Full Screen For Safari Mac
Full Screen Mode, Safari Once Safari opens, you’re ready for your first full-screen experience. Click the icon in the upper-right corner of the Safari window. With a smooth animation, - Selection from Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual Book.
- Take any window that can be expanded on the Mac and hover your mouse near any of the four.
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures in Safari on Mac. Here are shortcuts you can use, in addition to those that appear in Safari menus. Open Safari for me. Exit full-screen view. Download a linked file. Option-click a link to the file.
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Here are shortcuts you can use, in addition to those that appear in Safari menus.
Webpages
Action | Shortcut or gesture |
|---|---|
Scroll up, down, left, or right | Press the arrow keys. |
Scroll in larger increments | Press Option while you press an arrow key. |
Scroll down a screen | Page Down Space bar |
Scroll up a screen | Page Up Shift–Space bar |
Scroll to the top-left or bottom-left corner of the page | Command–Up Arrow or Home Command–Down Arrow or End |
Highlight the next item on a webpage | Tab highlights the next text field or pop-up menu. Tab also highlights buttons and other controls if “Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls” is selected in the Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard pane of System Preferences. Option-Tab highlights the same items as Tab plus all other clickable items. To swap the behavior of Tab and Option-Tab, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage” in the Advanced pane of Safari preferences. |
Show all tabs | Shift-Command- |
Open a page in a new tab | Command-click a link Command-click a bookmark Command-Return after typing in the Smart Search field. |
Open a page in a new tab, and make that tab the active tab | Shift-Command-click a link Shift-Command-click a bookmark Shift-Command-Return after typing in the Smart Search field. |
Make the next tab the active tab | Control-Tab or Shift-Command-] |
Make the previous tab the active tab | Control-Shift-Tab or Shift-Command -[ |
Select one of your first nine tabs | Command-1 to Command-9 |
Close all tabs except for one | Option-click the Close button on the tab you want to leave open |
Reopen the last tab or window you closed | Shift-Command-T |
See a list of your recently visited pages by name | Hold down the Back or Forward button until the list appears |
See a list of your recently visited pages by web address (URL) | Press Option and hold down the Back or Forward button until the list appears |
Go to your homepage | Command-Home key |
While typing in the Smart Search field, restore the current webpage address | Esc |
Close Reader | Esc |
Exit full-screen view | Esc |
Download a linked file | Option-click a link to the file |
Open a downloaded file | Double-click the file in the downloads list |
Zoom website content | Press Command-Plus Sign (+) or Command-Minus Sign (-) |
Zoom website text | Press Option while you choose View > Make Text Bigger or View > Make Text Smaller |
Reading List
Action | Shortcut or gesture |
|---|---|
Show or Hide the Reading List sidebar | Control-Command-2 |
Add the current page | Shift-Command-D |
Add a linked page | Shift-click a link to the page |
Remove a page | Control-click the page summary in the sidebar, then choose Remove Item. You can also swipe left over the page summary, then click Remove. Or, swipe all the way to the left until the page summary disappears. |
Bookmarks
Action | Shortcut or gesture |
|---|---|
Add a bookmark to the Favorites bar | Click the Smart Search field to show the page’s full address and its icon, then drag the icon to the Favorites bar |
Open all bookmarks from a folder in the Favorites bar | Command-click the folder in the Favorites bar |
Move a bookmark on the Favorites bar | Drag the bookmark left or right |
Remove a bookmark from the Favorites bar | Drag the bookmark off the top of the bar |
Bookmarks sidebar and bookmarks view
Action | Shortcut or gesture |
|---|---|
Show or Hide the Bookmarks sidebar | Control-Command-1 |
Select bookmarks and folders in the sidebar | Command-click each bookmark and folder Shift-click to extend the selection |
Select the next bookmark or folder | Up Arrow or Down Arrow |
Open the selected bookmark | Space bar |
Open the selected folder | Space bar or Right Arrow |
Close the selected folder | Space bar or Left Arrow |
Change the name or address of a bookmark | Select the bookmark, then press Return You can also force click the bookmark |
Cancel editing a bookmark name in the sidebar | Esc |
Finish editing a bookmark name | Return |
Create a folder containing the selected bookmarks and folders in bookmarks view | Option-click the New Folder button near the top-right corner |
Delete a bookmark | Control-click the bookmark, then choose Delete |
This article explains how you can fully reset Safari on your Mac. You might need to do this if Safari on your Mac runs very slowly, crashes often, acts bizarre, or functions incorrectly.
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Safari is included with the macOS operating system.
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How to reset Safari
1-Remove site history
There are two ways to do this. If you want to remove particular web sites (e.g., a web site is giving you problems whenever you visit) then try the second option. Please also note that if you are using other Apple devices (iOS devices or other Macs), if you turn on Safari in iCloud preferences with the same Apple ID, your site browsing history will be removed from all of them.
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When you do this, you will be removing history of web sites you visited, recent searchers, list of download items, frequently visited sites list, web sites that asked to use your located and to send you notifications.
Option # 1
- Open Safari
- Click Safari located in the menu bar in the top left hand corner of your screen
- Click Clear History
- You can choose different time period options: last hour, today, today and yesterday, all history. Select one.
- Click the Clear History button
Option # 1
- Open Safari
- Click Safari located in the menu bar in the top left hand corner of your screen
- Click Preferences
- Click the Privacy tab
- Click the manage Website Data button
- Here you can remove everything, or you can remove specific web sites. You can also search to find a specific web site.
2-Clear web caches
Here is how you can clear Safari’s caches. Caches are images and videos, or the layouts for entire web pages you browsed.
- In the Safari app, click Safari
- Click Preferences
- Click the Advanced tab
- Check the ‘Show Develop menu in menu bar’ box.
- Close the Preferences window
- Now you will see a new menu bar item called ‘Develop’
- Click Develop
- Select Empty Caches from this menu
Disable Safari extensions
Extensions are small programs that extends your Safari’s functionalities. They add new features to let you enhance and customize your browsing experience. But some may have bugs and thus cause problems. And you may want to turn them off. Here is how:
- Choose Safari from the Safari menu bar
- Click Preferences
- Click the Extensions tab
- For each extension, you can use the checkbox to enable or disable that particular extension.
- You can also uninstall extensions.
Disable Safari plugins
Please note that Safari is no longer supporting most plugins. You can however view and manage the plugins you have installed. Here is how:
Open Safari In Full Screen
- Click Safari
- Click Preferences
- Click the Websites tab
- From the list on the left, use the checkbox to enable and disable the plugin. Select the checkbox to the left of the plug-in name if you want to enable it.
- When you are done, close the window
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