Apple this week jumped into the Windows Web browser world with Safari 3.0, available to download in beta form from apple.com/safari. Beloved by Mac users for its speed (but begrudged for incompatibilities with certain websites and features, including the inability to use those handy pop-up section navigations buttons on this site itself, for instance), Safari for Windows test-drivers will find some things old, some things new. Here are five tips to help you get started.
-- Joe Hutsko";
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Two types of tab tricks
Web browsers use the word tab in two ways. The first means the ability to open new web sites or additional pages of one you’re browsing in a tabbed window that lines up neatly with other tabs rather than opening a new window to clutter your desktop.
Type Ctrl \+ t to open a new, blank tab in Safari. To open a new tab from a link on a web page, right click on the link and choose “Open Link in New Tab.” Or simply hold down the Ctrl key and click the link. To open a new tabbed page without making it the front most window, hold down Ctrl \+ Shift together and then click the link.
The second meaning of the word tab is the use of the keyboard’s Tab key. Unlike Windows browsers (hallelujah!), pressing the Tab key in Safari moves the cursor from fields you can type in, such as a shipping address form, rather than to every possible page item (like buttons or pictures). If you actually prefer the latter, go to Edit / Preferences / Advanced and check the box next to “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage.”";
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Snap out of it with SnapBack
Ever go to a web site with one thing in mind, then wind up clicking on something that distracts you from what you came for in the first place? A handy Safari featured called Snapback can snap you out of your temporary distraction and put you back on track. It becomes active the moment you navigate from any page you navigate via the address bar, or by telling Safari you want to make a page your SnapBack point.
Starting at JOEyGADGET.com and clicking a link to leave the main page, for instance, automatically pops the little orange SnapBack icon into the end of the URL address field. Click it to jump back to the page where you started. You can also click the History menu and choose “Mark Page for SnapBack” to set the current page for SnapBack, and choose “Page SnapBack” to the page if you find yourself wondering “Why-did-I-come-here-again?”
SnapBack also works in Safari’s search field. The SnapBack icon appears in the search field as soon as you click on a search results link. Forgot what you were searching for? Click the snapback icon and you’ll instantly boing back to the initial search results page.";
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Secret agent, man
A powerful feature called Private Browsing make it Safari’s business to keep your personal business exactly that – private. Activate “Private Browsing...” from the Edit menu before you go to your banking or web email site (or wherever else you want to go without prying eyes finding out), go about your personal business, and when you’re done select “Private Browsing...” again to deactivate the feature. Voilą! - all traces of your virtual footprints from start to finish are erased, while other saved information (such previous sites you visited before activating private browsing) remain intact.
Another way to wipe your Safari web browsing slate clean is to choose “Reset Safari...” from the Edit menu. Check or uncheck the boxes to suit your private matters needs, then click Reset to flush Safari’s memory of those items you’d prefer to keep off the record.";
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Fabulous finds
When it comes to finding specific words on an open web page, Safari beats the other browsers hands down.
Here’s how it use it: Type Ctrl \+ f to bring up the webpage search box (below and to the right of the bookmarks bar). Type in the word or words you’re looking for, and Safari dims the page while at the same time marking the first instance of what you seek in bright, impossible-to-miss orange highlighter. All additional occasions of the word (or partial word or phrase) are also highlighted in white, making them easy to spot on the page. Press Ctrl \+ g repeatedly to go from one hit to the next.";
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Spelling and shortcuts
As a notoriously bad speller, I rely heavily on my Mac’s built-in, system-wide spell checker. The same spell check feature is bundled into Safari for Windows – with one caveat: It doesn’t work yet. An Apple spokesman says it’s coming very soon. Okay, two caveats: It doesn’t catch typos in other programs, only those as you type when filling out forms or writing web-based emails in Safari. Once its activated in an upcoming Safari beta update, activate it by going to Edit / Spelling / Check spelling While Typing.
Lastly, here are some handy keyboard shortcuts to speed up your Safari experience:
Jump to the Safari search field: Ctrl \+ Alt \+ f
Open all bookmarks nested in a folder in the bookmarks bar: Ctrl \+ click the folder (for instance, all four of your web-based email services at once; or the six news sites filed in a single book mark folder that you open every morning over your first cup of joe)
Jump to the URL address field: Ctrl \+ l
Increase, decrease and reset page text size: Ctrl \+ “\+”, Ctrl \+ “-”, and Ctrl – “0”, respectively
Mark page for SnapBack: Ctrl \+ Alt \+ k
Return to SnapBack page: Ctrl \+ Alt \+ P "; // END editorial data