As one last stop before the review scheduled for tomorrow, I have to share one quick Safari tip with you, related to the Bookmarks Bar. Here's the scenario - you open one site, then another, maybe even a third one, and then you want to open a few others from the Bookmarks Bar, but remaining in the current tab. Got it?


The idea is to keep the current tab active, while opening new ones. Normally, if you have opened a certain number of tabs, when you click on a site in the Bookmarks Bar, the site opens in the current tab, closing the one you were watching already. Today, I will show you how to keep the current site around, while opening additional ones in the background, all with just the touch of a key!

Here's the golden trick - while you click on the site in the Bookmarks Bar, hold the Ctrl key pressed! That's all, and I must confess this is quite a time saver for me. I hope it's going to serve you well, too!

Since we started with quick site access in Safari yesterday, I thought today is a good day to continue following the same line. How? Obviously, by providing you with a list of keyboard shortcuts that may prove useful in many situations, helping you to spare even more time!


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Okie-dokie, so let's see where should we start. Looking up, we see the address bar...so we'll start from there.

1. To highlight the text in the address bar, simply press Ctrl+L. That should help you avoid clicking there first. Once you have done that, you can copy and paste the current link in an instant, or type a new address(Alt+D has the same effect).

2. When it comes to tabbed browsing, Ctrl+T allows you to open a new tab.

3. If you want to close a tab, use Ctrl+W to accomplish this task.

4. To bring up the Downloads window, press Ctrl+Alt+L.

5. If you want to adjust text size, use Ctrl++ or Ctrl+-, as we all do in most browsers...

6. To move between open tabs, use Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab.

7. To check the items loaded by each site you are navigating, you can use the Activity window, accessible via the Ctrl+Alt+A shortcut.

8. To find text in a page, you should use the good old Ctrl+F shortcut.

9. If you want to use the Search Bar, simply press Ctrl+K. Easier than clicking and then moving to the keyboard to type again, don't you think?

10. To save the current page, use the notorious Ctrl+S shortcut, but beware that Safari can only save as HTML, so no MHT archives here!

This is it, I hope you will find the above useful, but feel free to let me know what I missed, because I am sure there are plenty of Safari keyboard shortcuts left...

Paving the way for the upcoming Safari review here, on SoftDistrict, I thought some tips and tricks would go just fine until then, and I will start by showing you how to quickly access your bookmarks in Safari. I will use the Windows version, since Safari's last version works simply great, and if you're using a Mac, my humble opinion is that Camino is a better browser. Anyway, let's get going, shall we?

First, let's add a new bookmark to the Bookmarks Bar, because those are the bookmarks ready to be accessed with the speed of light.

- Once the site you want to bookmark has loaded, press Ctrl+D, or open the Bookmarks menu and use the option there, as you can see in the screenshot below.



- Change the name of the new bookmark, if you want, and then press Add. Just be sure to add it to the Bookmarks Bar.



Now, we have the bookmark where it should be. For quick access, we're going to use a keyboard shortcut, and to know what shortcut you should use, simply look at the image below.



As you can see, this is the same as in Opera - Ctrl+1..9, and even the limit is the same, 9 sites available for quick access. If you send more sites to the Bookmarks Bar, only the first 9, from left to right, will be available via the keyboard.

That's all for today, I hope you enjoyed this small Safari lesson, but stay tuned for more in the near future, and prepare for the review(subscribing to our news by email would be a good idea, if you missed that so far;)).