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Most of you may know already that the final version of Safari introduces Auto-Tabs. An Auto-Tab is a folder of bookmarks that behaves as one bookmark -- when clicked, it will open all the URLs in the folder in separate tabs. To enable Auto-Tabs for a folder, open the Bookmark view and then find the folder you'd like to modify, and then just check the Auto-Tabs box. Once checked, the little triangle in the folder's name will become a little square, and now your folder acts like a single URL bookmark. Quite handy.

But what if you want to access just one of the URLs in your new auto-tabbed folder? To bring back the dropdown menu, just press Option key before you click on the auto-tabbed folder; you'll get the standard dropdown list of all the URLs in the folder.

[robg adds: I found that the Command key also works to display the dropdown menu.]
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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: notmatt on Jul 02, '03 02:33:58PM

The command key actually works to temporarily toggle the auto-tab setting.

If you command click a normal folder, it opens autotab style. If you command click an autotab, it opens normal-folder-style. As a result, I don't even use the actual auto-tab checkbox, which just makes command-click mean "open all in tabs" no matter what I click on. It's not that saying "is that a box or a triangle?" is a particular strain, but I've found it has saved me a couple of mistakes.

One thing I'd like (if anyone's listening) would be the option to have autotab groups open in addition to the tabs already present, rather than replacing them - this would be particularly handy for making a blog post, 'cause I could just open the front page and the posting page in addition to whatever I happen to be rambling on about.



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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: sdunn10 on Jul 03, '03 08:31:50AM

I don't have (or can't see) the option to create an 'Auto-Tab bookmark'. To open a folder in tabs I have to CTRL click to get the context menu and select 'Open in Tabs'.

From the bookmark bar, every folder has an option at the bottom to 'Open in Tabs'.

Any tricks to enable the 'Auto-Tab' feature? I'm using 1.0 v85.

Thanks,

Scott.



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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: TimS on Jul 03, '03 08:49:30AM

The check-box is visible if you go to the bookmarks menu and choose 'Show all bookmarks' (Or you could click on the bookmark icon in the Bookmarks Bar).
Once there look at the Bookmarks bar collection and there should be an additional column there entitled 'Auto-Tab'



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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: stukoch on Jul 03, '03 10:14:54AM

I also do not see this option or the column (Safari 1.0 v85)



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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: kerouassady on Jul 03, '03 10:36:33AM

Its only available in the Bookmarks Menu window, not in any of the other bookmarks folders.



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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: kerouassady on Jul 03, '03 10:46:48AM

Its available in the Bookmarks Bar folder as well.



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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: seancorfield on Jul 03, '03 09:11:11PM

I only see it in the Bookmark Bar folder view. Is there a way to enable it for Bookmark Menu folder too?

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Temporarily override Safari 1.0's auto-tab feature
Authored by: Albizia on Jul 05, '03 12:17:18AM

The other very cool thing about this hint is that if you option click it opens the link in the current tab. Command click and you open a new tab. You can also Shift + Command + click and you'll get what you set your preference to be (either to open in a new tab and select it, or in a new tab behind the current one).



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