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<title>macosxhints.com web browser tips</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Older browser behavior changes in Google search</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>As of August 29, 2014, Google has decided to intentionally break old browsers. They say it's not a bug, it's by design &lt;a href=&quot;https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/hEVDmDw8ccU/lQb5yPSU2KgJ&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, even though Google's &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2451522?hl=en&quot;&gt;support page&lt;/a&gt; says it accepts Safari 4 as a fully supported browser. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you want Google searches to go back to the modern style, you need to change your User-Agent string. For Safari, enable the Develop Window and use an option in there that works. Internet Explorer 9 (Windows) works, for example.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I don't have an older system active at the moment to try this. It's inevitable that older software becomes obsolete, the same way older hardware does. I think the actual hint here is a reminder that if a site misbehaves, changing the user agent can be an effective troubleshooting tool.]
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<title>Open new tab in Safari on the left</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>This script opens a new Safari window if none is open, maximizes the front window if minimized, and opens a new focused tab on the left with your bookmarks, with the text caret in the address bar.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I Googled for such a script to no avail so I made it myself. Bound it to &amp;#8984;T and scope Safari in Qu&amp;#305;c&amp;#312;s&amp;#305;&amp;#617;&amp;#8564;&amp;#949;&amp;#640; (of course you're using Qu&amp;#305;c&amp;#312;s&amp;#305;&amp;#617;&amp;#8564;&amp;#949;&amp;#640;, what else?) or any other lesser hotkey application. You can still use New Tab menu item to open tabs on the right by changing the shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcuts section of System Preferences, say to &amp;#8679;&amp;#8984;T.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you open bookmarks:// you may notice a flicker when setting the focus on the first tab. It may be due to the applescript command used — if you find a better method put it in the comments.Also, I used clicking &quot;Open Location…&quot; instead of setting the &quot;AXFocused&quot; attribute because the item hierarchy changes when in full screen mode. ...</description>
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<title>Get back online at restaurants that boot you off the Wi-Fi after 30 minutes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;You’re at a fine establishment which offers delicious, free Wi-Fi in addition to delicious, for-pay food. Perhaps served in bread bowls. But like your soup, the Wi-Fi eventually dries up: Restaurants and coffee shops that want to get customers out so that new ones can come in might boot you off the Wi-Fi automatically after thirty minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But you’re not like other customers! You’re going back up to the line to buy another beverage and perhaps a scone. You &lt;em&gt;deserve&lt;/em&gt; to get back on that Wi-Fi, dagnabbit. And there’s a way. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We’ve covered &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031102075234315&quot;&gt;changing your MAC address via Terminal&lt;/a&gt; before. But now you know that you can use this trick to get back online at Panera Bread and other establishments with time-limited Wi-Fi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, get your current MAC address. You can find it in many places; one such place is System Preferences -&gt; Network -&gt; Wi-Fi -&gt; Hardware tab. But since you’re about  ...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Generate a list of Reading List URLs</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Perhaps you use Safari's Reading List feature to save various Web articles for later reading. But maybe your Reading List is so overwhelming that you'd prefer to export a simple list of URLs to keep track of—or to open in an app besides Safari.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/96353/how-to-get-reading-list-items-as-links&quot;&gt;Over at StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, Rob Mathers offers up a quick Python script to do just that. Copy Mathers's Python script into a plain text document, and name it something like &lt;code&gt;readinglist.py&lt;/code&gt;. Next, make it executable; you can use the Terminal command &lt;code&gt;chmod +x readinglist.py&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Run the script—which loops through the proper section of the ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file where those URLs are stored—and it will generate a list of the URLs in question. If you'd like to save the URLs to a file, use a command like &lt;code&gt;./readinglist.py &gt; urls.txt&lt;/code&gt; to do so.
