Quick Tip: Safari Double-click Tab

Written on April 01, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 13 people have commented

There are numerous ways to open a new tab in Safari. You can right click on the tab bar, use the keyboard shortcut Command + T, or use the File Menu item.

Another, less known, way is to double-click the tab bar. Double-clicking will create a new tab and highlight the address bar so you can start typing right away.

Update: Apparently (according to Simon in the comments), this is a new feature of 3.1. So if this isn’t working for you, make sure you’ve upgraded to 3.1.

Hat tip to my wife for letting me know about this one.

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#1 Simon says:
That one is actually new in 3.1, the one thing I missed in Safari.
#2 NapMan says:
How do you get Safari to display the tab bar when there is only one tab open?
#3 Josh Pigford says:
@NapMan: Go to View > Show Tab Bar
#4 ton says:
doesn’t work in 10.4.11
#5 Matt says:
What would be even better is if when you double clicked a link it opened in a new tab. Ctrl-click and right-click are fine, but double-click would be a killer.
#6 Simon says:
@Matt: Try this.
#7 Jon says:
Or, you can use IE7. Double clicking by the tab row opens a new tab there. I think they shipped it in 2006.
#8 Josh Pigford says:
@Jon: Unfortunately IE didn’t even _have_ tabs until 2006. Trust me, IE doesn’t win anything.
#9 Matt says:
Um, IE on a Mac. Yeah probably not.
#10 kenny says:
Here’s a tip that I use ALL the time. This works in Firefox and Safari:

Just drag any link in a webpage to an empty space on the tab bar to open the link in a new tab.
#11 mer says:
you can always just do control t, thats pretty simple..
#12 Jonny says:
Here’s another tip that’s been in Safari a little while, I think:

If you’d like to turn a tab into it’s own separate window, simply click and hold on the tab, and then drag down. If you do it right, you should see a little thumbnail of whatever webpage is on that tab. Simply release, and boom, it creates a new window (with fancy OS X graphics)!

Voila!

And to Jon: Why would we use IE7 on a Mac, even if it was available? That’s just nonsense. Slowest. Browser. Ever.