Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

Some sites have popup’s that open a new browser window when browsing their site. Annoying, and you can block it. But what about web apps or sites that have legit pop up windows? You can open these windows in tabs instead!

To set this up, open Terminal and type in the following:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Hit enter and quit Safari. When restarting Safari, your windows will open in tabs instead!

To revert back, in Termina, type:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool false

Quit Safari and restart…

written by James \\ tags: safari, tabs

If you have the tab bar open in either safari or Firefox(I don’t have any other browser), you can just drag a link to a website or video (like in Youtube) to the tab bar and it opens up another tab with that website or video. You still stay in the same tab that you are in. If you use Firefox though, it immediately starts playing the video when you open another tab.

written by cmurph \\ tags: tabs, web browser

Maybe everyone knows this (and if so, I apologize for the post), but maybe it’ll help someone. When switching to Mac one thing that annoyed the hell out of me was that I couldn’t use the tab key to switch between buttons in a dialog box. It was some time before I stumbled on it: In the Keyboard and Mouse prefs, there’s an option to set Tab to switch between “all controls”. Note that unlike Linux, if you use tab to switch to another control button, and press enter, the originally selected button is pressed, not the new one that you selected with tab. To select the new button (which will be white with blue around it), press spacebar.

written by insane-dreamer \\ tags: switching, tabs