MAKE MORE OF SAFARI’S FEATURES
01 WEBSITE SETTINGS
Safari 11 lets you apply different settings to how particular sites are presented. You can add a prominent reminder that this is possible: Choose ‘View > Customise Toolbar’ and drag the Website Preferences button onto the toolbar.
02 TAB MANAGEMENT
There are several ways to enter the tabs overview: choose ‘View > Show All Tabs’, press ‘Cmd-Shift- \ ’, click the overlapping squares in the toolbar, or pinch two fingers on a trackpad. Only tabs in the current window are shown.
03 SEARCH THE TAB OVERVIEW
It can be tricky to pinpoint a tab in the overview if many are open. Press ‘Cmd-F’ to reveal a search bar at the top right, which will find page titles, including titles of tabs open on your other devices (see bit.ly/icloudtabs).
04 GATHER ALL TABS
The search bar doesn’t look at pages’ addresses or contents, and it looks at tabs only in the current window, not others. Depending on how organised you like things to be, ‘Window > Merge All Windows’ can help here.
05 SEARCH THE HISTORY
The tab overview’s search bar doesn’t check contents or addresses, but the History feature’s bar does! Choose ‘History > Show All History’, press ‘Cmd-F’, then type. Click column headers to sort by title, visit date or address.
06 MUTE FROM THE KEYBOARD
It’s useful to be able to mute Safari with two simple keyboard shortcuts. You’ll need one for Mute This Tab, such as ‘Ctrl-M’, and two for Mute Other Tab and Mute Other Tabs (note the plural) — we suggest using ‘Alt-M’ for both.
07 TAKE CARE WITH AUTOFILL
Be cautious with AutoFill; avoid using ‘Edit > AutoFill Form’ reflexively, as pages may extract more than is explicitly shown. Try out AutoFill
at bit.ly/afexample to see what shady sites can acquire without your knowledge.
08 CUSTOMISE AUTOFILL
It’s safer to disable AutoFill in ‘Safari > Preferences’ and take time to check what forms request: click in a field, then click the silhouette to the right and pick Customise. Click info and choose ‘Do not fill’ to prevent its submission.