Questions tagged [safari]
Safari is Apple's web browser. This tag is for Safari in macOS. For Safari on iOS, use the mobile-safari tag, and for Safari in Windows, use the safari-windows tag.
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How to remove the favicons in Safari tabs?
Since quite a long time now, there have been icons representative to the website, favicons, next the the webpage title in the tabs, in Safari.
I am looking for a way to disable this feature, I have ...
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How to reorder the bookmarks on the home page, including the folders in Safari?
How to reorder the bookmarks on the home page, including the folders in Safari? The sort-by is not shown in the main list of bookmarks.
I can reorder the bookmarks in a folder but not on the main page....
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Is is possible to delete recently closed tabs without deleting Safari history?
I want to clear my recently closed tabs but I still want to keep my Safari history. To open my recently closed tabs, I need to long press the "+" button and then it appears.
This answer ...
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Prevent user from inadvertantly shifting app window on IPad display
I'm using an iPad in a public kiosk situation running a lighting control software using Safari or Google Chrome browser. Guided Access on the iPad is enabled and a mask created to block access to some ...
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How do I remove items from the reader panel in safari
NO, all REMOVE button does is to turn a dropdown OFF.
I want to remove all them.
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Safari and only Safari missing from Spotlight / Finder search
As per the title, on macOS Ventura, Spotlight works flawlessly ... except that Safari, nestled in Applications as always, is missing. "saf ..." "safari" "safari.app" — ...
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iOS 16.1.2 Deleting data and browsing history does not work for Safari
Where other than in Safari settings can I delete the browsing history auto-complete function. Clearing browsing history, data, and closing tabs doesn't work.
My search engine is set to “duckduckgo”. ...
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URLbar still selected after loading page on Safari on Catalina
I am using Safari with Vimari on my macOS Catalina. Problem is whenever I am navigating to some url by pressing designated key(provided by Vimari) after pressing F, the URL bar still stays focused ...
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How to translate Facebook pages (including posts)? Chrome's built-in feature does not work
Is there a way to translate Facebook pages on Chrome/any other browser?
I'm not talking about the Facebook built-in Bing translation on individual posts, but the entire page. Things I tried that didn'...
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No images appear when visiting netflix.com using Safari under macOS
Somewhat recently I have been having issues with Netflix.com while using my MacBook Pro (15" 2018). I currently have macOS Monterey 12.6.3 with Safari 16.3. The problem has been happening for ...
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Safari on my 2007 iMac running snow leopard gives me an error that it can’t establish a secure connection to the server (XXXX.com) [duplicate]
I have a 2007 iMac and was recently formatted to give to a friend. It was working perfectly before this and always updated as far as it could go. When formatted I installed snow leopard. When ...
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Can't connect new Macbook Pro browser to Internet
Browsing through WiFi to Internet worked perfect at my work location. At home now my Safari almost always shows "You Are Not Connected to the Internet" Sometimes it shows a page (eg. Yahoo....
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Pinned tabs in tab groups scroll out of view
In all of my Safari tab groups other than the default one, pinned tabs scroll out of view rather than staying visible. This pretty much renders them useless sine they just behave like the left most ...
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Creating a PDF File from some specific data in HTML Tags in a website in Safari
I have the following task that I need to automate as much as possible:
Grab Page Source from currently open site in Safari. This is a site whose HTML structure is fixed, but specific data (such as ...
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What's different between Command N or T on Safari?
On Safari, when I type Command + N or Command + T, both shortcuts do same thing: Create a new tab and move to it.
What's the difference?
When should I use Command + N and Command + T?
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Force Safari to enable autoplay
Since last update (Ventura 13.1), my Safari does not seem to autoplay videos anymore.
I already tried to "allow all autoplay" or to disable all content blockers, but I still can't enable ...
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How to autofill id & password on safari without clicking?
How to make the id & password automatically filled without click to fill?
When I use Chrome, Chrome autofill id & password so I can just click the Login button.
but on Safari, I have to select ...
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Safari Develop menu not responding
I've enabled Develop menu but when I click it, it takes around 1.5 minutes to open.
This behavior was not happening at the beginning but started after a while, presumably around the time I inspected ...
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Safari can't save the file. Safari can't save the file "file.jpg" to the downloads folder
Safari on macOS suddenly cannot save common image files on any website. It instead shows the error:
Safari can't save the file.
Safari can't save the file "file.jpg" to the downloads folder....
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How does Safari (desktop and mobile) know I have a Google account, even in private mode?
While browsing in Safari (Private Mode as well as non-private), I recently saw multiple times some new overlay/modal that offers me to quickly create an account with that respective page using the &...
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"Start Speaking" not working on macOS with Google Docs
I like to have my Mac read things to me using the build in reader. I can do this by highlighting text and then going to Edit > Speech > Start Speaking or right clicking and going to Speech > ...
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How to detect HTML redirection
I have a script that opens a random pick from a local list of over a thousand URIs on a particular website. I haven't changed the script, but today, every time, I get a page that is not on the list ...
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How can I prevent Safari (and other apps) from quitting? [duplicate]
Often times I will try to quit (for example) Slack, but accidentally quit Safari, and thus lose the arrangement of my millions 😜 of Safari windows. (This can happen if Safari is the top-most app, ...
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This item is temporarily unavailable please try again later
I am trying to install an OS on my Mac computer, but keep getting the item is unavailable message after I enter my apple id and click install. So I was told I needed to go into safari and log into ...
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Safari not working after migration on MacBook Air 2015
Recently migrated from one MacBook Air to another (both 2015). Safari error message: "You can't use this version of the application "Safari.App" with this version of OS X. You have OS ...
