Questions tagged [tabs]
A style of window management most commonly seen in web browsers, whereby multiple pages can be contained within one tabbed window.
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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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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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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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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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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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In Safari on macOS, when I close a tab, how can I get focus on the previously focused tab
The default behavior is to focus the tab to the right of the closed tab (or the tab to the left if the closed tab was the right-most tab).
How can I get focus on the previously focused tab?
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Upgraded from High Sierra to Catalina, lost my Safari session with all my open windows and tabs. Is there any way to recover them?
I had been staying on High Sierra for a long time, with Safari 13 I think, the last version that worked with High Sierra. I just upgraded to Catalina and then immediately upgraded Safari to 15.6.1. ...
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Map browser tabs to cmd+tab-able programs
I notice that running Slack / Spotify / Whatsapp etc as tabs in Chrome needs a lot less resources than running them separately in their own native Electron apps.
But when running them as tabs, what I ...
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Can one reopen a PDF in a Safari tab in the same position it was when Safari was quit?
I often read PDF documents in Safari.
Whenever I close Safari and reopen it, the PDF I'm currently reading opens on page 1 instead of where I was reading it.
This is a big issue for me and one of the ...
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Switching to the first tab in Mail using Applescript or Shell
I am looking for a way to switch to the first tab in a Mail window. It seems like there is no universal way to address tabs in macOS programmatically. I have tried Apple scripting with and without ...
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Change Cmd+Click to Click
Ideally, for a particular site, I want to change Safari's default behavior for opening a link in a new tab from CMD+Click to Click.
Acceptable if it changes behavior for all websites.
Someone ...
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Should most recently closed tabs be hidden at the top of the list?
I've been trying to effectively use the list of recently closed tabs in Safari in iOS (15.5) for quite some time now, but I never seem to recognize any of my most recently closed tabs there. I've then ...
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Safari on iOS 15.5 constantly closes all my tabs
Ever since upgrading from 15.4 to 15.5 iOS Safari closes all my tabs in my default tab group whenever it feels like it. Mostly in conjunction with opening a link from another app. Everything worked ...
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Safari disable tab group sync
How to disable tab sync in tab groups across devices?
Main tabs (not in tab groups) are local per device, and it seems strange that tabs in tab groups have different behavior. Not to mention, that ...
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I can't disable tabs in finder
I have been having this problem for a few months now. Normally, it didn't show tabs when only one tab was open. (Just like how it is in Safari) But one day, tabs appeared on Finder and they don't go ...
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Is there a way to turn off pinned tabs in Safari (Mac)?
I would like to turn off the Pinned Tabs feature in Safari on Mac (11.6.3). I thought I would like the feature, but I don't - not only does it not behave like other browsers (purposeful design ...
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Pin tab does not work in Safari, after creating tab groups
I created a tab group in Safari and added a few tabs to it.
It does not give me an option to pin a tab in the tab group.
How do I pin tabs in a tab group?
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Syncing opened Safari tab groups between devices
If I have two iPhones/iPads, should I be able to see the same Safari tab groups on both of them? Based on what I have seen online, it sounds like I should. However, it does not seem to be the case for ...
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iOS Safari open link in private tab group
When I long-touch a link in Safari on iOS, it shows a command called Open in Tab Group... but the Private tab group is nowhere to be found in the list of Tab groups.
Am I missing something or has ...
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Tab Group Confusion – How do I leave Tabs like I found them?
I'm confused about Tab Groups, the new feature of Monterey. When I go to a tab group, I'm generally going to open up the home page of a website (which is what I desire & how I set it up).
But if I ...
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Safari keeps closing newly opened tabs, re-opening the tabs that I just closed or navigates back when using with Tab Group
To illustrate the issue, think opening new tabs from Reddit's homepage for the posts that you find interesting and then Safari sometimes will just close the last tab you opened as you keep opening new ...
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Where does Safari find the files that it uses for the icons in tabs
It is very easy to find information about how to deal with problems in Safari tab icons--namely "fix the problems by clearing the icon cache." That is not what this question is about.
I have ...
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Safari can't open pages because server does not respond + problems with delayed response
For some time, I have been experiencing problems with Safari. I have faced these two issues:
When a tab is opened, and some page is loaded and I try to search for something through the search bar, ...
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Syncing tab groups in Safari Tech Preview
It seems that only Safari is sync tab groups between devices. Safari Technology Preview does not seem to share them.
Is there a trick? Was it just disabled for STP?
At worst, is there any handy one-...
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Where Safari 15 store tabs opened in groups?
"Regular" tabs (tabs not opened in groups) are stored in ~/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db but tabs opened in Tab Groups aren't there, so where are they stored?
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Does Safari 15.1 (15.1 on macOS and iOS 15.1) fix losing tabs opened in groups?
I had problems in Safari 15 (not 15.1) with tabs disappearing. Few times iPhone have different tabs opened in some groups and when it synced this group with Mac it basically overwritten what tabs I ...
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Is there a way to open tabs in the background? I don't want new tabs grabbing focus
I often like to open several folders in new tabs, but keep the focus on the parent folder I'm selecting from. My ADHD brain gets distracted by the OS auto-switching the focus to the latest new tab ...
