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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Yosemite Edition
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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Yosemite Edition

by David Pogue
January 2015
Beginner
812 pages
28h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Customizing the Toolbar

You can summon or dismiss individual buttons on the toolbar, customizing it to your liking (Figure 12-7).

Here’s a catalog of your options:

  • Back/Forward. Click the Back button () to revisit the page you were just on, or to return to the page you were on before you clicked the Back button. See the beginning of this chapter for more details.

  • iCloud Tabs offer a way to open whatever browser windows and tabs you had open on your other Apple gadget, like an iPhone or iPad or another Mac (running OS X Mountain Lion or later). Thanks to the miracle of iCloud syncing, the last windows and tabs you had open on that other gadget (even if the gadget is turned off) show up here.

  • Share () lets you send the current Web page to the Reading List, install it as a bookmark, or send it by email; Message, Twitter, and Facebook let you send the current Web page as a text message, a tweet, or a Facebook update with a single click. See Fetching a file for details.

  • Show All Tabs. See Tab View.

  • Top Sites opens, of course, the Top Sites window (Top Sites).

  • Home. Click to bring up the Web page you’ve designated as your home page (in the Safari→Preferences→General tab).

  • History. Click to open the ...

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