Just Made Safari Better

I’ve been fighting myself lately to try to use Safari more on my Macbook (as opposed to Firefox).

Firefox has all of the extensions and options that I like (and am used to) but Safari is a great browser and feels a bit faster many times on my Macbook. I’ve been trying to become more used to it lately and see if it’ll do what I like and am used to on Firefox.

One thing that has been bugging me is that there is no obvious option to open links with a “_blank” target in a new tab. Ya, I could COMMAND+click it or right click it, but that gets old after a while – not to mention that I don’t always know which ones are going to do what. OK, I could look at Safari’s status bar and see what it is going to do – but I don’t always think to do that. Instead it is much easier to just set all of them to open in a new tab. That’s just how I like it (Firefox has an option for this out of the box).

A quick Google search turned up this random blog post with a quick Terminal tip to give me what I want. So props to whoever put that up, as that was the first helpful one that came up.

Basically you just exit Safari and open Terminal, then type this and hit enter:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Then you can close Terminal and open Safari and try it out. Perfect!