I hope you are going to do something with bookmark tips and tricks. I would especially like to see how to alphabetize my bookmarks in the left-side window. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas. I found them very helpful.

@Jenny, Bookmarks are going to start to be covered in tomorrows post, starting with the bookmarks bar, and then into the bookmarks manager.

Thanks for the tutorials on tabs. I’m getting used to the different way to open them. Along with some snazzy commands that Firefox doesn’t have. I think I’ll switch back to Safari now and use FF when some pages don’t open right in Safari.

One other thing. The fonts on each tab, especially the inactive ones, are hard to read. Is there a way to make the tabs different colors or change the font to white at least to make them more legible?

Love these tutorials, keep them coming!

@Donna, yes, the fonts are hard to read in the tabs, especially the inactive ones. As soon as I saw Leopard, that was one of the things I noticed as well. I hope Apple has heard complaints, as others share in this sentiment.

I am not aware of any way to deal with this, other than hacking the user interface. We may cover something like this, perhaps a year down the road, but it would not be the focus of the tutorials at this time.

I agree, the shadow is a bit too strong, and all in all, too close to the color of grey they are using in Safari. I tend to feel an inactive tab should be lighter in shade, not darker as well, but people may think I am crazy on that point

Thank you for these very useful tricks.

Scott, thank you very much for the great site, and for all the time and effort you invest into making life so much easier for all of us recent switchers. It’s priceless, really, and I’d like to let you know that what you do is greatly appreciated!
Here in Moscow, Russia, a visit to a good bookstore with dozens shelves of Windows-related books will leave you standing looking at a single copy of a Panther manual, and it will be all you can find on Mac OS. I am not exaggerating, it’s what happened to me a few days ago, before I discovered your site.
I really can’t thank you enough. Please keep it up.

As for this post, thanks for clarifying the function of the BACK button, I kind of missed the IE-style drop-down history menu on it – NOT ANY MORE
Thanks Scott.

@MacRussian, I have a client in Russia now, and more or less got the same story from him. He tells me they are getting him for internet access at 7.00 an hour in the daytime when he can not be at a friends office.

Glad we can be of some help. Keep reading, we have lots more to come.

Another reason I’ve found to open sites in background tabs is when I’m “Googling.” If I simply click on a link in my Google search, then I have to hit the back button to see my search again. What if I want to keep my search there as well as the first link I clicked, but continue searching? If I right-click (or ctrl-click) on the link in Google, then choose “Open link in new tab,” then the link opens in a new tab while leaving me to peruse my Google search more.

Thank you for having this site. I am an avid Mac user, but still managed to learn a few gems that I didn’t know I didn’t know.

@Koreen, hi, and welcome to the site. Thanks for your comments, I use that tactic very often. I think the most valuable one to me is the search in the google searchbox and press shift return to force those new results into a new tab as well.

Thanks for your input.

Thanks for all the page
Hope there will be iwork tutorials as well
My problem is that the cmd+return doesn’t work in the upper right google search box.
Keep opening results in the same window.
I’m on a macbook.

@Feldin, Caroline is playing in iWork as we speak, so hopefully she gets up to speed. if not, we will locate someone who knows those applications really well.

How are you tab preferences set? Have you tried command-return as well as command-enter?

I have tested this feature on so many Mac’s, and it has never not worked for me. You have no third party Safari extensions installed?

I’m glad to hear that Looking forward to that.

I’m on a macbook, so i have only one of the return and enter.
I dont know wich one so called is in the notebook.
I have inquisitor installed.
Cuould it be the problem?

And to the future, maybe some safari plugin suggestions?

Thanks for the quick answer.

@Feldin, just installed Feldin, it broke my ability to use command-return, which makes sense because it takes over the entire google search box.

I removed it, and it works fine again. Maybe in the future we will cover plug-ins, none are supported, and only if they do not break things would we cover them.

Thanks for writing in.

and my tab preferences are: cmnd + click open in new tab enabled
comfirm when closing multiple tabs enabled

ok. thanks.

and so what is going on when the “back” button has now disappeared from any tool bar or anywhere else on the screen. I am trying to help a friend — on a Mac with Safari — and this has me stumped. Yes — I am not a tech and a PC guy, but can usually figure these things out.

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You can hold the control key and click anywhere in any toolbar, that means finder windows, or most apps, and you will get a pop up menu that “Customize” will be one of the options.

Just select that item, and you can drag and drop new items into place. Drag the ones you do not like off screen, and they will poof away, drag the ones you do like back on.