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Here is a Safari Tip (or perhaps a bug?!)...

Open two different Safari windows, with one being the active window, and the other being the inactive window, and load two different sites. If you then Command-click on a link in the Inactive window, it will open a new tab in the Active window. The point being that you might expect a tab to open in the window that you are command clicking in, but instead it opens in the other window...

[robg adds: Some might consider this a bug, but I think it's a feature, and a side effect of OS X's treatment of command-clicks in background windows -- that is, that they are basically ignored by the window in which they were applied. This is how, for instance, you can change your iChat status without bringing iChat to the foreground - just Command-click on the Status line. So in Safari's case, the command-click on the background window is executed, but the results are then sent to the active window.]
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Open Safari background links in new foreground tabs
Authored by: lagroue on Apr 19, '04 02:45:23PM

I've always wanted this feature !

As Safari doesn't allow you to reorder tabs, you can't group "sub-tabs" with their parent tab, which may be lost in the middle of other tabs. They always appear at the extreme right of the window, and sometime it's hard to keep focused (I suffer from NADD...)

A work-around would be to open sub-tabs in another window, and this hint brillantly solves it !

Thanks !



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Open Safari background links in new foreground tabs
Authored by: cueball on Apr 20, '04 02:22:05AM

This isn't really even an OS X hint - the command key has had this effect (at least as far back as System 7.5). You can use it to drag windows etc - the effect is simply that a cmd-click doesn't provide focus to a target in the background - the action will be performed, but the currently active window/dialog/etc. retains its active state.



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How to open BG links in the same tab
Authored by: MJCube on Jun 10, '04 10:09:28AM
Yesterday I discovered a workaround to this "bug": You can open a link in the current tab in an inactive Safari window if you take care to release the Command key before the mouse button. It's only the mouse-down that requires the Command key to leave the window in the background. So it's one click that feels like 4 steps: Press Command, press mouse, release Command, release mouse.

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Open Safari background links in new foreground tabs
Authored by: bartvb on Jul 11, '09 02:37:04PM

This is a pretty old hint and it seems like this was a bug after all. No longer works in recent versions of Safari (just tested it on version 4).



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