Use Safari’s Smart Search Field
Safari’s Smart Search field is an address field and a search field, with features that make it easy to customize your web browsing. In the Smart Search field, enter the URL of a web page you want to visit, or enter a keyword or phrase to launch a search. If you’re entering a search, Safari will offer up suggestions that you can select by scrolling down and pressing Return. Select the magnifying glass in the Smart Search field to launch a search using a search engine that isn’t your default, or to select from a list of previous searches.
Access Your Favorite Websites
Safari makes it easy to get to your favorite and most-used websites quickly and easily. When you open a new tab in Safari, you’ll see sites you’ve designated as favorites under the Favorites heading. Below that, you’ll see icons for sites you visit often under Frequently Visited. To add a website as a favorite:
Show the Web Page’s Title
Safari has a clean, streamlined look, and by default doesn’t show the title of the web page you’re visiting. If you want to see the title of the web page:
Avoid Duplicate Tabs to Reduce Screen Clutter
Many users end up opening a lot of tabs when they’re writing, researching, shopping, or browsing on the web. Safari has a handy feature to keep you from opening the same tab multiple times in a browsing session. Here’s how to direct Safari to send you to the existing open tab instead of opening a new tab:
Watch Videos in a Floating Window
If you’d like to watch a video while you’re working, browsing, or doing something else online, Safari’s Picture in Picture feature makes it possible.
Use Safari Reader View for Distraction-Free Reading
Safari has a quick and handy feature called Reader View that lets you strip away ads and formatting, leaving only a clean text interface to read. To get to Reader View:
Learn as You Go With Safari’s Look Up Feature
If you’re confused about something as you’re browsing online, Safari is there to help you find a definition, get Wikipedia information, or see news stories about a topic. To use Look Up:
Go Back to Your Previous Safari Workspace
Like most browsers, when you close out for the day and open up the next morning, you’ll get a clean browsing slate. But if you have tabs you use every day, save time by automatically opening up to your previous tab situation so you can start right from where you left off.
