Top Sites is a new feature in Safari 4

Top Sites is a new feature in Safari 4. that displays a wall of recently visited web sites and a thumbnail of each site for easy identification of those sites. As you browse the Web, Safari learns which web sites are your favorites and displays them in the Top Sites screen. One of the amazing new features of Safari 4, Top Sites makes it easy to access sites with just a few clicks.

1. Press the Top Sites button in the toolbar to display the Top Sites screen. You may see a couple of pages that you’ve recently visited. These pages become more accurate as you continue browsing the Web.

2. As you move your cursor around the screen, each site is highlighted and its title is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Click any site to display the related web page.

3. Press the Top Sites button again to display the Top Sites screen. You can also customize the sites available in the Top Sites screen by manually entering addresses that you frequently access.

4. Press the Edit button in the lower-left corner of the Top Sites screen. Each thumbnail now has an X and a pushpin button, which allow you to either remove a site or make it permanent, respectively.

5. Press the pushpin button in the upper-left corner of the AGI Training thumbnail to make it a permanent entry in the Top Sites screen.

6. In the Address bar at the top of the screen, type www.macworld.com, but don’t press Return on your keyboard. Drag the icon to the left of the address into the Top Sites window.

7. As you drag, the thumbnails in the site window move to make room for the new Top Sites entry. Release your mouse button to add the site to the Top Sites screen. The Macworld web site is automatically set as a permanent item in the Top Sites screen.

8. You can change the size and therefore the quantity of thumbnails displayed in the Top Sites screen by clicking on the Small, Medium, and Large buttons in the lower-right corner of the Top Sites screen. For now, leave them set to Medium.

9. Press the Done button in the lower-left corner of the screen to exit the editing mode of the Top Sites screen.

10. Press the Back button to return to the last viewed web page.

Tabs

Very often when browsing web sites, you’ll find that you’d like to go to a new web page, but you still want the ability to return to the web page that you are currently viewing. You certainly could open a new browser window, which gives you two completely separate windows in which to view web pages, but this method becomes clumsy and it is difficult to efficiently view multiple web pages.

Safari solves this problem by off ering tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing allows you to open multiple sites in their own individual tabs but within the same overall browser window. This allows you to quickly switch between multiple web pages but keeps those web pages organized for easy access. Let’s see how tabbed browsing works.

1. With Safari still open on your computer, type www.digitalclassroombooks.com in the Address bar and press Return on your keyboard.

2. Choose File > New Tab. A new tab is displayed with your Top Sites screen active.

3. Click the AGI Training thumbnail in the Top Sites screen to open that web page.

4. Press Command+T on your keyboard to create another tab. Type www.apple.com/macosx in the Address bar and press Return on your keyboard.

5. You now have three separate tabs below the toolbar. Each one contains a separate web site. Click the different tabs to display the different sites contained in each tab. Tabbed browsing allows you to put web sites in their own individual tab within the same browser window.

6. Tabs can be closed just as easily as they are created. Hover your cursor over one of the tabs, and you see an X on the left side of the tab. Click the X to close the tab. Repeat until there are no tabs remaining.

7. Choose Safari > Quit Safari.