I like the ability to “Reopen all windows from last session” (in the History menu).

This allows you to quit your browser while some windows are populated, and get them back when you reopen Safari.

I some how have missed understood something. How do I get more than one tab to appear on the tab bar?

@Julius, Make sure you have the tab bar showing, you do this with Show Tab Bar in the View menu. From there, you can go to the File menu and select New Tab, or command click a link to open it in a new tab.

On the MacBook Air rather than right click or command click, simply put your index and middle finger together and tap on the hyper-link, it should offer you the menu choice and than select open new tab.

I loved using tabs when I had a pc & FF~but with Expose and Spaces tabs have become obsolete for me…

“Also new to Safari on OS X 10.5 Leopard is the ability to rearrange tabs. Just grab a hold of one with your mouse, and move it to the left or right. You will see the other tabs scurry to get out of the way. When you have your selected tab where you want it, just release the mouse.”

Just to clarify if I may: This function is not just for OS X 10.5. It also works in 10.4, if you have Safari 3. Also, the ability to pull a tab down and create a new window with it also exists in Safari 3 on Tiger.

@Morgan, right you are, sorry, I forgot Apple still pushes out Safari 3 for 10.4, thanks for the clarification.

I still haven’t found a way to get my new tabs to open in my home page. They always open on a blank untitled doc.
I also would like Safari to include the ability (as Firefox does) to put a New Tab button in the Toolbar.
Any hope for me?

@Chris, to make a new tab button, you have to get pretty technical. it certainly can be done, but you need to install developer tools and dig a little deeper than I am willing to post here.

One quick way to do it is to enter in ‘about:blank’ in the URL bar and press return. This will just load a blank page. Then drag that URL into your bookmarks bar, and give it a name like ‘New Tab’, then just command-click on that bookmark button.

I also can not see to get a new tab to open my home page. If I have some more time, I will research this and report back.

If you have a multi button mouse you could program one of the buttons, to open a new tab, which would probably be the most convenient.

Thanks. Good info. Good idea about the bookmarks bar tab.
I appreciate the time and info.

You can also make pull a separate browser window back into an existing browser window. Click and hold the tab on the separate window and drag it to the Safari window you want it in. If that is the only tab you have open, it will close the separate browser.

Safari’s 3.1 update makes “File - New Tab obsolete. Just as with Firefox, just double click beside an existing tab and a new one appears. (I found this out by accident because I’ve done this out of habit with other browsers.)

@DougW, great tip, had no idea, while I use the command-T method, on a lazy laptop day, this has been coming in handy as I am usually laying down and can not easily reach the keyboard, thanks again.

One problem I have with Safari’s tabs is the three key shortcut used to navigate between the tabs. I haven’t found a way to change this, perhaps you know of one.

Something like Firefox control+tab would be great.

@David, correct, the keyboard shortcuts are indeed different. I think in large part this is intentional, as any app in OS X that uses tabs will use those shortcuts. In my humble opinion, I think FireFox should use the same shortcuts, to be consistent. However, it is your computer, and you should be able to use whatever you want.

Just go to the Keyboard and Mouse System Preferences, and select Keyboard Shortcuts. Click the “+” button and select the application (e.g. Safari.app), or “All Applications”.

Type in the name of the menu item you want to change the shortcut for (e.g. “Select Previous Tab” as it shows up in Safari’s Window menu). Then just enter a shortcut - I set mine to Cmd-[, so it’s the same as Firefox. Repeat for “Select Next Tab”.

Hey scot thanks for tips I knew few of them but now I know my safari more then ever THANK YOU
ONE REQUEST I have a very serious but funny problem, past 4 years since Apple has introduced ppc I am using mac and now m all friend calls me mac maniac, , then i bought mac book pro and later imac 2.4, MY PROBLEM is I never use to to type wwwin safari also never needed .com or .net , safari use to pick up www and .com
now somethhing happen from the day I have start using leopard I can not use this great great feature anymore, I tried hard and hard went to so many sites trying to find the answer
i dont know what is wrong when i enter any web address without putting www or .com it gives me a error page which is very funny page ( i am going to copy-paste the error message )

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OR
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MSN ®
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None — DNS Error Page

Note: In order for opt-out to work properly, you need to accept a “cookie” indicating that you have opted out of this service. If you use a program that removes cookies, you will have to repeat this opt-out process when the cookie is deleted. The cookie placed on your computer will contain the site name: “.not-found-entry.org”.

