Automatically open external links in tabs in Safari beta 2

Apr 28, '03 10:10:00AM

Contributed by: SJT

Normally I have Safari set to open a new window when I click a link in Mail or some other external app; otherwise the page I'm reading gets overwritten. With the advent of tabbed browsing in Safari I was really hoping for Safari automatically creating a new tab in the same window, rather than open a new one, but it didn't seem to be in the Tabs panel of the preferences.

The trick is to set the option for "Open links from applications" to "in the current window" within the General options, with tabbed browsing activated. Though it doesn't explicitly say it anywhere, when set up like this, Safari creates a new tab in the same window for each link clicked in another app.

[robg adds: This seems completely non-intuitive to me, but sure enough, it works as expected! I had left the setting at "New window" to prevent over-writing what I had already opened; changed it and now links open in tabs ... cool!]

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