Mac 101: Restore a Safari window
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2-25-2008 @ 12:20PM
Nick said...
The "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" function is also especially useful for keeping open any webpages or tabs of webpages you may not want to attend to at a present time. I've used it to keep 6 or 7 tabs of websites open on my MBP for the past two months....It's great. :)
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2-25-2008 @ 12:25PM
Chris said...
Still no support for last closed tab though...
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2-25-2008 @ 7:19PM
Bucky said...
I agree. It's very frustrating indeed.
2-25-2008 @ 12:34PM
Benjamin said...
On that note, any idea how to prevent Safari from warning me every time i want to Quit and I have a window with multiple tabs or multiple Safari windows?
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2-25-2008 @ 12:37PM
Cory Bohon said...
To have Safari stop reminding you that you are closing a window with multiple tabs: open Safari preferences and click the "tabs" tab, then un-check the box "Confirm when closing multiple pages."
2-25-2008 @ 12:38PM
Scottington said...
Safari>Preferences>Tabs
Then uncheck "confirm when closing multiple pages"
2-25-2008 @ 12:43PM
bill said...
I just use saft...
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2-25-2008 @ 12:49PM
Holmes said...
i use saft, too, but i didn't realize you had this function in safari 3. i might end up getting rid of saft, since i can't stand when that pop-up window comes up every 5 mins asking me for money.
3-10-2008 @ 9:05AM
John.B said...
@Holmes:
Or you could just register the shareware you continue to use?
2-25-2008 @ 12:57PM
Scott said...
I just use Firefox, which has had this functionality since v2.0. Safari is a decent browser, but it lags behind in functionality.
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2-25-2008 @ 1:08PM
Trimalchio said...
It seems so odd to me that they have these features but not an "open last closed tab" function, which is what i always used most in firefox. Is there some other way that you're supposed to open the last closed tab other than finding the page you were at in the history?
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2-25-2008 @ 1:20PM
Jason said...
Someone pointed this out to me recently, and it's nice and all, but holy crap, why can't you just restore the tab set from your previous session automatically? At least make it an option. Every other browser has had this for ages. I simply want my browser to return to the exact state it was in when I closed it. I have to imagine this is a very common desire amongst users.
Anyone know if this restores the history of each tab as well? That feature in Firefox is great.
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2-25-2008 @ 1:57PM
Henry said...
Agreed, i never used automator much but is there a way where every time you open safari is automatically does that? Or is that not what automator is used for (sorry i never used the automator).
2-25-2008 @ 1:46PM
Justin Eaton said...
Shift-T when using Firefox. Just had to use it myself, when I typed out an entire article, and accidentally closed the wrong tab. Freaked out, hit Shift-T, and it had saved everything in the page. Beautiful.
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2-25-2008 @ 2:16PM
Dasutin said...
does anyone know how to have safari open up a certain webpage every time you open up a new tab? I hate how it always opens up blank?
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2-25-2008 @ 2:25PM
Ralph said...
OmniWeb has had this functionality for a while; nice to see it in Safari.
http://www.omnigroup.com
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2-25-2008 @ 2:26PM
GM said...
Firefox already has "reload tab/tabs" as well as "undo closed tab"...
As a recent switcher and long-time Firefox user, can anyone tell me the benefit of using Safari over Firefox? Is is just a Mac-loyalist thing (of which I totally understand)?
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2-25-2008 @ 3:24PM
Darren said...
I am a longtime Mozilla and Firefox user on Windows and Linux but I prefer Safari on OS X.
I prefer the Safari UI and the way it handles downloads, bookmarks, and history (and its integration with Spotlight), not to mention its superior performance. But the bottom line is that Firefox/OS X is full of bugs when compared its Windows and Linux versions. The OS X version just doesn't receive nearly as much developer support as the Windows version.
A lot of Firefox's issues have to due with the legacy Carbon front end code which was inherited from the Classic Mac OS days. The bugs are being fixed and code modernized (they are switching to a Cocoa front end) but the wheels of change turn slowly over at mozilla.org.
That, and Firefox's lack of smooth pixel-level scrolling is a complete deal-breaker for me.
Every browser has its strengths and weaknesses and it's up to you to decide which strengths you prefer and which weaknesses are deal breakers.
2-25-2008 @ 2:30PM
gsol said...
I wish it would restore the window history when you reopen a window.
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2-25-2008 @ 4:51PM
TanZing said...
Just use Saft. The problem with this in Safari is that it doesn't restore the window or tab history which makes it pretty useless to me. If it did that then I'd get rid of Saft as that is pretty much the only reason I use it.
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