Section 64. SnapBack to the First Page of a Site


64. SnapBack to the First Page of a Site

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

61 Keep Track of Websites with Bookmarks


SEE ALSO

65 Remove a Cookie


Safari has a feature that is absent from other browsers: SnapBack . This feature allows you to navigate websites more efficiently by letting you jump instantly to the entry point of any site, lifting you out of the site's inner pages.

KEY TERM

SnapBack A Safari feature that returns the user to the entry point of a website, regardless of how far into the siteor subsequently linked sitesthe user has wandered.


When you visit a bookmark or enter a web address manually, Safari "marks for SnapBack" the page where you arrive at the site. This means that no matter how many subsequent pages you visit by clicking links found on the siteeven if those links take you to entirely different sitesyou can always find your way immediately back to the first page where you were taken by the bookmark or the manually entered address, simply by clicking the orange SnapBack icon in the Address bar.

The Google search box in the upper-right corner of the Safari screen makes use of the SnapBack feature as well. If you use the box to do a Google search, you can prowl through the sites that Google returns, looking for what you want. When you decide that the site you've been looking in doesn't have what you're after, simply click the SnapBack icon to return to the page of Google results.

1.
Enter a Web Address or Click a Bookmark

Type a web address (URL) into the Address bar and press Return ; alternatively, select any bookmark to travel directly to a favorite site.

64. SnapBack to the First Page of a Site


2.
Navigate the Site

Click links within the site to move from page to page. As soon as you browse to a new page, the orange SnapBack icon appears in the Address bar to signify that you can now use the SnapBack feature to return to the original page.

3.
Click the SnapBack Icon

Click the orange SnapBack icon in the Address bar, and you are taken back to the first page you visited.

NOTE

Safari immediately jumps back to the entry point as cached in its own history; you can then navigate either forward or backward through the pages in the browser's history.

4.
Mark a Page for SnapBack

You can manually define any page as the destination point for when you click the SnapBack icon. If you find yourself at a site that you know you want to return to, choose Mark Page for SnapBack from the Safari History menu. You can then surf the links in the site and return immediately to the starting page using the SnapBack icon.

When you mark a new page for SnapBack, the orange SnapBack icon disappears, meaning that the page you're currently on is where you will SnapBack to. Click on a link, and the icon will again appear.



MAC OS X Tiger in a Snap
Mac OS X Tiger in a Snap
ISBN: 0672327066
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 212
Authors: Brian Tiemann

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