It’s within the Privacy preference that you limit how your data is tracked. These settings will work admirably for new users. Rather than explaining every option in this preference, I’m going to issue a single suggestion: Leave the default settings as they are. ![]() Rather, you’re simply removing its autofill entry. When you choose to remove a password, you’re not removing it from the keychain. You can remove them all by clicking Remove All, or you can select individual passwords and remove them by clicking the Remove button. It’s also within this window that you can choose to remove passwords. Waving your passwords around for all to see is a very bad idea. Once you have the password you need, disable that option immediately. Enter it, and all the passwords in this window will be exposed. You’ll be prompted for your account password. If you can’t recall a password and you need it for some other purpose (you want to enter it on your iPhone or iPad, for example), enable the Show passwords option. And if you click Edit next to the ‘Other forms’ option, you can choose to remove stored information for particular websites. Edit the contact to include the correct and complete information that autofill lacks.Ĭlick the Edit button following ‘User names and passwords’, and you can choose to remove or expose selected passwords (something we’ll look at next). Within this preference, you can disable some of these options as well as edit them.įor instance, if when autofilling a form with your contact information you find that something is wrong-it’s using an old address, say, or some information is missing-click the Edit button in this preference to open your personal contact card in the Contacts application. With the current version of Safari, this includes your contact information (name, address, and phone number), names and passwords, and other form information (a customer number, for example). ![]() I’d rather browse these tabs later.Īmong Safari’s talents is the ability to fill in Web forms with particular kinds of information. If I enabled this option, I’d routinely be taken to the linked page in an active tab. I occasionally open multiple links within a page for later browsing by using the Command-key shortcut I just mentioned. When a new tab or window opens, make it active: This preference is turned off by default and I leave it that way. I point it out simply to suggest that you learn this helpful shortcut. Tabs are a great tool for more efficient browsing.Ĭommand-click opens a link in a new tab: The meaning here is clear. You can optionally choose to have new pages never or always appear in tabs. The default Automatically setting means that Safari will make every attempt to open a new site in a tab rather than a window. This setting helps in that it determines when tabs should appear. Open pages in tabs Instead of windows: The main reason to use tabs is to avoid having multiple open windows clutter your screen. Now let’s see how you can configure those tabs with Safari’s preferences. ![]() If you’re not using tabs-Safari’s way to open and access multiple webpages within a single window-now’s the time to start. Or, if you just can’t decide, cruise around the Web for awhile, and when you find a destination you like, click the Set to Current Page button. Homepage: If you’d like Safari to open to your Facebook page or your third-cousin’s blog, just enter that address in this field and choose Homepage from the New windows open with menu. New tabs open with: The choices here match those found in the ‘New windows open with’ pop-up menu. Homepage takes you to the site entered in the Homepage field below, Empty Page displays a blank page with no Web address, Same Page displays the same page you have open in another window, and Bookmarks shows the page you’d see if you clicked the Bookmarks icon in Safari’s toolbar. If you choose Top Sites, you’ll see a grid that displays thumbnails of sites you visit frequently (or have just recently visited). By default you’re taken to Apple’s website, which is a nice bit of advertising for the company but may not be something you wish to see. New windows open with: From this pop-up menu, you choose what Safari displays when you open a new window (or one is opened for you when you first launch it). Otherwise, Safari will open with a new window. To do that, choose All windows from last session from this pop-up menu. If you like, you can have those views saved and then opened when you next launch Safari. Safari opens with: Safari under Mountain Lion remembers the tabs and windows that were open when you last quit the browser.
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