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<title>Enable the Develop (Debug) menu in Safari 6 </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>While this isn't strictly a hint anymore, it was back in &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629&quot;&gt;2003&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090701234543632&quot;&gt;2009&lt;/a&gt;. The Safari Develop menu - formerly called the Debug menu - offers a number of nifty features for web developers. In addition, it's been greatly enhanced under Mountain Lion.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, to activate this, you no longer need to run a Terminal command; just go to Safari &gt; Preferences &gt; Advanced and check Show Develop menu in menu bar. 
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<title>Fix PDF display in browser issues </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Some users have issues displaying PDFs in their web browsers. In some cases, when clicking on a link to a PDF, they get a blank black or white page. These issues can be caused by certain PDF browser plug-ins. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Michael Cohen has written &lt;a href=&quot;http://tidbits.com/article/13724&quot;&gt;an article for TidBITS&lt;/a&gt; discussing this issue, and explaining which plug-ins to remove. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I haven't seen this issue myself, but for those having problems, this is a simple fix. It's worth noting that, over time, you may have browser plug-ins that you don't need, so it's worth having a look in ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and /Library/Internet Plug-Ins to see what's there. 
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<title>Use emoji within Safari</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Safari displays &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji&quot;&gt;emoji&lt;/a&gt; perfectly: on web pages, in tabs, and in the titlebar (if emoji are used in a page title). This makes it unique amongst the main OS X browsers: Firefox displays them in the title bar but not in tabs or on the page, while Chrome displays them in tabs but not on the page. There's a screenshot &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.keirthomas.com/blogging/use-emoji-in-safari&quot;&gt; on my blog&lt;/a&gt; where I discuss this in more detail (the blog posting is an example that can be used to test browsers).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I played around a little with encoding settings in Firefox and Chrome but couldn't fix it. Maybe others will have more luck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One issue I'm not clear about is what's required on the web backend to display emoji. UTF-16 encoding? Does anyone know? &lt;/p&gt;[&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: It even works here, with Geeklog. &amp;#128516;] 
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<title>View hidden web passwords</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Have you used your keychain to store your passwords? Do you wish there was an easy way to see what the password for a specific site is? Here are two different ways to accomplish this task without leaving your browser!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;p&gt;Both of these methods utilize the same functionality: they change the type of text box a password is entered into from a &quot;password&quot; box (masked with asterisks or •) to a &quot;text&quot; box, displaying its contents.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;p&gt;The first method can be done in Safari or Chrome (since they're both WebKit). Right-click or Control-click on the masked password field and select &lt;b&gt;Inspect Element&lt;/b&gt;. Within the Inspector, you'll find the &lt;b&gt;input&lt;/b&gt; HTML tag is highlighted. One of the attributes there will be &lt;b&gt;type=&quot;password&quot;&lt;/b&gt;. Simply clicking on &lt;b&gt;password&lt;/b&gt; will allow you to change it; type in &lt;b&gt;text&lt;/b&gt; and, without closing the Inspector window, look at the password field to see your password revealed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The second method is even easier, and does  ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Safari 6 &amp;quot;.com&amp;quot; shortcut</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Before Safari 6, you could navigate to a URL with having to type &quot;.com&quot;. The same can be done in Safari 6 with one extra keystroke.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Entering &quot;apple&quot; in the location bar of Safari 6 will yield you Google search results for those terms. However, including a trailing slash will cause Safari to add the .com TLD to a logical location in the address, and take you to that URL. So, &quot;apple/&quot; will take you to apple.com.&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: This is fine, if you're trying to get to .com sites. If you're in a country and want to get to local sites, it won't help you. It's worth noting that you can enter any number of slashes and still get this to work.] &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: As per a comment below, here's how to make it work when you type a /. For example, if you type &quot;apple/ipod/&quot; Safari will go to www.apple.com/ipod, if you do the following. Go to System Preferences &gt; Network, click on Advanced, then DNS. In the Search Domains section, click on + and add .com. Click on  ...&lt;/Br&gt;</description>
