My absolute favorite advance in web browsing technology over the past decade or so is the idea of single-window browsing, or at least of multiple tabs in a single window. Just about every browser out there now allows you to keep all the different web pages you have open in a single window as multiple [...]

Safari 3.1 was just released hours ago on both Macs and PCs, and the new features that come along with it really improve the browser! Download it from here, or simply launch Software Update from the Apple icon in the menu bar.
The most noticeable new feature for most users should be the new ability to [...]

Whenever you choose “Save File As…”(or Link As… and so forth) in Safari it opens the typical window that allows you to choose whatever folder to want to save the file by mouse. However often I want to save an Emacs or Vim configuration or script to their respected hidden folders (~/.emacs.d or ~/.vim) and [...]

Welcome to the second round in our Safari 3 vs Firefox 3 series. Round one covered speed, which is a big factor. In round two, we’re going to cover security and standards.
Both security and standards are important, and because they’re so short I decided to lump them together. Also, I’m ignoring the Windows versions of [...]

Safari and Firefox are the two largest browsers in the Mac market. They’ve also both recently released new beta versions. This is the first in a short series on the similarities and differences you can expect in the final versions of Firefox 3 and Safari 3.
It’s important to note, I went with the latest nightly [...]

Inquisitor offers spotlight-like results for searches as you type. It is the killer app that got me using Safari again.

Not only does it display search results as you type, it can also guess what your searching for. It even offers other suggestions for your search. After a single day of using this I was hooked.
Add [...]

Recently Michael wrote about dragging tabs from different browsers to each other.
In Safari, you can also drag a tab to it’s own window by pulling a tab off the tab bar as shown in the movie below.

Thanks to MacTips reader Simon Putzke for this tip.

Alcor (nickname for the developer of Quicksilver)
is
compiling a huge list of user defaults. User defaults
include things like if you want the Safari debug menu to show up, if you want the dock to [...]

Have you ever been surfing the web and thought, “Gee, I have no clue what that is, I wish I could instantly look that up without having to touch my keyboard”?. Actually, you can. Just right click (or secondary click, whatever you like to call it) the word in question and select “Look up in [...]

You probably already know that pressing Tab while in Safari, cycles through all the text fields on your current page. What you might not be aware of is that if you hold Option when pressing Tab, it will highlight the next object the site (or text field).
For example, if I hit Option + Tab while [...]