Back/Forward. Click the Back button () to revisit the page you were just on. Keyboard shortcut: Delete, or ⌘-, or ⌘-[, or a two-finger swipe left on the trackpad. (On a Mighty Mouse, that’s a one-finger swipe.)

Once you’ve clicked , you can then click the button (or press ⌘-, or ⌘-], or a two-finger swipe to the right) to return to the page you were on before you clicked the Back button. Click and hold the or button for a drop-down list of all the Web pages you’ve visited during this online session.

Figure 12-4. To summon this toolbar-tailoring screen, choose View→Customize Toolbar. Then drag the buttons you want directly onto the address bar. There’s no way to summon text labels for these icons once they’re on the toolbar. But all offer tooltip labels that you can read by pointing to the buttons without clicking.

That pop-up menu lists the sites by name, as in “The New York Times—Breaking News, World News & Multimedia.” To view the actual addresses instead, Option-click (and hold the mouse down on) the or button.

iCloud Tabs offer a way to open whatever browser windows and tabs you had open on your other Apple gadget, like an iPhone or iPad or another Mac (running OS X Mountain Lion or later). Thanks to the miracle of iCloud syncing, the last windows and tabs you had open on that other gadget (even if the gadget is turned off) show up here. See Figure 12-5.

Share () lets you send the current Web page to the Reading List, install it as a bookmark, or send it by email; Message, Twitter, and Facebook let you send the current Web page as a text message, a tweet, or a Facebook update with a single click. See The Share Button for details.

Home. Click to bring up the Web page you’ve designated as your home page (in the Safari→Preferences→General tab).

New Tab. Creates a new tab (embedded window), described later in this chapter.

Figure 12-5. The iCloud Tabs concept is to unify your Macs and i-gadgets into one glorious, seamless Web-browsing experience. You’re reading three browser windows and tabs of weight-lifting news on your phone—why not resume on the big screen when you get home and sit down in front of your Mac? (You won’t see these tabs unless the other gadget has iOS 6 or later and the other Macs have Mountain Lion or later. And, of course, the Safari checkbox has to be turned on in System Preferences→iCloud on the Macs, or Settings→iCloud on the phone or tablet.)

History. Click to open the list of Web sites you’ve visited recently in a window—a much easier-to-navigate display than the History menu.

Bookmarks. See Bookmarks (and the Sidebar) for more on bookmarks.

Favorites Bar. Hides or shows the horizontal toolbar that lists your favorite bookmarks (the equivalent of choosing View→Favorites Bar).

AutoFill. Click this button to make Safari fill in Web order forms with your name, address, and other information. See Organizing Bookmarks in the Editor.

Zoom. You can adjust the size of a Web page’s text using these buttons. When you visit a Web site designed for Windows computers—whose text often looks too small on Mac screens—you can use these buttons to bump up the size. The keyboard shortcuts are ⌘-plus or ⌘-minus.

Open in Dashboard. This icon is the key to creating Dashboard Web clips, as described on Web Clips. Click this button, and then select the part of the page you want to widgetize. It’s the equivalent of the File→Open command in Dashboard.

Mail. Opens a new, outgoing email message in your email program. The subject line contains the name of the site you were visiting; the body contains the actual Web page—not just a link, as in the olden OS X days. You can address the message, add a comment (“Re: your comment that ‘no expert’ recommends trampolines for children”), and send it.

Print. You can add a printer icon to Safari for point-and-click paper action if you don’t want to bother with ⌘-P.

Downloads. Here’s that awesome Downloads button described on The Download Manager. (It’s available only as part of the standard toolbar; you can’t install it independently.)

Address/search bar. Yep, it’s the toolbar, where you type in the Web address you want to call up.

The Stop/Reload button is built into the toolbar, at the right end. Click the button (or Esc, or ⌘-period) to interrupt the downloading of a Web page you’ve just requested—if you’ve made a mistake, for instance.

Once a page has finished loading, the Stop button turns into a Refresh button (). Click it (or press ⌘-R) if a page doesn’t look or work quite right, or if you want to see the updated version of it (like for a breaking-news site that changes constantly). Safari re-downloads the Web page and reinterprets its text and graphics.