Safari 6: two-finger pinch to view and select Tabs.

Jul 31, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: slb

In Safari 6, and Mountain Lion, you can use a two-finger pinch to view and switch tabs.

Once you pinch in Safari (assuming multiple tabs are opened) you will get a view similar to that of Safari on iOS, and you can navigate among tabs using two-finger swipes to the right and left, arrow keys or a mouse or trackpad. This is an interesting way to preview all open tabs without having to load them fully.

You can either press Return, click the mouse or tap to select the frontmost tab, or pinch out to stay where you are. You can also close any tabs by clicking the close button in their headers or pressing Command-W while in this view.

[kirkmc adds: Interesting idea. I find all these gestures a bit hard to remember, but this one may actually become instinctive over time. Personally, I'll stick with Command-Shift-arrow key to cycle through tabs… Following the comments below, I've changed the category to 10.8. I had expected this to work across the board in Safari 6.]

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