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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How to regain features from Safari 5 that are not found in Safari 6?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion, there are a lot of differences in Safari 6.
Have the four features below been relocated?
If not relocated, are there fixes?
Activity window (previously: Window -> ...
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How do you remove Safari 6 on Mac OS X 10.7.4
I understand there was a uninstaller for Safari 6 beta (is that available anywhere?) but it seems no longer available in the Apple Dev Center, and I am on Safari 6 release version.
I need to remove ...
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How to mimic Safari 5 Activity window with Mountain Lion, to save FLV video files?
With Safari 5 in Lion, I used the Activity window to save video files.
Safari 6 has no Activity window.
With Mountain Lion, what is the best way to replicate what I could do before?
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How to fix Safari 6 on Mountain Lion that doesn't show the full URL in the address bar unless I click it?
For instance, Ask Question page URL on this site is shown as apple.stackexchange.com, but when I focus on address bar, it becomes apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask.
I tried resetting and ...
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How can I disable “Top Sites” in Safari/Webkit completely?
First of all, I need to clarify: I do not mean turn off the viewing of top sites in the browser, or the switch for it. I've done that. However, even after the recent 5.0.3 update, Safari constantly ...
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Fading of the URL in Safari 6's Unified Search and URL Field
With Safari 6, the omnibar fades the non-server part of the URL, so that the actual server name is more visible. Presumably, this is to reduce phishing attacks.
However, I find that the remainder of ...
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How can I boot to Safari Only (Chromebook style) in Lion?
How can I boot safari only in Mac OSX Lion Chrome OS style? I heard that there was a key that one had to hold at startup, which one is it?
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How to disable Acrobat Reader in Safari?
In Safari, the default PDF-Viewer in Safari is "Preview".
Unfortunately, since I installed the Acrobat Reader, this default changed to the Acrobat Reader, which is extremely annoying.
How can I ...
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Is it possible to upload files to a website from Safari on iPhone?
I'm trying to upload a photo from my iPhone 4 to a website. However, the browse button to display the select file dialog is disabled. Normally this works fine on my Windows PC. Should I be able to ...
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Why do emoji like 💩 appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome?
Why do emoji like 💩 appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome on the same MacBook running Lion? Both browsers use WebKit, and I'd imagine font support comes from the OS, not the application.
For ...
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How can I get Safari to reopen my last closed tab?
I'm switching back to Safari from Chrome. Now that I figured out how to get Safari to let me navigate tabs the way I want, only one thing remains: I want to be able to reopen my last closed tab with ...
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How do I disable Safari-only mode?
I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for ...
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How can I set a default zoom level in Safari?
I've got a Mac Mini that I'm using as a Home Theatre PC, and my only real complaint is that I can't set a default zoom level in Safari. It's hard to read all that tiny text from 7 feet away from my TV ...
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List the extensions installed in Safari for Mac OS X, and state whether each one is enabled
I'd like a list, from which text can be copied.
(Not a screenshot of preferences.)
This information does not appear in any of the following:
Safari
System Profiler in Snow Leopard
System ...
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Can I cmd-F and click a highlighted link in Safari (or something similar) without a mouse?
I'm trying to make my Mac as mouseless and possible. My three last big hurdles:
Moving the current window to a different space in Spaces. (I'm still on OS 10.6, until 10.8 comes out.)
A more ...
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Why is this bar appearing in Safari?
Sometimes, when I try using a special character (⌥+U for ¨) a strange bar will appear at the bottom of my screen. This doesn't happen every time, just on and off for no apparent reason. I haven't ...
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The browser doesn't show videos on Youtube
Today I noticed that Safari doesn't show anymore the videos shown on Youtube; I just see a black rectangle, and when I try to use the popup menu in that area, it doesn't appear.
As far as I can ...
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Copying web page content in Safari to HTML
Is there an easier way to copy and paste website content in HTML?
What I want to copy looks like this:
Product Information:
Length: S / M / L
Material: Polyester and Elasthane
Brand: Roxana ...
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Is there any way to stop the auto-reloading tabs in Safari 5.1
In Safari 5.1 older tabs will auto-reload after being flushed. This has to be the wonkiest, most unproductive "features". I can't imagine this being done for memory usage reasons as I have plenty to ...
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Keywurl for Safari 5.1 / Lion
Has anyone made Keywurl work with Safari 5.1 after their Lion upgrade?
I tried updating the MaxBundleVersion without luck:
http://hacketal.com/making-keywurl-work-with-safari-5
I'm not interested ...
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Is there an option to show the real url when you do search on Safari 6?
Safari 6 integrated an address bar and a search box together. So when you want to search a keyword, you just type into the address box. That's maybe good.
Before, when you type something in the old ...
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How can I copy a Google search URL from Safari?
When I google for images of "apple sauce" (without the quotes), Safari's location bar just displays "apple sauce" (without the quotes) rather than the URL leading to Google searching for apple sauce ...
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How can I make Safari show the URL when I hover over a link?
Safari doesn't seem to have any status bar in which the URL of a link shows when the user moves the cursor over a link (without clicking) All other browsers I've ever used do this. Is there a user ...
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How do I truly flush Safari's Cache?
There have been countless times where I run into a problem after I edit HTML on a Mac. The issue derives from me uploading the updated file to my server through FTP, and I'll navigate to the website ...