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<title>Fixe Camino 2.1 for compatibility with web sites</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>If you use Camino 2.1.2, you'll see warnings about it being an &quot;out of date&quot; browser or that there are incompatibilities with code, even though it uses a recent version of the Firefox Gecko engine. GMail notably displays these warnings. This fix solves the problem without &quot;spoofing&quot; the user agent to look totally like Safari or Firefox.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; We want websites to know that we use Camino so they'll continue to support it. There's a simple change that will let you keep &quot;Camino&quot; as the user agent while enhancing compatibility.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ol&gt;	&lt;li&gt;In the Camino address bar, type &quot;about:config&quot;. If necessary, click OK to be allowed to edit the settings.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;In the search bar at the top of the settings list, type &quot;user&quot;. This will shorten the list.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Double-click the setting called &quot;general.useragent.extra.notfox&quot;. At this point, it probably has the value &quot;(like Firefox/3.6.28)&quot;&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Edit that value, changing it to say &quot;(like Firefox/13.0)&quot;&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Save, quit and  ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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<title>Skip through sections in Safari 6's Location bar autocomplete menu</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>In Safari 6, when you type into the omnibar - what Apple calls the &quot;address and search field&quot; - the autocomplete menu that shows suggestions for what you typed may be very long. If you want to select your bookmarks or history with the keyboard, you have to press the down arrow many times to get to them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; You can skip sections by holding down the Command key while pressing the up- or down-arrow buttons. So if you've typed something in the address and search field, you can press Command-down arrow to skip past the search engine suggestions, and then use the arrow key alone to select the item you want.
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<title>Make Google Chrome use standard print dialog</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Google introduced a custom print dialog to Chrome a few versions ago. This adds a step to saving a PDF or using any of the other standard options. Until recently, this could be disabled in chrome://flags/. They have since removed the flag, but they did leave the command line option to disable it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; A workaround is to create an AppleScript applet that launches Chrome with this option. The following script does exactly that, assuming Chrome is located in your applications folder:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:700px; height:60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;do shell script &quot;/Applications/Google&amp;#92;&amp;#92; Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google&amp;#92;&amp;#92; Chrome --args --disable-print-preview &amp;gt; /dev/null 2&amp;gt;&amp;amp;1 &amp;amp;&quot;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Open AppleScript Editor, paste the above into a new window, then save it as an application. If you run this applet to launch Chrome, you'll get a st ...</description>
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<title>Skip to top/bottom of web page</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I've been wondering when the 'skip to top' functionality that is now a staple in so many iOS apps would appear on OS X. It seems to be here now, albeit in a limited fashion. As such, this hint only seems valid for Firefox.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In order to skip to the top or bottom of a web page, simply swipe up or down on your trackpad using three fingers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: Yes, this works in Firefox, and in Opera, it moves about 4/5 of a screen.] 