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Always open links from other apps in "N Tabs"?
Clicking on a link in another app when Safari is open to a tab group other than "N Tabs" (that must have a name) opens a new window rather than switching the "N Tabs" and opening a ...
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Is it possible to recover my open tabs on safari ios after clearing history and website data from settings?
I stupidly tapped the 'Clear History and Website Data' option from Safari's settings on iOS, without realizing it would close my open tabs. Now I want them back. I check my other devices to see if I ...
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With Tab Groups in Safari 15, opening in new tab creates blank tab
The new Safari 15 Tab Groups are helping my browser tabs stay organized. I'm liking it.
However, more often than not, opening a link in a new tab (command + click a link, or even trying to open a ...
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Open external links in existing Safari window with tab groups
I started using tab groups in Safari on Mac but now every time I click a link in another app it opens a completely new Safari window. Is it possible to get it to use the same window?
Edit: Just to ...
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How to rearranges collapsed/pinned tabs in Safari?
I am using Safari Version 15.0, macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.
In Safari, on the left top side I can see the collapsed/pinned tabs, example:
In the previos Safari version, when I clicked one of the ...
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How do I get Safari 15 to load multiple tabs in the background?
I have a bookmarks folder that is set up to open all the bookmarks with a single click. (I think this is Automatically Replace Tabs, or ⌘-Click on the folder).
Before Safari 15 all of the tabs would ...
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The max amount of tab groups (safari 15+)
We know safari already has a max limit of 500 tabs total, and with the new iOS 15 update, the number of tabs you currently have open is nicely displayed.
However, iOS 15 also introduced tab groups, ...
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How to clear recent closed tabs on an iPhone?
On my iPhone when I press the tabs button, then hold the + button, it shows all closed tabs. For some reason it isn’t showing my recent closed tabs but old ones.
How do I clear this closed recent tabs ...
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Terminal command to force open new tab in Safari
While running the open https://www.google.com command in Terminal consecutive times, I have noticed the second time I run the command it just shows the original window of google.com instead of opening ...
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Getting rid of Terminal tabs
Until today, when I opened a new Terminal window, it had only one bar, the kind of window bar all windows have, with at the left the red/yellow/green disk-shaped buttons for close/minimize/maximize. ...
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Multiple tabs in apple notes
is there a way to open multiple notes in apple notes at the same time. It is the app I use for note taking at the moment (I keep changing but recently I've been using apple's default apps) and if I ...
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What Visual Cue Is Available To Show Safari 14.1's Tab Bar Is Scrollable?
What visual cue is available to show that Safari 14.1's tab bar is scrollable?
I understand that I can scroll it when there are too many tabs to fit. Other than trying to scroll it and looking to see ...
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Safari: shortcut to close one single tab without loading the webpage?
I always have a lot of tabs open. I would like to close them quickly, but since there are a lot of them and they are very small, I don't see the “x” that closes a single Safari tab. Looks like I need ...
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How to delete zombie Safari open tabs in iCloud synchronization?
Recently I’ve restored my iPad from an iCloud backup and now Safari open tabs synchronization doesn’t work for it anymore.
There are two devices in my iCloud: iPhone and iPad. Both of them are running ...
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Where are the tabs in Safari saved (in iCloud or Finder)?
I want to recover several links of a website I had open as tabs for quite a few months now. But once it has been reloaded today, I've been redirected to a notice page of that website (it was ...
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Big Sur Finder tab changes when focus returns to Finder
I am on Big Sur 11.2.3.
Tabs change on Finder when I return to Finder from another desktop or switch focus to it from another application on the same desktop.
Here are the steps to reproduce this
I ...
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Fixed tab-spacing for TextEdit on Mac
Is there a way to set a fixed number of spaces for a tab indent? If not, can someone recommend a program that is simple like TextEdit, but also does have fixed tab spacing?
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How to show open tabs on other devices on Mac Safari?
I want to show open tabs on other devices that share the same Apple and iCloud account, but for some reasons there is no open tab on Mac Safari when I click the top-right icon (the icon of two tabs ...
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Safari on OSX closes all tabs (crash?) after playing a YouTube video
MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Sometimes Safari (14.0.1) closes all open tabs after playing a YouTube video (most often in full-screen mode).
My typical scenario:
I have several opened tabs
I watch a youtube ...
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Safari - ignore pinned tabs when switching via cmd-number
Is there a way to ignore pinned tabs when switching via the cmd-number shortcuts, e.g. if I have two pinned tabs and press cmd+1, instead of opening the first pinned tab - open the first regular tab.
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Is there a way to make a Safari window narrower than the width of all the pinned tabs?
I use a lot of pinned tabs. So many that the width of all of them is greater than the screen width on my MacBook Pro.
On Catalina if a Safari window got larger than the screen width (typically due to ...
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Safari reuses already existing tabs instead of opening new ones
If I click a link in say an e-mail or application and that exact link already has an open tab, Safari will focus that tab instead of opening it anew at the end of the current window.
I would prefer ...
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Favicons + text for wide tabs, just text for narrow tabs
Safari 14 recently launched and started putting favicon back in the tabs, alongside the webpage's name. When you open too many tabs (as I may be wont to do...) the page name is dropped and the tab ...
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