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Safari 6: How to change default fonts?
This is probably a duplicate. I can't imagine I'm the first person to notice this.
It seems that Safari 6 has removed the appearance tab from the preferences, and with it, the ability to change the ...
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How do I disable inline PDFs in Safari 5.1?
Today, Apple updated Safari to 5.1 (6534.50).
In Safari 5.0 or below it's very easy to disable opening pdfs inline, you simply say
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES
and ...
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Is it possible to restart an application using AppleScript?
I want to restart Safari and reopen it with some tabs that I specify.
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Safari doesn't remember tabs in Mountain Lion
In Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Safari preserved the state of my tabs when it closed. This functionality seems to have disappeared in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there a way to restore (no pun intended) this ...
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Does Mobile Safari have an image file size limit?
I'm developing a website which contains, by its nature, very large images. When testing on an iPad, I'm noticing that any image on the page larger than 2MB is not showing up, just showing the dreaded ...
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Change search Google in Safari to use Firefox
Cmd+Shift+L searches for the selected text in Google using Safari. Can I change this to use Firefox instead?
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How to stop Safari from unzipping files after download
Safari unzips .zip and .gz files after downloading. How can I stop this behavior?
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Can I combine the address bar and the Google search bar in Safari?
The only reason I am using Chrome over Safari is the cool feature Chrome has namely the address bar acts as the search bar as well. Is there a way I can enable this feature in safari as well?
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Safari 6: Open and close tabs with middle click?
On Lion I installed an extension which game me the ability to use middle click to open and close tabs, and I used Better Touch Tool (BTT) to use a 3 finger tap to act as a middle click.
Since using ...
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List the extensions *enabled* in Safari for Mac OS X [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
List the extensions installed in Safari for Mac OS X, and state whether each one is enabled
I'd like a list, from which text can be copied.
(Not a screenshot of ...
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What does it mean when a %CPU exceeds (# of cores) x 100%?
Several responses to a question I asked earlier suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, ...
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How to make Safari remember zoom level per site?
Safari's default font size is not large enough for my eyes so I have to press ⌘++ for a while on every website I visit. I could've used CSS to set the default zoom level in Safari but I want different ...
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How can I add a new search engine to Safari without any 3rd party add-ons?
I know add-ons such as Glims can do this, but I would rather stay away from them. Any native (or more likely semi-native) way to do so? If it matters, the engine I would like to add is duckduckgo.
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How to make iCloud on Windows sync bookmarks with Safari, not Internet Explorer
I'm trying to get iCloud on my PC to sync its bookmarks with Safari, not Internet Explorer.
According to Apple's documentation, it is possible to sync iCloud bookmarks to Safari on Windows:
You ...
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How to clear browser cache for just one specific site in Mobile Safari?
I'm doing some testing on a mobile site in development and there are many updates and changes happening to this site. In order to test afresh and clear any JavaScript or what-not that is held in the ...
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How to force coloured display of visited links in Safari 5+?
Relatively recently most browsers, including Safari disabled the colouring of visited hyperlinks for privacy concerns.
I do not give a damn about this type of privacy and I consider that this is a ...
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Why can't I browse the internet with Safari, but Chrome is working?
I can't browse to any website using Safari yet Google Chrome is working fine. The Mac App Store also reports that it cannot connect.
Running OSX 10.7.2 on a 2011 MacBook Pro.
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Saving a Safari page as a PNG image
Is there some way in Safari, possibly via a third-party extension, to save the running contents of a Web page as a PNG image?
I understand I could print the page to PDF and use Preview to export it ...
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How to completely disable password saving in Safari?
Safari keeps asking if I want to save passwords whenever I submit a login form.
Is there any way to disable this password saving feature completely?
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Safari does not restore tabs / not Resuming
It seems my Safari is not resuming correctly.
I open some tabs, then quit and when fire up Safari again it's opened like wasn't have any tabs opened before.
Is it some version bug, or i should look ...
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Are there any differences, feature-wise, between Safari for Mac and Safari for Windows?
I know that Chrome for Windows and Chrome for Mac are extremely similar. So similar that I only notice one difference for the Mac version: the green + button doesn't maximize. However, that can be ...
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Determine cpu usage in safari tab
Is it possible to somehow determine which of my safari tabs has the most cpu usage?
NOTE: I haven't turned on any flash (i'm using a "plugin customs" extension) in my tabs so it's really hard to ...
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How can I fix broken font-rendering in Safari?
On some sites (especially this one) I cannot read certain parts, there are only A's displayed.
How can I fix this?
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How can I get Safari 5.1 to show the download window?
I know that I can simply click the downloads icon next to the search bar, however I'm visually impaired and have trouble using the mouse (I can't find it, miss click), therefore I'm much faster with ...
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How can I reactivate the fn + arrow buttons that changed in Safari 5.1?
Safari 5.1 (Snow Leopard) seems to have disabled the combination of fn + arrow buttons for navigation (page up, page down, top, bottom). I know the same can be achieved with option + top, down and ...
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Safari 6 freezing
I've recently upgraded to Safari 6 in Lion and I'm seeing some pages freeze: I cannot scroll down and sometimes cannot click on anything. Safari is still alive and working but the freeze cannot be ...
