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About Safari

Here's a summary of what you can do with Safari. To learn more about Safari, search Safari Help and visit the Safari website.

Built-in Google search

Safari includes Google searching in the address bar. Just type what you're looking for in the search box and press Return. To return to your search results after viewing webpages, click the SnapBack button in the Google search box. To repeat a recent search, press the magnifying glass.

SnapBack as you browse

Safari includes standard ways to browse webpages, such as the Back and Forward buttons in the address bar. As you browse from a starting webpage, you can quickly return to it by clicking the SnapBack button in the address box.

Browsing with tabs

When you open a link to another webpage, you can open it in a tab in the current window instead of opening a new window. You can even open a folder of bookmarks in tabs with a single click.

Easy bookmarks

When you find a webpage that's interesting to you, you'll want to save, or "bookmark," its address. Safari provides new ways to add and organize your bookmarks.

When you bookmark a webpage, you can easily add it to the bookmarks bar or Bookmarks menu. The Bookmarks Library makes it easy to organize your bookmarks in any way you want.

The bookmarks bar (below the address bar) lets you quickly open your bookmarks. Using the Bookmarks Library, you can add folders of bookmarks to the bar, as well as individual bookmarks.

Safari also provides dynamic bookmarks, such as a history of the webpages you have visited recently. It also includes websites in your Address Book and any Rendezvous websites available on your local network.

If you have been using Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Mozilla, Safari imports your favorites from these browsers the first time you open it. You'll find folders for these bookmarks in the Bookmarks Library.

Bookmark syncing

Using iSync 1.1 and your .Mac account, you can automatically synchronize your Safari bookmarks on different computers so that you always have access to your favorite webpages.

Blocking pop-up windows

Safari can block pop-up windows so that you only see the webpages you want to see. Just choose Block Pop-up Windows from the Safari menu.

Help completing forms

Safari makes it easy to use the Internet for shopping and business. If you select options in the AutoFill pane of Safari preferences, Safari will help you complete forms and log in to secure websites.

Security where you need it

Safari supports Internet standard security features to protect you and your information. Open the Security pane of Safari preferences to select your security options.

Reset for your privacy

If you use a public computer, you can quickly clear any record of your personal information stored by Safari. Just choose Reset Safari from the Safari menu to erase the history of webpages you have visited, empty the cache, clear downloads and Google search entries, and remove cookies, saved names, passwords, or other AutoFill text.

International citizen

Safari uses Mac OS X support for Unicode so that you can view sites in different writing systems, such as Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew or Arabic, as well as English and other Roman languages.