Safari Tab Preferences Click to see a larger image

Hopefully you are using Tabs in Safari which was discussed in this previous tip. Tabs allow you to organize multiple web pages in Safari in the same window rather than opening a new window for every web page you want to view. It is much easier to switch among tabs in one window than to switch between overlapping windows.

Once you have enabled Tabs, there are two basic ways to create tabs:

• Command-T (or File / New Tab) creates a new, blank tab.
• Command-click a link to open it in a new tab.

In the Tab Preferences, there are three more keystroke commands that a user asked me to explain. I don't have a good memory for keyboard shortcuts, so I don't use these often, but here they are all four keystrokes and what they do:

• Command-Click. Click on a link in a web page and the link will be opened in a new tab. You stay in the web page you were looking at.
• Command-Shift-Click. Click on a link in a web page and the link will be opened in a new tab. You go to the new tab, leaving the old tab intact.
• Command-Option-Click. Click on a link in a web page and the link will be opened in a new window behind the current one. You stay in the web page you were looking at.
• Command-Option-Shift-Click. Click on a link in a web page and the link will open in a new window. The web page you were looking at stays intact behind the new window.

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