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Enter the address for the new page or choose a bookmark.
Click a tab to view the page it contains.
To change the order of the tabs in a window, click a tab’s handle and drag it to its new location.
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Tip: Don’t Stop Now
If you’re in a hurry, you’ll appreciate knowing the quickest way to open a web page in a separate tab: Press while you click the Back or Forward arrows or as you click a link.
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Note: Not the Only One
Cool as it is, tabbed browsing isn’t unique to Safari. Apple uses the concept elsewhere, such as in iChat (it’s great for managing multiple conversations), and other web browsers, including Firefox, Opera, and Camino, support it as well.
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To turn multiple open windows into tabs in a single window, choose Window, Merge All Windows.
Choose Bookmarks, Add Bookmarks for These Tabs to add a bookmark set that contains a bookmark for each tab in a window.
Click the X next to its name to close a tab.
Click the Close button at the top of the window to close the window and all its tabs.
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Tip: Tab, Window; Window, Tab
Drag a tab to the desktop to transfer its contents into a new window. To create a new tab from an open window, click the URL and drag it to the New Tab button (at the right end of the tab bar) in that open window or another one.
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Searching Within a Web Page
Sure, Spotlight finds anything on your computer, and Google finds anything on the Web (and pretty much anywhere else), but sometimes you’ve gotten to the right web page and you still can’t find what you want. That’s when it comes in handy to be able to search through the text on the page itself.
Choose Edit, Find, Find, or press .
Type the word for which you want to search.
Click the arrow buttons to highlight each instance of the search term.
Click Done to hide the Find banner.
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Note: It Counts!
Note that when it finds your search terms on the page, Safari also tells you how many matches it found. This is a great way to get a quick count of, for example, the number of employees named “Paula” in a company directory.
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Browsing Securely
Not a week goes by that we don’t hear about another frightening case of identity theft or data theft in the news. One way to protect yourself is to make sure that no one else can see where you’ve been on the Web and what you did there. To accomplish this feat, Safari features Private Browsing.
Choose Safari, Private Browsing.
Click OK to turn on Private Browsing.
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Tip: Keeping It Really Safe
If you’re concerned about online safety, you can take more precautions. Choose Safari, Preferences and click Security to see a range of options for disabling features like JavaScript, managing cookies, and turning on high-end encryption so that if intercepted, your personal information still can’t be deciphered. Of course, some websites won’t work if you turn on the strongest security options—life is all about trade-offs.
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Tip: Catch You Later
You’ve stumbled across an interesting web page, but you don’t have time to read it now? No problem—just click the + to the left of the page’s URL to add it to your reading list. Then, when you have time to read, choose View, Show Reading List to see a list of everything you’ve saved for later.
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Accessing Your Mac Remotely
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just grab a file from your home Mac while you’re at the office? You know right where the file is, if you could only.... With Lion, you can connect to any Mac that’s logged in to MobileMe with your username and password and control it just as though you were sitting in front of it. Here’s how.
Choose Apple menu, System Preferences.
In System Preferences, click the MobileMe button to view preferences for MobileMe.
Click Back To My Mac.
Click Turn on Back To My Mac.
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Note: I Gotta Be Me
For Back To My Mac to work, both Macs must have your MobileMe member name and password entered on the