Safari OS X Guide

Safari is Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's main web browser. It does a great job and is one of the best and most stable web browsers available. In this guide, i'll cover:

• Bookmarks
• Tabbed browsing
• Web clips

Bookmarks

Bookmarks in the 10.5 Leopard Safari are different than most drivers. You have both the bookmark menu and the bookmark bar to work with.

In the bookmark menu, you can have different folders for ease of use. For example, you could have a folder to a Xbox forum. In the folder, you have links to the Halo 3 forums and the Shadowrun forums. Both links come from the Xbox forums but different parts of the website. Once your bookmarks are all organized, you can go to different parts of a particular website with just a couple clicks.

The bookmark bar is just under the URL bar. Here, you can put bookmarks to your most visited website for easier access. You can reorganize them by sliding them from left to right.

You can also bookmark multiple tabs as a group. Once you open Safari, click on that bookmark and all the tabs will open like they were. This is useful if you need to shut your computer and don't feel like reopening all your websites.

Tabbed Browsing

In Safari, you can use tabs to reduce the scree clutter. Each tab is like a new window and can each have a different website. Tabs are opened by clicking on File>New tab or by pressing Command+T. The tab bar is right under the bookmark bar. You can reorganize the tabs by sliding them from left to right on the tab bar.

Web Clips

If there is a particular part of a website you check frequently, you can make a widget out of it. By clicking on the Web Clip icon (just to the right of the reload button), You can select the frame of the widget you want. Once your done, go to the dashboard and your new widget will be there. This is particularly useful for viewing a forum or live sport game scores that appear on sport coverage websites. Use your imagination and you can make very useful widgets depending on your needs.