Set New Home Page Display Status Bar
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Open a new Safari window and navigate to the web page
that you want Safari to load each time you launch the
app. Click the Safari menu (top left corner), then select
Preferences to display Safari’s preferences dialog box.1
Ensure a Safari window is open and active, i.e. the
window controls in the top left are the usual colours, and
not coloured grey. Click the View menu and select the Show
Status Bar option, which is found near the top of the menu.2
Ensure the General tab is selected and press the Set to
Current Page button. A small window may pop up
requiring confirmation; press Change Homepage to continue.
The required page address now appears in the text box above.
It’s now your default home page.2
You should now see a grey strip along the lower part of
the window. If you hover the mouse over a link, the
status bar tells you exactly where the link is headed. This is
very useful if you suspect the link takes you somewhere you
don’t want to go.Using Links.
You navigate the worldwide web in Safari by using hyperlinks or simply ‘links’. Clicking on one takes you to a new page.A link in Safari can be a piece of underlined text, a picture or a
button, or simply an area of the screen. Drag your mouse pointer
across Safari. When it’s over a link, the pointer turns into a hand.
Click there to open the linked page in your browser.If you don’t want to navigate away from the page that you’re
currently on, right-click or Ctrl-click on the link and from the pop-up
menu, choose Open in New Tab or Open in New Window. You
can then look at the new page without closing the old one.AppleUserMAGAZINE //
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