25 Useful Shortcuts for Safari

October 01, 2008 in Applications, Internet | 3 Comments

In most applications, there will be a bunch of shortcuts to help you boost your productivity. Especially in Mac, you will see more shortcuts than when you used Windows, it's just because Mac users are meant to be more productive and used less hand-mouse movement.

Some of the shortcuts, however, are not usually used, some are even not widely known. Today, I'd like to compile some of the useful shortcuts for Safari that you will probably use in the future, including the less-known but highly useful ones.

1 Command-Option-F Select Google Search Box
2 Option-Arrow Up/Down Scroll Up/Down with Larger Increment
3 Spacebar Scroll Down Screen
4 Shift-Spacebar Scroll Up Screen
5 Command-Click Open Link in New Tab
6 Command-Click Bookmarks Folder Open All Bookmarks in Tabs
7 Click-Hold on Back/Forward See List of Recent Pages by Name
8 Option-Click-Hold on Back/Forward See List of Recent Pages by Address
9 Command-Shift-D Bookmark Page to Bookmark Menu
10 Command-Option-B Open Bookmarks Library
11 Command-Shift-K Block Pop-Up Windows
12 Command-Comma Open Safari Preferences
13 Command-Option-E Empty Safari Cache
14 Command-L Jump to Address Bar
15 Command-Option-W Close Other Tabs
16 Command-Shift-I Mail Link to Current Page
17 Command-Shift-B Toggle Bookmarks Bar
18 Command-Slash Toggle Status Bar
19 Command-Shift-Backslash Toggle Toolbar
20 Command.+/Command.-/Command.0 Adjust Text Size
21 Command-Option-K Mark Page as SnapBack
22 Command-Option-P Navigate to Marked SnapBack
23 Command-Option-S SnapBack to Search Result
24 Command.Shift.] Select Next Tab
25 Command.Shift.[ Select Previous Tab

Oh, I forgot Command-R to reload page and Command-Q to quit Safari.

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3 Comments

07:23 AM

Holger

Try Command-I to mail the current page, not just the link..

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12:15 PM

Anurag

good... thanks for the useful shortcuts.Keep up the good work.

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01:37 AM

Felipe

Command-Shift-H go to homepage very useful

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