10.5: Bypass Safari's Private Browsing confirmation box
Nov 06, '07 10:10:00AM
Contributed by: antipasta
Do you dislike the confirmation dialog that appears whenever you select Private Browsing from Safari's main menu? Here's how to get rid of it, and enable/disable private browsing via a keyboard shortcut:
- In the Keyboard Shortcuts section of the Keyboard and Mouse panel of System Preferences, press the + button to add a new keyboard shortcut.
- For the application, choose Safari, and for the menu shortcut, type Private Browsing -- notice you are not typing this with the ellipsis (...) as it appears in Safari's menu.
- Choose the shortcut you would like to use to activate private browsing. Press Add.
- Quit and relaunch Safari if it's running.
Now when you use this shortcut, it will activate private browsing without the annoying pop-up confirmation. Also, there will now be two Private Browsing entries in the Safari menu: the one without the "..." at the end (and which shows your keyboard shortcut) won't trigger the popup. Enjoy!
[robg adds: This does not work in the 10.4 version of Safari 3. I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature, but it's pretty useful. Ignore this; error in testing!]
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