Use drag and drop to make Safari's history more usable

Dec 14, '03 02:00:00AM

Contributed by: Chuck

Sometimes I want to open multiple web sites that are stored in Safari's history file. Two limitations always made this inconvenient: Page Up and Page Down do not work in the bookmarks window, and the history doesn't remember the date that the user was last looking at when the history opens in a new tab. So the process was: create a new tab, expand the date of the history I'm interested in, click the scroll bar until I see the site I want, double-click the site, rinse, repeat. Quite a lot of effort for something so simple.

Then I had an idea I thought I would try out. I created a new Safari window and displayed the history in that window. I then drag-and-dropped a site from the history window to the address field in my original window, and it loaded the site. Now my proces is: drag site to address field, hit Command-~ (to change back to the view window), hit Command-T (to create a new tab), and finally, hit Command-~ (to get back to the history window); repeat as needed. I find this much faster.

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