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I'm often annoyed by the confirmation dialog that pops up in Safari 4 when I try to close a window with multiple tabs open. ("Are you sure you want to close this window?") But I don't want to turn off that message altogether (by checking its "Do not warn when closing multiple pages" box). Too often, I hit the close button by mistake when minimizing windows, so that warning is sometimes nice to have. Instead, I've discovered I can bypass that warning by holding down the Option key when clicking on the close button.
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Beware though that this closes ALL open Safari Windows, not just the one your clicking on.
Beware with multiple windows open...
This may get rid of the warning, but you also are telling it to close every open window in Safari.
As is the case throughout Mac OSX, option clicking on a window's buttons causes it to apply to ALL the open (non-minimized) windows in that application. So if you wanted to minimize all your open Finder windows, you could option click the minimize button on one of them. The same is true of items in the dock - option click one minimized window and all the minimized windows of that app will spring forward.
Close Safari window without confirmation
Holding the option key is a general tip to avoid confirmation dialogs, system-wide
Close Safari window without confirmation
Slightly different annoyance for me is closing all Safari windows but the front window. But AppleScript can do it:
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Close Safari window without confirmation
To find more of such shortcuts: press the modifier keys (Shift, Control, Option) while looking at the menus. You'll see the dots (indicating some confirmation before something happens) disappear for, for example, Private Browsing. (Just like with Restart, Shutdown and Log Out in the Apple menu.) In many applications you'll see ⌘W Close Window change into ⌥⌘W Close All Windows, just like ⌘M Minimize into ⌥⌘ Minimize All, or in Safari ⌘D Add Bookmark into ⇧⌘D Add Bookmark to Menu. And so on.
Close Safari window without confirmation
Excellent tip. Thanks!
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What I'd REALLY like is a hack that would cause the regular click of the close button to only close the frontmost tab (without issuing a warning) and the click-with-option-key to do what it does now (close all without warning). Wouldn't that be more intuitive and Mac-like?
Close Safari window without confirmation
No, it wouldn't be more Mac-like. It would be confusing.
Close Safari window without confirmation
It took me a while to discover why Safari on some Macs behaved differently to others but I think this has corrected it. |
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