10.7: Safari-like navigation in the Finder

Dec 19, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: idoadam

One of the nice navigation features in many web-browsers is that a long click on the Forward and Backward buttons brings down a list of the next and previous sites in sequence so one could jump back two sites, for example.

It turns out that the Finder sports the same ability. A long click on the arrow buttons in the toolbar brings downs a menu with the previous and the next directories visited in that Finder window. This works in Mac OS X 10.7. I think I tried it with 10.6 as well as 10.4 before I upgraded to Lion and it did not work, but I am not sure.

[crarko adds: I did try it in 10.6 and it wasn't there.]

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