Wiley OS X Mavericks for Dummies (2014) by Unknown

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Figure 10-1: Safari displaying the Apple start page.

Navigating with the toolbar buttons

The buttons along the top of the window do pretty much what their names imply. From left to right, these buttons are

Back/Forward: When you open a page and move to a second page (or third or fourth), the Back button takes you to a previously visited page. Remember that you need to go back before the Forward button will work.

iCloud: iCloud automatically displays all the open web pages on your other devices. So click this button to see pages you’ve opened on other Macs or your iDevice.

Share: When you find a page of interest or a page you know you’ll want to remember, click this button (which is actually a drop-down menu) to tell Safari to remember it for you in Mavericks cool Reading List or as a Bookmark — two topics I explore further a little later in this chapter. Or send a link to it via Mail or Messages, both covered in Chapter 11, or post it on Facebook or tweet it on Twitter.

To the right of the Share button is the Address field. This is where you type web addresses, or URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), that you want to visit. Just type one and press Return to surf to that site.

Then, on the right of the Address field, are two more buttons:

Reader: Reader lets you view stories and other articles in a window optimized for easy reading by stitching together articles that are continued over multiple web pages and broken up by ads, menu bars, and other items. Reader is available only for certain pages. When it’s available, the icon turns blue, as shown in the margin; otherwise, it appears grayed out and can’t be clicked.

Downloads: Click this button to see a list of files you’ve downloaded in the past and ones currently being downloaded.

But wait — there’s more. To add other useful buttons to your toolbar, choose View⇒Customize Toolbar (or right-click anywhere on the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar from the contextual menu). The Customize Toolbar sheet drops down, and you can drag items into or out of the toolbar to create your own custom set of buttons. In Figure 10-2, for example, I added (left to right) Home, AutoFill, Zoom In/Out, New Tab, and Email (a link to this page) to my toolbar.

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