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Forced re-login to any Stack Exchange site on Safari after running Apple News
I'm on an old Mac Pro with Safari. Both are now out of date [macOS 10.14 & Safari 14], but this has been happening for years, since both were still current - I've just patiently put up with it.
I ...
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What is the multitab button on safari in IOS? How do I select it?
I was reading this question on stack overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59675450/keyboard-doesnt-show-up-when-selecting-input-on-ios-only from a few years back, where the poster says
The ...
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Google search page sometimes disappeared when clicking Safari's back button
I'm using Safari 16.3 (17614.4.6.11.4, 17614) on macOS Monterey 12.6.3 (21G419) but this problem has been around for many years and Mac systems.
Sometimes I go to Safari browser, open a new window and ...
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Enabling 120 fps on mobile Safari
I just recently discovered that you can enable 120 fps animation on macOS Safari by following these steps:
In Safari, go to Preferences > Advanced and check Show Develop in menu bar
Develop > ...
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How do I change the LAYOUT of safari favourites
I have a MBP.
When I open safari in the fav. view, I have 6 columns and I don't know how many rows of icons
As my screen is in landscape and not in portrait orientation it would make sense if I would ...
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How to edit the end of the current page's URL in Safari on iOS?
In Safari on iOS, imagine I am on the page at this url:
https://www.example.com/long-long-url/very-long/very-long-path/page-1
How can I quickly navigate to
https://www.example.com/long-long-url/very-...
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Safari Export as PDF - crop / tile / posterize long PDF to multi pages
When I save a webpage with Safari's > File > Export as PDF...
Safari renders a long PDF in several (long) pages.
Here a screenshot of Preview's Crop Inspector, 200 inch seems to be the height ...
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Cmd + T to open new tab position are unpredictable
Issue:
As written on the title of the question.
(Edit: Tabs sometimes open on the last position and sometimes open right next to current tab.)
Expectation:
New tab always open either next to current ...
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Reopening last opening last closed tab in tab group closes itself after it reopens in Safari
When using tab groups, ⌘ Command⇧ ShiftT reopens the last tab closed and then it disappears immediately and is gone from the history. This behavior also happens in Menu bar → History → Reopen Last ...
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Safari unexpectedly quit - my first ~20 tabs are gone
Safari just quit on me out of nowhere when I wasn't looking.
When I opened Safari again, apart from my first 4 pinned tabs, the next few tabs (in the region of 10-20 of them) are not there any more. ...
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How to extract Safari .webarchive file to folder, from command line?
Safari offers the .webarchive format to download a webpage, together with embedded resources (images, etc). As described/linked in answers to How do I turn a Safari Webarchive file into a folder?, ...
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Video recorded in android cannot play in apple devices Using HTML Video tag
Video screen is black using HTML Video tag
I am trying records the video from any device and saving in aws server using java script and HTML video tag, and trying to play recorded video in any Device
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How can I delete history for specifc matching rows in Safari
I want to delete specific site results from history of Safari.
Here I can see the results from History => Show All History:
When I select all rows (cmd-a) and apply delete it deletes one-by-one ...
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Show in Finder occasionally stops working
I have a recurring problem with Finder. If I click a folder from my "Favourites" bar in Finder, and then press cmd+up, instead of taking me to the parent folder, it takes me to the very top ...
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Background image for Safari on Mac?
On my iPhone I can add a custom image for new tabs in Safari.
How do I accomplish the same thing for Safari on my Mac? I have tried plugins (like Momentum) but I don't want to have to pay for such a ...
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Limit Safari (or any other browser's) volume level [duplicate]
Is there a plugin or app or system extension that allows you to limit how loud app's volume level can get? Specifically Safari or any other browser's volume?
The problem is there is a lot of ...
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How can I open with Safari an html file in dropbox on my iOS device
I have a simple html file with all my links that I share between all my devices.
I can see and open the file from within the Dropbox application but cannot seem to figure out, how to open it from ...
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Facebook starting behaving weirdly in Safari
For the past three or four days, Facebook will behave reasonably for a few seconds and then will start bouncing all around, maybe a dozen bounces in six or seven seconds. seconds. I hypothesized that ...
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Make style only apply on URLs that start with a string
In Safari > Advanced > Style sheet I can add my own custom stylesheet to Safari.
How can I write some styles that should only be applied on certain websites, based on the first part of the URL?
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Cache stored from session in Safari
I have spent the entire day writing a draft in Gmail on macOS Safari. Just after closing the browser, I checked my phone. I started writing the draft on my iPhone earlier today, and a version from ...
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AppleScript : use variable to call safari tab
how can I refer to a safari tab using a variable ?
this code find the tab I want across all safari windows and tabs
set winmatchlist to {}
set tabmatchlist to {}
set tabnamematchlist to {}
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Safari iCloud tab sync leaves a "phantom tab"
Mac (13.1) Safari tab sync popup accurately reflects the tabs on my iPhone (iOS 16.2) BUT always displays (brings back) the same phantom tab I visited a few months ago and haven't revisited. No amount ...
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Safari is not able to download any files
Whenever I want to download a file in Safari I get the following message:
Safari could not download the file XYZ because the disk “Harddisk” doesn’t have enough free space.
I do have enough space on ...
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Entirely prevent specific apps from starting [closed]
I have a certain issue with my Mac, which is that in certain situations, "standard" system apps are started. For example, clicking on any link in MS Office will fire up Safari, which I never ...
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Can't block Safari sites via Terminal /etc/hosts file
I usually block Safari sites via Terminal on my Mac with
sudo nano /etc/hosts command adding websites like 127.0.0.1 www.site.com.
That works for like 99% of the pages, but right now I am trying to ...
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