Daniel Hruska OS X Yosemite brought some of the biggest changes to the California company's desktop system in years. The most perceived aspect is the user interface. This is now done in a simpler and lighter design. Of course, the change affected the Safari web browser, which was updated to its eighth version. Let's show you its basic options that will help you customize the look and feel of the browser to your liking.
How to view the full address
Following iOS, the full address is no longer displayed in the address bar, which can be a bit confusing when you first launch Safari. Instead of jablickar.cz/bazar/ you will only see jablickar.cz. Once you click into the address bar, the full address will be displayed.
For many, this is about making the Safari interface clearer and simpler. But then there is a group of users who need the full address for their work, and hiding it is counterproductive for them. Apple has not forgotten about these users. To view the full address, just go to Safari settings (⌘,) and in the tab Advanced check the option Show full site addresses.
How to display the page title
You are in a situation where you have only one panel open and you need to find out the name of the page that was displayed above the address bar in earlier versions. You can open a new panel to display the title of the page in the panel. However, this is a rigid solution. Safari allows you to display a row of panels even with a single panel open. From the menu Display select an option Show a row of panels or use a shortcut ⇧⌘T. Or click the button Show all panels (two squares in the upper right).
How to view panels as previews
Click on the mentioned button with two squares and that's it. Now you might be wondering if it's scratching with your right hand on your left ear when you have to do an extra push-up. With a few panels open, the preview doesn't make much sense, but with ten or more, it can. The previews are mainly used for faster orientation in the confusion of panels. Both thumbnails of open pages and their names above each preview help with this.
How to move an application window
Such a mundane thing as grabbing a window and moving it can be more difficult with Safari 8. The header with the name of the page as such has disappeared and there is nothing else to do but use the area around the icons and the address bar. It may happen that you will have more icons and there will be almost nowhere to click. Fortunately, Safari allows you to add a flexible gap between them. Right-click on the address bar and icons and select an option Edit Toolbar… You can then use the mouse to arrange the individual elements and possibly add a flexible gap that will ensure a sufficient amount of free space.
How to display the Favorite Pages panel
Although at first glance it looks as if Apple is trying to hide Safari's functionality, it actually adds some. Similar to iOS, it is displayed after opening a new panel (⌘T) or new windows (⌘N) to display favorite items. To do this, you must have a tab in the Safari settings In general for items Open in a new window: a Open in a new panel: selected option Favourite. A reduced version also appears after clicking in the address bar (⌘L).
How to display a row of favorite pages
Apple tried to fit as many functions as possible into the new address bar. After clicking into it, as described in the previous paragraph, you can immediately see your favorite and most frequently visited pages. However, if for whatever reason you want your favorites bar back, there's no easier way than from the menu Display select Show a row of favorite pages or press ⇧⌘B.
How to choose a default search engine
The option to choose the default search engine was also available in previous versions of Safari, but it does not hurt to remember it. The default search engine is Google, but Yahoo, Bing and DuckDuckGo are also available. To change, go to browser settings and where in the tab Search select one of the mentioned search engines.
How to open an incognito window
Until now, anonymous browsing in Safari has been handled in an "either-or" style. This means that all windows went into incognito mode when incognito browsing was turned on. It was not possible to have one window in normal mode and the other in incognito mode. Just from the menu File select New incognito window or use a shortcut ⇧⌘N. You can recognize an anonymous window by the dark address bar.
I don't have Yosemite yet, but tell me - can Safari finally switch tabs (Cmd + Tab) in the order they were last opened? Or always just from left to right, regardless of when they were opened. I really miss this functionality in the previous Safari, or at least I haven't figured out how to set it up yet. Thanks
Still the same without change….
I just like this way more. I usually open several pages and then go gradually from the one on the right and I don't have chaos in it, and then the order can be rearranged. Tribute suits everyone differently.
Does Safari finally show the progress of loading a page on a tab that is not active?
For example, I will upload a large file on one tab, open a new one and want to see when the file was uploaded and not have to constantly check whether the upload has finished. Thank you
i don't know i tried safari on yosemite but nothing much .. i was going back to chrome very fast ..
So I tried that too, gave it a chance for about a fortnight, but reverted back to Chrome. In my opinion, it is disjointed, unfinished. For example. When you view the bookmarks row, you see the favicon of each saved page. When you view your favorite bookmarks in the sidebar, there is no favicon. The site inspector is unusable, at least for me. At the moment, when you make a website, it cannot be used. It doesn't have chrome. Or for example, you have favorite bookmarks in the top bar, you click on a folder and its contents expand, you move the mouse to a subfolder and it does not open. You have to double click. Close the current folder once, open a new folder once. Searching in tabs by folder name is also not possible (but it is not possible in Chrome either). Well, it's possible that it's faster than Chrome. I don't know. anyway, it would be nice to sync bookmarks with Chrome, directly on the system without Xmarks. Oh, and displaying all windows at once, I'll probably never use that.
Just wanted to ask if anyone knows how to get the favicon in the bookmarks sidebar.
I would like advice on something, sometimes I can download a file, e.g. the java update does it for me and it starts as if in a window in the address bar, but then i can't find the file... anyone have experience with this?
Not in the Downloads folder?
i installed adblock plus and it seems to slow down safari a lot and i still get a lot of pages skipping and popping up and opening….
then, is there any plugin/extension or setting so that Safari displays icons on the page panels
was showing icons for favorite pages, I only show up in the folder and from…
some similar plugin like Linkification was in Firefox, which made all urls highlighted and it was enough to click on it and the page opened
and I would also like something that would open the last closed page or display a picture, does anyone have these gadgets? thanks in advance
Does anyone know what happened to ClickTo Flash?
I had to turn it off. Totally unusable!
Tip 9, don't use CMD+F to search for the root of a word, Safari has a bug (someone please confirm it's not just me) that if you search for a root like "pple" it won't find it on a page that contains apple, but if you type Apple will find :)
it didn't find anything for me either, but isn't it more that it can only do whole words?
just click on that magnifier and switch it.. ;) I looked it up now and found it there.. :)
Great, thanks :)
Otherwise, in that case, I don't understand why a bug report has been open for a month, which they could have closed with this solution (it's not just mine), I'm closing mine :)
I KNOW IT DOESN'T BELONG HERE, BUT HOW CAN THE MOBILE DISPLAY BE TURNED OFF PERMANENTLY IN IOS
Don't you rather need advice on how to turn off CAPS LOCK?
FOOLISH MOONS
I KNOW VERY WELL IT CAN'T
SAFARI IS THE CRETAN GOLD OF IE
Hello, after installing os Yosemite and turning on safari, it does not start. I have to turn off the wifi and turn the wifi back on and then it works. Don't know what to do with it?
Now I discovered the shrinking of panels (with the fact that after that the "shortcut" appears in all windows. Quite a novelty for me. I don't know if it was in previous versions, anyway in such an article it could appear :)
pinning panels that is :D