Share Web Pages from Safari
In previous versions of Safari, you could
email a link to a web page by pressing -Shift-I. This command doesn’t show up
in the browser on Mountain Lion. However, the shortcut works, even if it isn’t
readily visible; you can see it by choosing File> Share and then pressing
the Shift key.
But that’s not the only way to share web
pages. If you choose File > Share, you’ll see three options: you can email
the page or share it via Messages or Twitter. If you decide to email the page,
Mail will, by default, email the entire page, with its full layout and all its
graphics. But you can click on the Send Web Content As menu in your message (at
the top right of the window, just above the content). Three options are
available here: Web Page, PDF or Link Only. If you need to send an actual web
page to someone, PDF might be the best bet, as the full web page might not
display correctly for Windows users.
Share
Web Pages from Safari
Share Web Pages from Keyboard
With the Share button in Safari on Mountain
Lion, you can share web pages using Twitter or Messages. There are no default
keyboard shortcuts, but you can create your own.
Open System Preferences and click the
Keyboard icon, and then the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Click Application
Shortcuts, and then click the plus-sign button (÷). Choose Safari as the
application, and enter either Twitter or Messages as the Menu Title. Enter the
keyboard shortcut you want X Control-T for Twitter and Control-M for Messages,
say and then click Add to apply the shortcut.
Quit Safari and ReLaunch it. If you click
the Share button in the toolbar, you won’t see your new shortcuts, but they
will work. You can see them by choosing File > Share.
Navigate Safari’s Auto-Complete Menu
When you type something into Safari’s new
unified address and search field, an autocomplete menu appears, containing
suggestions for the fragment you typed. That list may be really long. If you
want to choose a website from your bookmarks or browsing history, for example,
you might have to press the down arrow several times to get to that section of
suggestions.
You can speed up keyboard navigation by
holding down the X key as you press the up-arrow or down-arrow key. Doing so
will skip you quickly from section to section.
When
you type something into Safari’s new unified address and search field, an
autocomplete menu appears, containing suggestions for the fragment you typed.
View Recent Web Searches
In Safari’s combined address and search
field, there’s no longer a drop down menu showing your recent searches.
However, there are still two ways you can view the search terms you’ve recently
used.
The first method is to click in the address
and search field, or press X-L menu showing your recent searches will appear.
In the second method, look to see if the magnifying glass icon is visible at
the left of the address and search field; if so, simply click on it.
Get RSS Button Back
Safari 5 had an RSS button that appeared
whenever you landed on a website with an RSS feed. That button was a great way
to quickly subscribe to such feeds: if you clicked it, your newsreader would
open and you could
Safari 6 does not have that button, but
developer Daniel Jalkut (www.red-sweater.com) has created a free Safari
extension that replaces it. That new button appears on the toolbar; when you
come to a page that offers an RSS or Atom feed, you click it. That opens the
feed:// link, which should automatically open your favourite newsreader. The
button changes colour when you visit a website that has an RSS feed, so you
know when to click. The extension is available at bit.ly/OH2pGA. to highlight
it, and press the spacebar; a add the feed as a subscription.
Safari
5 had an RSS button that appeared whenever you landed on a website with an RSS
feed.
