Safari is Apple's web browser. Please specify in your question if you are using it under Windows, since it is more popular under OS X.
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Better tabs management in Safari
I would really like to move from Firefox to Safari. However there is a problem: "I have too many useful extensions in Firefox." :)
Especially what is important for me is the management of the tabs. ...
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iPad can't seem to view sites / pages that include the port in the URL?
I've found that the iPad, using its Safari browser can't access web pages that include a port number in the URL:
http://www.example.com:8080/
or even
http://www.example.com:80/
In either case, the ...
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Safari doesn't always restore state after quitting and reopening in 10.8
I'm not sure if it started after I upgraded to 10.8, but Safari doesn't always restore windows anymore. I think it mostly happens when Safari has been open for some time (or has been used), but not ...
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MP4 object: 10.8 webkit browsers “Missing Plug-in”, other browsers display video via QuickTime
My organization's web site uses object tags to display MP4 video files. Here's an example:
<object width="494" height="388" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" ...
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Safari - menu to show live tabs open in open windows
I often have 5 or 6 safari (and chrome) windows open each containing several tabs. I often lose track of where a live tab is when i want to return to it.
I can use the safari window menu option from ...
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What determines a local file's MIME type?
When a local file is opened in Safari or -- more important to my situation -- a custom application that uses a WebView for display, what decides on the MIME type to associate with the resulting file ...
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How do I jump to a line number in Safari 6 Web Inspector?
So I'm working on some javascript and I want to set a breakpoint on the line that I'm working on. It seems reasonable that I should be able to go into the Javascript debugger and jump to that line ...
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Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server www.google.com
If I try to navigate to any of the following pages:
http://google.com/reader
https://encrypted.google.com/
I get an error message in Safari saying:
Safari can't open the page ...
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How do I find hidden UIScrollView settings in Safari and Lion?
The question (and answer) Can you disable rubber-band scrolling in OS X Lion? is very useful, so I would like to learn how to find these settings.
How can I find out what these variables are so I can ...
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How can I prevent Safari from removing first words of tabs' titles?
Safari has a feature which removes duplicate first words of page titles form tabs, which is useful when sites' pages all begin with the same word or two. "Site Title | Page title 1" and "Site Title | ...
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Web Inspector in Safari 5.1 (Lion) not logging request when not open
Is there any way to revert Web Inspector in Safari 5.1 to the old behaviour that if I have developer tools enabled, all Ajax/XHR, image, css etc requests are logged and when I open Web Inspector, they ...
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Is there a way to improve the quality of the cached images Safari uses for forward/back swiping?
I know I'm crazy, but it's bugging me.
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Does the javascript debugger in Safari have the ability to de-minify javascript like chrome does?
In the Chrome debugger under the "Sources" tab, there is a little "{}" button at the bottom that will de-minify minified code and make it human readable, as well as allow the developer to set ...
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Tabs opening in a minimised safari window, not the active one
I’m often using multiple windows in Safari minimizing the windows I’m not working in. However, when I click on a link i.e. in Mail it opens it not in the active window but in the minimized one instead ...
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Switch Twitter Accounts in Safari?
There's add-ons for Firefox to do this, switching twitter accounts without having to sign-in 3-5 times a day is really time saving if you have more than 2 accounts, CookieSwap do the job, is there any ...
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How can I sync history of Safari?
Question is in the header. I know that Google Chrome stores his history in sqlite database, and there's impossible to sync Chrome's history. Can I do this with Safari? I didn't find this option.
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Bookmarks and history always disappear in Safari 6.0.2/Mountain Lion
I can not save new Bookmarks in Safari 6.0.2. The History also disappears when I quit. Both will be there if minimized but disappear after shutting down or quitting Safari. Other suggestions have ...
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Safari reader reads only one paragraph
How to enable Reader to read the next paragraph? Is it impossible to read the next one paragraph on the same web page with reader?
The sample page I'm trying to read ...
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Safari always asks me to install the newest version of Java
I need to run an applet that requires the latest version of Java. Whenever I try to run that applet, it asks me if I want to install Java. So it sends me to the Java site and I download it. Then I ...
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How to enable logged-in thumbnails for Safari Top Sites for Secure (HTTPS) Sites?
How do I allow Safari to generate logged-in thumbnails of HTTPS pages? Maybe there's a hidden setting for this?
Right now thumbnails of secure (HTTPS) pages are rendered without login data. For ...
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Safari auto correction jumps
For a pretty long time I have the problem that the auto correction in Safari doesn't always work as it should. So it often happens that I write a word, and on pressing the spacebar it replaces the ...
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Various applications are not redrawing areas of their screen (glitchy graphics)
There are a few applications that consistently show graphic glitches. I think it started happening on a recent Mac OS X update.
I have:
Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Intel HD Graphics 288 MB (can switch ...
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iPad : how to set up to browse a private wireless network, not connected to the net, using only IP addresses?
I have a private wireless network setup that is not connected to the internet. There are only industrial controllers on this network and an iPad running an app that will control these systems. There ...
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Using Safari to list all contents of a folder/path
Is there a way I can use Safari to list the contents of a folder? More like of an "index" page where you get to see the files and sub-folders inside a path/folder. Like this one:
When I use Chrome, I ...
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Facebook Photo Verification on iPad's Safari
I work with a social media company and recently experienced something very vexing at a live event.
We have visitors sign in temporarily on iPad kiosks for registration purposes to their Facebook ...