I get above message SCOTT if youcan help me please it will be a great help, the last thing i could feel may be my service provider has this feature disable
let me know what you think or i have lots of browser security software like internet cleanup, leaopard cach cleaner, spring cleaning etc, scott you think these products has something to do with this

please let me know
thank you very much

Let’s start with the technical details of what is happening, and how you can possibly fix this issue. What is going on is what I call DNS hijacking.

When you enter anything into your browser, the first thing is does is a DNS lookup. This will take for example, osxhelp.com, and translate it into a number, such as 64.84.37.54, your browser then looks for the website at that internet address. The “pretty” name of osxhelp.com is just there to make your internet usage easier, as numbers are just too hard to remember.

All this is asked of a DNS server. In most cases, unless you have set something specific, you will be asking your ISP’s DNS server to do this name to number translation.

In your case, your ISP is watching that request, and hijacking it. They say it is in effort to help, some say they just want the advertising dollars that they get from whoever they plaster on the page you end up seeing.

When you do not enter in the .com portion of a domain in safari, the first thing it does is ask your ISP’s DNS server for the IP address of that name. So if we enter in “osxhelp” with no .com, it will ask your ISP to translate that to a number.

In this case, there is no such host as “osxhelp”. A non hijacking server will send back to Safari a DNS response called NXDOMAIN, which basically says, sorry, I can not translate what you have asked.

Safari then looks at what you entered, and given that it sees the NXDOMAIN response, starts trying to fix it for you, first by adding a .com to the end, and if that does not work, it will add a http://www. to the front.

Your ISP, instead of sending back the NXDOMAIN response, decides to do something else. Any time you enter in something into your browser, and your ISP’s DNS server determines it is NXDOMAIN, it does not reply with NXDOMAIN, but instead, replies with a redirection to the “Search” page you are seeing.

In order to fix this, you have a few options. First, I would call your ISP and see if they can turn this off for you.

If not, you could locate a new ISP if it really bothers you that much.

You can also simply set the cookie they request of you, and be done with it. There is a lot of unfounded fear about cookies, and people go deleting all of them. I never do, I leave them as they are. There is nothing bad about a cookie. A cookie can only be set by the site you are visiting, and can only be read by the site that set that cookie. As long as no major flaws happen with your browser, your cookies are more or less safe.

I have a feeling it is a throwback to how many Windows users seem to cure issues by deleting cookies, and this advice has tricked down to the Mac. I am yet to have a cookie cleaning session that did anything but make me have to enter in all my username and password data all over again, as well as reset preferences on the sites I visit.

A final solution, is to use a different DNS server than your ISP, which you would change in your network preferences. It is listed as “DNS Server”, and you can change them to use a DNS server that does not hijack. OpenDNS is a free service that will help in this regard, you do not need an account, you can simply follow these steps: https://www.opendns.com/start?device=apple-osx-leopard

They will also hijack your request just as your ISP does, but if you do decide to create an account with them, you can control in a more granular way how that hijacking works. Their DNS servers tend to be speedy fast and work better than most ISP’s DNS servers as well.

Finally, you can look for free or paid public DNS services, google for “public DNS” and you should get some good hits. The steps are the same as openDNS, you just enter in a new set of IP addresses.

scott
thank you very much for such a talented answer, you clarify the issue in such a simple manner. i will be calling my service provider and get this thing done if not i will follow the guide to change my DNS
I owe you for this
regards

vic

hey Scott

is it safe to use open dns please let me know

@vic, I am not sure what you mean by “safe”, but they have hundreds of thousands of people using their service. They offer a free DNS lookup service, and for the free part of it, they are going to do the same hijacking you are trying to avoid.

I think if you open an account with them, you can control how agressive that hijacking is.

In the end, the best advice I can give you is to just opt out of your ISP’s service, and set the cookie, then stop clearing your cookies, as they are not hurting anything to have them.

if you really want to clear the cookies, you will have to set the DNS error page one time again every time you clear the cookies.

thanks scott

How can I move the tab bar to bottom? I cannot find this feature but other browsers (Opera Firefox) you just drag the bar to the bottom of the window.

@coz, I am near certain that is not a possible feature in Safari

@Scott, Well, I hope it will be considered into the next versions, the trend IE has started (prevent moving menus) is clearly not the way to go.