If you use a Mac, then you well know by now
that keyboard
shortcuts are an essential component to mastering OS X.
Nowhere is this more true than Safari, where keyboard shortcuts make
quick work of many routine web browsing tasks.
Safari actually has quite a few keyboard
shortcuts that you may know about, as well as quita a few you may not know
about. Today we want to talk about some of our favorites.
Navigating Webpages
When you’re on a website and you don’t want to
use your mouse or trackpad, the keyboard offers a number of shortcuts.
- Use the arrow keys to scroll up, down, left, and right. If you’re scrolling through a long webpage, you can press Option+Up/Down Arrow to scroll more quickly.
- To scroll down a screen use the Page Down key or the Spacebar.
- To scroll up, simply use Page Up or Shift+Spacebar.
- To scroll all the way down to the bottom-left corner of a page (as in all the way to the end), press Command+Down Arrow.
- To go up to the top-left corner? Use Command+Up Arrow.
- Tab highlights the next field.
- Option+Tab highlights the same thing as well as all other clickable items.
You can swap the behavior of those
last two shortcuts by clicking “Press Tab to highlight each item on a
webpage” in the Advanced tab of the Safari preferences.
Opening Pages in Tabs
Opening pages in new tabs is a great way to
make sure you don’t miss anything. Just open everything you want to read
(eventually) and go at it.
- To open a new tab, press Command+T.
- To move from tab to tab (assuming you have several open) use Command+Shift+Left/Right Arrow.
- To close the current tab use Command+W.
- To reopen it, use Command+Z.
- There are a couple of ways to affect multiple tabs as well.
- To close all open tabs except one, hold the Option button and click the close button (X) on the tab you want to leave open or use Command+Option+W.
- To open all the tabs in a folder in your Favorites, hold the Command key and click the folder.
- To open an item in a new tab, you could right-click and select “Open in a new tab” from the resulting context menu. You can eliminate a step by holding the Command key and clicking a link, bookmark, or hiting the Return key from the Smart Search field.
In the previous examples, if you use those
keyboard shortcuts to open tabs, they’ll open in the background. To open a
page in a new tab and bring it to the front for the same items (link, bookmark,
Smart Search), prepend those shortcuts by adding the Shift key.
For example, Shift+Command+Click.
Lastly, if you have more than one tab
open, then you can use the keyboard to navigate through them.
- Use Control+Tab or Command+] to bring the next tab to the front.
- Use Shift+Control+Tab or Shift+Command+[ to bring the previous tab to the front.
- If you have up to nine tabs open, you can use Command+1 through 9 to select the desired tab.
You’ll be a tab master in no time.
Reading List and Bookmarks Shortcuts
Let’s move on to the Reading List and your
Bookmarks. The Reading List lets you save offline copies of webpages for later
reading where you might not have reliable Internet access, such as on a plane
or in rural areas. Bookmarks are a big part of any web browser. While we don’t
necessarily bookmark every page we come across, or even as many as we used to,
we still have favorites we visit daily or regularly, so keyboard shortcuts can
come in handy.
- To add the current page to your reading list, use Shift+Command+D.
- To add a linked page, Shift+Click the link. To remove a page, swipe left on the item and click remove, or use right-click and select “Remove Item” from the context menu list.
- To bookmark a site, use Command+D.
- The Favorites bar is that row of bookmarks that runs along the top. To quickly show or hide that bar, use Command+Shift+B.
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