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CHAPTER 10 BROWSING THE WEB WITH SAFARI<br />

One other option in Safari’s preferences that has a direct impact on the use of tabs, but isn’t<br />

in the Tabs section of the preferences, is the “Open links from applications” option on the General<br />

preference tab. This option allows you to configure Safari so that when you click a link in<br />

another application it will open that link in a tab in the current Safari window, instead of opening<br />

a new window each time (if no Safari window is currently open, then of course a new<br />

window will be created).<br />

Creating New Tabs<br />

To create an empty tab in a Safari window, select New Tab from the File menu (or use Cmd+T).<br />

Otherwise, depending on you preferences, new tabs can be created when you Cmd+click a<br />

hyperlink in a web page, or when you click a link in an external application.<br />

NOTE By default in <strong>OS</strong> X, mouse button 3, which is commonly the middle mouse button (or<br />

the scroll wheel when clicked) will open up new links in a new tab as well. Some mice (e.g.,<br />

Logitech Revolution) have other default actions when you click the scroll wheel, though, so this<br />

behavior can vary both in hardware and third-party mouse drivers.<br />

Moving Tabs<br />

One new feature in Safari 3 is that ability to reorder tabs. To switch a tab’s order, just grab (click<br />

and hold) the tab and drag it around the Tab bar where you want it in relation to other tabs.<br />

Closing Tabs<br />

To close a tab, you can either click the small x circle located on any tab, or use the Close Tab<br />

menu option in the File menu (or the Cmd+W keyboard shortcut) to close the active tab.<br />

Other Tab Tricks<br />

Tabs can also be dragged out of the window they are in, into their own stand-alone browser window<br />

or into another existing window. Conversely, a window can be dragged into another<br />

window to combine them into a singe window. Finally, if you have lots of open windows, you<br />

can use the Window ➤ Merge All Windows command to merge all your windows into a single<br />

window.<br />

Downloading Content from the Web<br />

Besides browsing the Web, Safari can also easily download content that it encounters on the<br />

Web. When you click a link in Safari that leads to a file that Safari doesn’t traditionally display,<br />

Safari will automatically start to download the selected item, and the Downloads window will<br />

open up to display the download progress.<br />

NOTE Safari doesn’t support all the popular protocols used today to download files, including<br />

BitTorrent, Gnutella, and others. If you wish to utilize this type of file download, you will<br />

need to get a third-party application like Lime Wire (www.limewire.com/), Acquisition<br />

(www.acquisitionx.com), or Transmission (http://transmission.m0k.org/).

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