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Safari is Apple's web browser. This tag is for Safari in macOS. For Safari on iOS, use the mobile-safari tag, and for Safari in Windows, use the safari-windows tag.

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Safari is a web browser designed by Apple. It was first released in January 2003 for Mac OS 10.2.

This tag is for questions relating solely to Safari on macOS. For Safari in Windows, use , and for Safari in iOS, use .

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See website visit time in Safari history

I'm trying to figure out how to determine the time websites were visited in the Safari history. (I can't imagine why this isn't easy to do like in every other browser I've ever used). NOTE: I'm running Safari 9.0.3 and El Capitan 10.11.3. I've done…
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How do I get Safari to always display the tab bar?

When you first open Safari and only have one page (one tab), the tab bar is not shown. When you open your second tab (e.g. by center-clicking a link to open it in a new tab), the tab bar then appears, which makes the content of the original page…
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How can I copy a Google search URL from Safari?

When I google for images of "apple sauce" (without the quotes), Safari's location bar just displays "apple sauce" (without the quotes) rather than the URL leading to Google searching for apple sauce images. I want to send someone the search URL. How…
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How do I disable Safari's Show All Tabs gesture?

Safari's Show All Tabs view is pretty useless, it only shows one tab at a time and is fairly easy to trigger with an accidental pinch gesture. How do I turn it off (as least for the pinch gesture)?
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CMD-Z reopens last tab instead of undoing

This is unbelievably annoying, since when I code online, there is no means of undoing, and thus retrieving the text I deleted.
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Is there an option to show the real url when you do search on Safari 6?

Safari 6 integrated an address bar and a search box together. So when you want to search a keyword, you just type into the address box. That's maybe good. Before, when you type something in the old search box, you were seeing a url that contains…
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Reset Safari from command line

I accidentally navigated to one of those sites that pops up a dialog telling me that my computer is infected. Upon clicking the OK button, that dialog reappears, ad infinitum. I cannot close the tab or otherwise interact with Safari while the dialog…
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Is it possible to export safari's reading list on Safari 5.1?

Subject sums it up. Just curious if there is a trick to be able to export your reading list from Safari, any format. Where on the HD is the info stored? bookmarks.plist?
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Safari: Any way to initiate pinch-to-zoom without trackpad?

Command + (Zoom in) and Command - (Zoom out) are different from pinch-to-zoom on a trackpad. The former changes the layout of the page, whereas the latter just enlarges the page as if a magnifier was used. Is there any way to initiate pinch-to-zoom…
Damn Vegetables
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Edit URL in address bar when title matches in Safari

In Safari 6.1, under Mac OS 10.8, if I type a text in the address bar that matches the title of a page I have previously visited, that page is listed below. I select it and would then like to slightly edit the related URL. Instead, it only lets me…
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How to completely disable password saving in Safari?

Safari keeps asking if I want to save passwords whenever I submit a login form. Is there any way to disable this password saving feature completely?
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Download all linked files at once from a website in Safari

I have build a Web Frontend for my own Server to share files with my co-workers. They can upload images and animation-videos there. Now, if a co-worker has uploaded many files, it would be nice to download all of them all at once. So I have a…
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Display protocol in Safari address bar

Currently Safari shows the url of the open page without mentioning the protocol: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask Is there a way to have Safari show the protocol in the address bar: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
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How do I disable images in Safari 6.0?

In Safari 6.0 the 'Appearance' tab from 'Preferences' was omitted. How can I now switch “Display images when the page opens” on/off ?
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Is there a way to copy the link URL in Safari (Mac OS X) without using right click?

In Safari, if you want to copy the link URL, you should do 3 operations: Hover the link Right-click the link Use the "Copy link" item from the main/contextual menu Alternatively, you can hover/navigate to the link and then select the link…
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