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20.1.2.2. Bookmarks bar The Bookmarks menu is one way to maintain a list of Web sites you visit frequently. But opening a Web page from that menu requires two mouse clicks—an exorbitant
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Bookmarks bar • Tip: The tiny at the left end of the Google bar is a pop-up menu of your most recent searches.Bonus Tip: If you Control-click (or right-click) a highlighted word or phrase on a Web page, you can choose Google Search from the shortcut menu to search for that text. And, even cooler, this trick works in all Cocoa programs— not just Safari. • Print. You can add a printer icon to Safari for point-and-click paper action if you dont want to bother with -P. • Bug. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Apple at its most humble. This insect-shaped button opens a tiny Dear Apple box, where you can tell Apple about a Safari feature or Web page that doesnt work. If you click Options, you can even send Apple a screen illustration of, for example, a screwy Web-page layout that Safari delivered.20.1.2.2. Bookmarks barThe Bookmarks menu is one way to maintain a list of Web sites you visit frequently. Butopening a Web page from that menu requires two mouse clicks—an exorbitantexpenditure of energy. The Bookmarks bar (View Bookmarks Bar), on the otherhand, lets you summon a few very favorite Web pages with only one click.Tip: If you have a bunch of bookmarks stored in another Web browser, use that browsersexport feature to save them in a file, and then use Safaris File Import Bookmarkscommand to save you the time of re-entering the bookmarks by hand.Figure 20-3 illustrates how to add buttons to, and remove them from, this toolbar.Tip: As shown in Figure 20-3, you can drag a link from a Web page onto yourBookmarks bar. But you can also drag a link directly to the desktop, where it turns intoan Internet location file. Thereafter, to launch your browser and visit the associated Webpage whenever you like, just double-click this icon.Better yet, stash a few of these iconsin your Dock or Sidebar for even easier access.20.1.3. Status BarThe Status bar at the bottom of the window tells you what Safari is doing (such asOpening page… or Done). When you point to a link without clicking, the Status baralso tells you which URL opens if you click it. For those two reasons, its a very usefulstrip, but it doesnt appear when you first run Safari. You have to summon it by choosingView Show Status Bar.20.1.4. Tips for Better SurfingSafari is filled with shortcuts and tricks for better speed and more pleasant surfing. Forexample:20.1.4.1. SnapBackThe little orange SnapBack button ( ), which sometimes appears at the right end ofthe address bar or Google search bar, takes you instantly back to the Web page whoseaddress you last typed (or whose bookmark you last clicked), or to your first Googleresults page.The point here is that, after burrowing from one link to another in pursuit of some Googleresult or Amazon listing, you can return to your starting point without having to mash theBack button over and over again. (The SnapBack button doesnt appear until youveactually clicked away from the first page you visited.)Tip: At any time, you can designate your current page as the new SnapBack page. To doso, choose History Mark Page for SnapBack (Option- -K).And you can snap backfrom the keyboard, too: Option- -P.20.1.4.2. Stifle pop-ups and pop-undersThe worlds smarmiest advertisers inundate us with pop-up and pop-under ads—nastylittle windows that appear in front of the browser window or, worse, behind it, waiting tojump out the moment you close your current window. Theyre often deceptive,masquerading as error messages or dialog boxes, and theyll do absolutely anything to getyou to click inside them.If this kind of thing is driving you crazy, choose Safari Block Pop-Up Windows, sothat a checkmark appears next to the command. Its a war out there—but at least you nowhave some ammunition.Note: This feature doesnt squelch small windows that pop up when you click a link—only windows that appear unbidden.Even unbidden windows, however, are sometimeslegitimate (and not ads)—notices of new banking features, warnings that the instructionsto use a site have changed, and so on. Safari cant tell these from ads and stifles them too.So if a site you trust says Please turn off pop-up blockers and reload this page, youknow youre probably missing out on a useful pop-up message.And one more thing:These days, the evildoers of the Internet have begun to create pop-up windows usingnonstandard programming code that Safari and other browsers cant do anything about.Fortunately, theyre still fairly rare.20.1.4.3. Impersonating Internet ExplorerSooner or later, youll run into a Web site that doesnt work in Safari. Why? When youarrive at a Web site, your browser identifies itself. Thats because many commercial Websites display a different version of the page depending on the browser youre using,thanks to differences in the way various browsers interpret Web layouts.But because youre one of the minority oddballs using Safari, your otherwise belovedWeb site tells you: Sorry, browser not supported. (Will this problem change now thatApple has released a Windows version of Safari? We can only hope.)In such times of trouble, you can make Safari impersonate any other browser, which isoften good enough to fool the picky Web site into letting you in.The key to this trick is Safaris Debug menu, which is generally hidden. You can make itappear in either of two ways: • Download TinkerTool, a free program available on the Missing CD page at www.missingmanuals.com. It offers a simple checkbox that turns on the debug menu. • Use the Terminal command defaults write com.apple.Safari Include DebugMenu 1.(Details on using Terminal in Chapter 16.) When you next open Safari, the new Debug menu appears right next to Help. Most of its commands ar ...