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Questions tagged [safari]

Safari is Apple's web browser. This tag is for Safari in macOS. For Safari on iOS, use the mobile-safari tag, and for Safari in Windows, use the safari-windows tag.

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Safari is a web browser designed by Apple. It was first released in January 2003 for Mac OS 10.2.

This tag is for questions relating solely to Safari on macOS. For Safari in Windows, use , and for Safari in iOS, use .

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How can I make Safari show the URL when I hover over a link?

Safari 5.0.1 on OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) doesn't seem to have any status bar in which the URL of a link shows when the user moves the cursor over a link (without clicking) All other browsers I've ever used do this. Is there a user preference…
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Where can I download Safari for Windows?

This sounds like an absurd question, I know, but when I go to: http://www.apple.com/safari/ There isn't a download link! I'm sure it used to be there :-/ Here's what I see: Scrolling further just has more features. No link!
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How to clear the cache or do a hard refresh in Safari?

I am used to doing this in Windows with FireFox or IE by pressing Ctrl+F5. Is there a way to do this for Safari on a Mac?
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How do you turn off the "Try the new Safari" notification?

In OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan, when starting Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, there is an invasive, annoying, and persistent notification, titled "Try the new Safari." There is only two options in the notification. Clicking on "Later" will…
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How to prevent Command-I/Command-Shift-I from opening Mac Mail when in browser?

When in a browser (Chrome or Safari), the following keyboard shortcuts both launch the MacOS Mail app, and there doesn't seem to be any way to change or disable them. Command+I Command+Shift+I Cmd-I / ⌘-I is particularly annoying because of course…
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How can I remove an autocomplete suggestion from Safari's address bar?

A site that I visit frequently used to be located at: http://www.site.com/sub/dir But now it's just located it: http://www.site.com/sub The problem is, I visited the original location so often that Safari suggests it as the Top Hit and…
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How to skip Safari's "Do you want to allow this page to open X" dialog?

I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any setting or installed anything other than software updates, but today I've started getting this dialog when I clicked a magnet link: How do I get rid of this dialog? I've clicked okay once, but then I've clicked…
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VTDecoderXPCService taking CPU

Sometimes I notice CPU load for no reason and I see in Activity Monitor that VTDecoderXPCService is using 15-30% of CPU. After I restart Safari it is ok for some time until it happens again. Any ideas? Could be flash related? When this happens there…
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Stop Safari window closing when only pinned tabs are left

Love that Safari 9 has pinned tabs, it was the last piece that enabled me to switch from Chrome. However, I often close all tabs except the pinned tabs. However, unless I make one of the pinned tabs active and then close the other tabs it closes the…
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How to stop Safari from unzipping files after download

Safari unzips .zip and .gz files after downloading. How can I stop this behavior?
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Safari Redirecting http to (non-existent) https

Safari forces a redirect to the https version of a site I previously visited via https. However, the https site no longer works and there is no way to prevent Safari form trying to load it. Here is a related Apple Forums question, Safari keeps…
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Turn off Safari 9 blinking in web inspector?

The web inspector in Safari 9 seems to have added this new "blinking" thing which I find somewhat annoying although it can be useful. How can you turn it off and on? Here is what I mean.
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What is a quick way to duplicate a tab in Safari?

Is there a quick way or shortcut to duplicate a tab in Safari?
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How to clear browser cache for just one specific site in Mobile Safari?

I'm doing some testing on a mobile site in development and there are many updates and changes happening to this site. In order to test afresh and clear any JavaScript or what-not that is held in the cache on my iPhone I need to clear the site from…
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AppleCare engineer says Macs need weekly reboots b/c "kernel expires". What's that mean?

I'm running MacOS Sierra on a mid-2014 MacBook Pro. About once/week, Safari’s CPU usage becomes very high, and it becomes very laggy. In the last instance I had just six windows open, none of which were playing videos, but Safari’s CPU usage was…
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