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How to fix the single page scroll option using Magic Mouse when viewing a PDF in Safari on Mountain Lion?
I don't know if this is just happening to me - I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
when I open PDF documents in Safari, I use the single page scroll option, so that with a short scroll down the Magic Mouse, ...
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Troubleshooting for flash or iLife related beachballs or system hangs?
My wife and I share her iMac, using two separate user accounts. My account is used almost exclusively for browsing the web. My wife's account hosts a large iTunes library, our iPhoto libraries ...
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Restore Safari Java Applet Placeholders
By default Safari has Java disabled, but places a “plugin content” placeholder or something similar where the Java Applet would be. However, if you enabled Java and then disable it again Safari no ...
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Printing from Safari cuts lines on page breaks
When I print from safari on 10.6 and 10.7 sometimes the top half of the line is printed on one page and the bottom half is printed on the next. This seems to be independent of the printer as the pdf ...
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What does this Safari-related “system.log” message mean?
I keep seeing these log messages in my "system.log" on my OS X 10.5 machine.
Within 1 to 12 minutes after connecting to my ISP I see these messages appear:
Jan 1 11:20:11 206 Safari[105]: Safari ...
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How do I make Safari, Chrome, Mail, and other applications all use different SOCKS proxies
How do I make different applications like Safari, Chrome, and Mail all use different SOCKS proxies.
FireFox has it's own proxy settings, but Safari, Chrome, and presumably Mail all use the system ...
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Closing Safari quickly — without Webpage Preview Fetcher?
For the past few months, attempting to close Safari normally (Command-Q) quickly closes open browser windows, but takes forever (~10+ min) to fully close, if it closes at all.
A look at the Activity ...
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Mac OS X Hebrew UI breaking Safari?
I've changed my MacBook UI to use hebrew in 10.7.3, but since then Safari refuses to upload files. Whenever I have a form with a file upload and I click "submit", the page reloads without submitting.
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Auto Join networks on Os X Lion - auto fill password problem
When I connect to my Uni's networks (which require me to enter my username and password) Os X Lion displays an "auto-join" window looking like this:
Unfortunately auto fill appears not to work in ...
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Disable read/unread status of items in Reading list
I use reading list as a place to store temporary bookmarks, instead of the intended use of it as a place to store things that are to be read later on. The read/unread behaviour is rather annoying ...
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Apple screen gets scrambled randomly
Recently I upgraded to Lion, since doing this upgrade I am now getting a bug with Safari where the browser window "scrambles". By this, I mean that the entire window breaks up into rectangular blocks ...
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Lion seems to have made both Safari and Chrome pause when opening more tabs
I recently upgraded to Lion and am mostly very pleased. However I'm having some errant behaviour when CMD clicking on links in Safari and Chrome. Instead of opening the page in a new tab, often ...
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Disappearing error message and Safari windows
When I close my laptop I have it set to automatically log me off. I closed my laptop while I still had some Safari browser windows open along with my iTunes.
When i opened it, I logged back on. I ...
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Stop Safari developer program membership
Does anyone know how to stop Safari developer program membership?
A couple of years ago I enrolled into the program as I was interested in development of Safari extensions. But now I have a really ...
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IPad won't play YouTube in background
When I play youtube then go to a different app, the video stops. This is normal, but what isn't is when I bring up the multitask bar by hitting the home button twice, then hitting play, and it doesn't ...
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Disable Safari's bookmark caching
I need to somehow disable Safari's bookmark caching.
When I visit a page of a lecturer of mine that I've bookmarked before for easy access, Safari shows me the cached version it has; not the fresh ...
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Identifying broken extension? (Safari quit missing)
I'm running into a problem where on occasion Safari starts misbehaving.
The symptoms are tabs stop having the quit icon appear on hover, and can only be closed by hitting command-w. At the same ...
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Safari saves PDF as .pdf.jpeg because of faulty mimeType
When I try to open a PDF link by clicking on it, Safari saves it as filename.pdf.jpeg, then tries to open it in Preview, and claims that the file is broken.
I checked the requests to see what's ...
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Safari: Glims plugin: Changed my Tab key behavior
This is a part of my google workflow: Cmd+L, type query, hit Enter, press Tab, hit Enter, this opens the first result.
Once I installed Glims, the Tab key now starts to select the tabs rather than ...
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iPhone won't play music from safari through external speakers when on silent
My iPhone 4S won't play music through the external speakers when my phone is on silent, and this problem is only restricted to safari - it works for other apps, even the google app when I tried ...
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How do I remove items from the Safari Develop>Open Page With menu
My menu contains probably 40+ items. Most of them Windoze apps from my Parallels partition. I cannot find where these are stored so I can trim it.
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Preventing google search for custom top-level domain
How can I prevent safari to redirect the user to the google search page for addresses with custom top-level domains?
Given an address of the type http://application.test where test is a primary zone ...
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Safari keeps opening mailto links in Gmail in a new tab
I am trying out different mail clients on my MacBook Pro and have settled now with Sparrow. However Safari now keeps handling mailto links in the browser. If I click on a mailto link it just opens a ...
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Graphical issues with Safari?
Sometimes during browsing the internet or typing stuff (even here), some blocks of the page disappear and overlap each other. They sometimes overlap the text im typing or text in articles im reading, ...
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Safari 6.0.2 not displaying images
Safari 6.0.2 on iMac will not load certain images in a web store I am visiting. The images used to load in Safari 5 and still load just fine in Safari on my iPad and iPhone. Any thoughts?
