Safari - Tips

Things to know about Safari in Leopard: Please note this information is for general purposes only. At this time, ITCS does not support Mail or iCal.
Set your default browser Open Safari and go to Safari>Preferences, and then click General. Choose Safari, FireFox or Netscape from the Default Web Browser pop-up menu. Safari will display what you have installed.
Set your home page Open Safari and go to Safari>Preferences, and then click General. You can type the address into the Home page field or click on the button that says "Set to Current Page" if that page is already open.
Customize the Safari Window • Go to View>Customize Toolbar. Drag buttons to the address bar to add them. Drag buttons off the toolbar to remove them. • To quickly rearrange the toolbar or the bookmarks bar, hold down the Command key and drag an item to a new location, or drag it out to remove it. • Resizing a window causes the toolbar bar buttons to become hidden as the toolbar shrinks. You can set which buttons disappear last by Control-clicking them and choosing Keep Item Visible.
Block pop-up windows Go to Safari menu and choose "Block Pop-Up Windows." This same menu is a toggle switch. If there is a check mark beside it, it means the blocker is on. If there is no check mark, the blocker is off. You turn it off/on by selecting it.
Bookmarks • The Bookmarks menu is what drops down from the menu bar over your browser window. • The Bookmarks Bar is the strip in the browser window just below the address field. To hide/show it, go to View>Show Bookmarks Bar. • The shortcut to add a bookmark is Command+D. • You can drag a link to the Bookmarks Bar to save it there for easy access. • To organize bookmarks, click on the bookmarks button at the far left of the Bookmarks Bar or go to Bookmarks>Show All Bookmarks menu. Apple goes into more detail here.
Enter a new web address quickly: • Double-click between www and .com. Safari will select just the stuff in between so you can change it. • Don't worry about typing http://. Safari knows if it's a .com address to fill in the rest. Ex: just type in "apple" and hit Return.
Find phrases or words on the current page fast • Press Command-F then start typing. Safari will start searching, highlighting every instance it finds of what you typed. • To maneuver through the results, press Command+G. Every time you hit Command+G, Safari will put a yellow highlight on the next result. • Safari will hold onto the search you saved whether you close it or quit it when you hit Command+G. So the next time you open Safari, Command+G will find those results.
SnapBacks • See the little orange arrows in the either the location field or the Google search field? These indicate SnapBack pages. When you click on that arrow, you return to the original results page. • You can mark any page you want as a SnapBack page: go to History and choose "Mark Page for SnapBack." Any time you leave that page, the arrow will appear in the location field and you can click it to automatically return to that page without having to re-type the address.
Enlarge or Reduce text • Make text bigger with Command+ • Make text smaller with Command- (Nothing has to be selected.)	vs
Tabbed Browsing • Instead of losing your original page, use tabs to open several pages at once. • To open a page as a tab: Command-click (right-click) the link and select Open link in new tab. • If tabs aren't available, go to Safari>Preferences>Tabs. Turn on the options you need.
View PDF documents • Just drag the PDF right into the middle of any Safari web page. • Right-click (control-click) on the PDF in Safari to use other tools related to the PDF.
Make a widget! You can make a widget out of any section of a web page. All buttons, fields or links that are captured in that widget will still work. Open a page in Safari. Click the Web Clip Widget button in the toolbar. A clear box will appear. Drag it to the area you want to capture. Use the eight handles around the edges to resize it. When ready, click on the "Add" button in the upper-right corner. Dashboard will immediately open and display the new widget. Click the "i" in the bottom corner to add custom borders. If deleted, you'll have to recreate the widget from scratch. Uses: capture ECU's quick link on the main page, sports results, a wikipedia search window, etc.
Private Browsing Use this if you are using a computer that other people share, like a library or a lab. When its turned on, the following happens: Information you typed on a page is not saved. Searches will not be added to the Google pop-up menu. Web pages will not appear in the History. Any downloaded items are automatically removed from the Download window. Cookies are automatically deleted when you quit Safari. To turn on or off, go to the Safari>Private Browsing. Once you quit Safari, Private Browsing will automatically turn off. Note: To further secure your privacy, choose "Reset Safari..." in that same menu. You'll eliminate any traces of your being there. However, it resets everything, not just what you did that day.
RSS Feeds These are summaries and headlines. They come mostly from newsgroups as well as personal blogs. Safari lets you add feeds, delete them and organize them. They can be separated into your own folders so you can view the ones you want for a particular subject. To see your current feeds: Go to Bookmarks>Show All Bookmarks On the left of the new window, go to Collections. Click once on All RSS feeds. Any website that you have bookmarked that has a feed will display on the right. If an RSS feed appears in more than one location, it's listed multiple times. The Parent column displays the folder that the RSS feed is in. Double-click on a feed to see it. • If Safari can find the RSS feed for the site you're viewing, an RSS button appears in the address bar. Click it to view that feed. • To organize feeds, go to Bookmarks>Show All Bookmarks. • To display a feed as a screen saver, go to Apple's instructions.
Safari is integrated with: • Address Book(not supported by ITCS at this time) - Put your address book into the Bookmarks bar and Safari will go to the website of any contact listed in it. • Mail (not supported by ITCS at this time) - Can email a web page or link. RSS feeds will also show up. Note: This feature only works with Mail. Entourage does not support this. • TextEdit - Links in a TextEdit page will open in what ever is set as the default browser. • iCal(not supported by ITCS at this time) - Web addresses in events open in Safari if set as the default web browser. • Dock - Drag the tiny icon that you see to the left of a web address to the Dock and you can create a web location.