookmarks bar—and choosing Open

in Tabs from the submenu.

The beauty of this arrangement is that you can start reading the first Web page

while all of the others load into their own tabs in the background.

Tip: Click the book icon at the left end of the Bookmarks bar. In the Bookmarks organizer, click the Bookmarks

Bar icon in the left-side list. Now you can see an Auto-Click checkbox for each listed folder.

If you turn on this checkmark, you can then open all the bookmarks in that folder into tabs, all at once,

merely by clicking the folder’s name in the Bookmarks bar. (If you want to summon the normal menu from

the folder, just hold the mouse button down.)

• If you Option-click a tab’s X (close) button, you close all tabs except the one you

clicked. The same thing happens if you hold down Option and choose FileÆClose

Other Tabs, or if you press Option-c-W.

• If you Option-c-click a link, it opens ...