The version of Safari that ships with Leopard, does not allow you to toggle the header off. I would click that button, and you should be back in business.

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Any other ideas what I could do?

How long does it take to give yourself access to the menus? If you look in your Utilities folder, there is an application called “Activity Monitor.app”, open that, and you can tell it to list running processes. You can also sort them by the ones using the most CPU time. This may provide a clue as to what is stalling out your computer.

If that does not work, come back and let us know and I will see what else I can come up with.

About the only thing you can do is to tell the site you will not visit it until they change their policy. If Enough people do this, they may change.

In a more advanced post, we are going to talk about ways to block certain things in Safari, with a 3rd party tool. You may be able to block that audio file.

As it stands now, audio and video can both be set to auto-play on any website, and there is little you can do about it.

What are you trying to accomplish? You want no sound byte on that one website, but audio to work on all others?

When I roll over your Google ads on the right, it says “Go to “http;//xxx…” in another frame”, but when I click on them they take over the current window.

Thanks for your assistance!

Your ads don’t open in a new window, though.

In the status bar, it says at the end “in a new frame”, but it opens in the same window as your website (not in a frame).

I would try a few things, go into your prefs and into the security section, click on show cookies, and search in there for ‘google’, you should see some with a name of PREF. Delete those, quit safari, and set your prefs again in google, that may fix it.

With the new preference set, when you hover over a search result, what does the status bar say? Does it make note that it will be trying to open in a new window?

Our Amazon ads off to the right are set to open in a new window, can you click once on any of those, and tell me if that works?

I am sure with a little more data we can get you through this.

Now if only I could figure out how to get Google to open links in a “new” window, it would be awesome.

Google has a preference to open links in a new window, and it works on Windows IE.

On the Mac, it uses one window, and if you happen to click on a series of links they use the same window and navigates you away from the link you clicked on previously.

Personally, I think it’s a bug, but I am not sure if it is a Safari bug or a Google bug.

If you have your preferences set to open all links in a new tab, I do not think you need to bother with with the right-click and clicking to open that link in a new tab. Assuming I understand you correct, that should happen with a normal click.

We will talk in great detail about tabs tomorrow, the post goes live at 12:01 AM PST. However, in the meantime, you could also hold the command key down, and issue a single left-click with the mouse, and that will open a link in a new tab as well.

I hope this helps clarify the matter, thanks for commenting.

My preference is to have one browser window open and multiple tabs open. In preferences I always choose the open link in new tab. When I’m reading an article and it has a link to another. I would normally right-click and choose to open that link in a new tab. How would I do this in Safari?