Beloved by hardcore surfers the world over, tabbed browsing is a way to keep a bunch of Web pages open simultaneously—in a single, neat window. Figure 12-12 illustrates.
Figure 12-12. Top: Set up tabbed browsing in Safari’s Preferences→Tabs
window. (For best results, turn on “When a new tab or window opens,
make it active.”) Bottom: Now, when you 
-click a link, or type an address and press
-Return or -Enter, you open a new tab, not a new window
as you ordinarily would. You can now pop from one open page to
another by clicking the tabs just under your Bookmarks bar, or close
one by clicking its 
button (or pressing -W).
Turning on tabbed browsing unlocks a whole raft of Safari shortcuts and tricks, which are just the sort of thing power surfers gulp down like Gatorade:
If there’s a certain set of Web sites you like to visit daily, put the bookmarks into one folder, using Bookmarks→Add Bookmark Folder and the Bookmarks organizer window (Figure 12-12). You can then load all of them into a single tabbed window, simply by selecting the resulting “folder” in the Bookmarks menu—or the Bookmarks bar—and choosing Open in Tabs from the submenu.
The beauty of this arrangement is that you can start reading the first Web page while all the others load into their own tabs in the background.
Tip
Click the
icon at the left end of the Bookmarks
bar. In the Bookmarks organizer, click the Bookmarks Bar item in
the left-side list. Now you can see an Auto-Click checkbox for
each listed folder.If you turn on this checkbox, you’ll be able to open all the bookmarks in that folder into tabs, all at once, merely by clicking the folder’s name in the Bookmarks bar. (If you want to summon the normal menu from the folder, just hold the mouse button down.)
A variation on a theme: When you have a bunch of pages open in tabs, you can drag the tabs across the window to rearrange the order. When you have them the way you want them, right-click a tab, and then choose Add Bookmark for These [Number] Tabs from the shortcut menu. You can save your saved tabs to the Bookmarks bar and load all those pages with one click.
If you Option-click a tab’s
button, you close all the tabs
except the one you clicked. The same thing
happens if you hold down Option and choose File→Close Other Tabs,
or if you press Option--W.If you Option-
-click a link, it opens in a separate
window, rather than a new tab. (When tabbed browsing is turned
off, just -click a link to open a new window.)If you find yourself with a bunch of separate browser windows all over your screen, you can neatly consolidate them all into one nicely tabbed Safari window by choosing Window→Merge All Windows.
If you Shift-
-click a link, Safari opens that page in a
tab behind the one you’re reading. That’s a
fantastic trick when you’re reading a Web page and see a reference
you want to set aside for reading next, but you don’t want to
interrupt whatever you’re reading now.