osx - How can MacOSX 10.9.1 Safari tabs be used to merge two single tabbed windows?

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2014-07
  • Bill McCloskey

    Trying to come up with a complete picture as to how to use these new Displays and Spaces, especially with some of the Applications which supposedly were designed to utilize this new paradigm.

    Noticed this some time back, but this becomes a major annoyance with the new Display and Spaces paradigm:

    Given 2 Safari windows, both with a single tab, how do I drag the tab from the one Window to join the tab of the other? This works fine in Firefox, but fails miserably with Safari. To get this to work, and this workaround isn't really useful: Use a 3rd Safari window that already has 2 open tabs as a base Safari window to get the other 2 tabs incorporated into that window's view - yuck!

    Any suggestions?

    • Answers
  • spuder

    By default safari hides the tab when it is the only one open.

    To fix:

    Open a safari window with only 1 tab
    View -> Show Tab Bar

    Now your windows will always show a tab and you can drag from one to the other without having to do the 4 tab hokey pokey.

    http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/29868/how-do-i-get-safari-5-1-to-always-display-the-tab-barenter image description here


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  • 8088

    In Safari's preferences under "General" at the bottom is an item that says:

    Open links from applications: in a new window or in a new tab in the current window

    Make sure the radio button beside new tab in a current window is selected.

    Preferences Window

  • David Pearce

    In Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal), type in and run:

    defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

    Then restart Safari.