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<title>Re-enable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari 6</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>It seems like Apple disabled the &quot;Press Backspace to go back a page&quot; feature in Safari 6 due to users having complained about losing text entered in text fields when they accidentally pressed the backspace key. If you liked this feature, you can enable it again using this command:&lt;pre&gt;defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back &quot;&amp;#092;U232b&quot;&lt;/pre&gt;If you ever want to disable it, there are two possibilities. The first, if you don't have any other shortcuts for Safari, is to run this command:&lt;pre&gt;defaults delete com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents&lt;/pre&gt; It will delete all Safari keyboard shortcuts. &lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The second method is a bit more time-consuming. You need to first create a keyboard shortcut for Safari, for the &quot;Back&quot; command, in the preferences. Then, if you apply the first command above, you'll be able to delete it. If you don't have a shortcut set up for the Back command before running the first command above, it won't display in the Keyboar ...&lt;/Br&gt;</description>
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<title>Set Safari's Activity window to have items collapsed by default</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>The Activity window can be extremely useful for quickly finding resources for a web page, identifying which ones failed to load, etc. However, with a lot of pages open, it often shows too much information by default, as each web page's disclosure triangle is expanded. This takes longer to view the page and requires you to scroll to find the site you want to check, if you have multiple windows or tabs open. Fortunately, Safari has a setting that controls this behavior, although it isn't accessible via the GUI.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Simply type the following in Terminal to make the Activity window open with all sites collapsed by default:&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;defaults write com.apple.Safari ActivitiesStartExpanded -boolean NO&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;Quit and relaunch Safari for this to take effect.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; To reverse the setting, simply invert the last argument:&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;defaults write com.apple.Safari ActivitiesStartExpanded -boolean YES&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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<title>Pause animated GIFs in Safari </title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I'm not certain how far back this goes, but pressing the Escape key in Safari 5.1.5 pauses animated GIFs on a web page. I have an older Mac with Safari 3.2.1 and this functionality is not present there. It would be great if there were a single command to stop these GIFs completely, but this is better than nothing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; It's possible other browsers have a similar capability, but this appears to be a Safari-specifc shortcut. Testing with iCab 4.8, a browser which uses the built-in WebKit frameworks, does not respond to the same command.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: Indeed, this does work. In Firefox, this stops the animation entirely, unlike Safari, where it only pauses the animation. In Chrome and Opera, it has no effect.] 
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<title>Browser wars poll #11: Which web browser do you use most on OS X?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>It's been a while, so here's a new poll, asking &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/polls/index.php?pid=browser11&quot;&gt;Which web browser do you use most on OS X?&lt;/a&gt; If your favorite isn't in the list, feel free to add a comment. 
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<title>Automate the download of YouTube videos in Safari 5.1</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;A YouTube video can be downloaded by Option-double-clicking its video URL in Safari's Activity window. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070420014456930&quot;&gt;this hint&lt;/a&gt;.) However, if a lot of tabs are open, the URL can be difficult to find; particularly as now it will often have no &quot;MB&quot; value in the Status column.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This script will find the YouTube video URL of the current tab in the Activity window, and attempt to download it in Safari. You will need to always have at least one download in the Downloads popover to make it available! Otherwise, the script leaves the video URL highlighted for an Option-double-click download. Run the script with your favourite app launcher.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It works by first searching the Activity window for the name of the current Safari tab, then opening the disclosure triangle to find the &quot;videoplayback&quot; URL. Then, if its available, the &quot;Show Downloads&quot; button is clicked and its popover is brought into focus. Finally, the ...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>A mouse shortcut for adding a link to the Reading List in Safari</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120219130531304</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>It is well known that one can add a link to the reading list using the link's contextual menu. However, I have found another mouse shortcut for three-button mice. It works at least in Mac OS X 10.7.3 in Safari 5.1.2 and 5.1.3.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click the link with the middle mouse button while holding the shift key and watch the link jump to your reading list.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I don't have a three-button mouse handy to test this, but if you have a programmable mouse, you should be able to make an application-specific macro to do this too. If you try this out in 10.6, please post the results in the comments.]
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<title>Change Safari's default search engine</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120213221354176</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>This hint describes a way to change one of Safari's built-in search engines (Google/Yahoo/Bing) into a custom one, without the use of any plugins/add-ons/extensions. It involves carefully editing one of Safari's binary (much like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20030514035516436&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;previous hint&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Go to &lt;em&gt;/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/&lt;/em&gt; and save the file named 'Safari' somewhere safe. If something goes wrong while editing, it's just a matter of copying that back (tested myself).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Do the same for this file &lt;em&gt;/Users/USER/Library/Safari/Configurations.plist.signed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Open 'Configurations.plist.signed' with any text editor and erase everything in it, making it blank. Save it, and then right-click to 'Get Info,' and tick the 'Locked' box.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now for the binary I recommend a hex editor, I used the free &lt;a href=&quot;http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HexFiend ...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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