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You can organize your Web surfing and reduce clutter by using tabs in the Safari Web browser. Tabs enable you to open multiple Web sites within the same browser window. This prevents you from having to open multiple windows to accommodate multiple Web sites.
After you activate tabbed browsing in Safari, you can use tabs much as you would use the Open in New Window menu command in any other Web browser.
Each tab can display its own Web page. You can also open links in new tabs by using the tab keyboard shortcuts.
Each tab, like each window in nontabbed browsers, displays the title of the Web page within it. A tab also lets you know when it has completed the download of the Web page associated with it. Then, when you are finished reading the Web page shown within a tab, you can close it by clicking the tab’s Close icon.
Did You Know? | You can quickly close all the tabs in a Safari window by pressing z+Option+W. All tabs immediately close, leaving the enclosing window intact. |
Customize It! | By Control+clicking a tab, you can access a few hidden tab features. The contextual menu that appears when you click permits you to reload or close a specific tab. It also lets you close all other tabs besides the current one. |