Open new windows in tabs with Safari
Dec 9, 2010 - 4 Comments
You can set Safari to always open new windows into new tabs, this is a really nice feature that helps keep your web browsing tidy.
- Open Safari Preferences under the “Safari” menu
- Click on the “Tabs” icon
- Next to “Open pages in tabs instead of windows” select “Always” from the pulldown menu
- Close Safari Preferences
Now anytime a new window is created it will instead go to a new tab in the currently active containing window. This works in the Mac OS X version of Safari and probably the Windows version too.
You should mention that this catches pop-ups too which is helpful when you have one of those annoying Flash popups that runs in the background and heats your Mac up to 250° while rocketing the CPU to the moon.
I don’t understand why this isn’t default, it’s always one of the first things I change!
Okay, it is nice, but if I want to open just one page in a window what I should do??
Well, I auto answer me
With cmd + alt + click (on the link) it will open a window behind the active one
With cmd + alt + click + Shift (on the link) it will open a window over the active one