It's nice this setting is available through the plist, but you can also choose 'show tab bar' from the View menu.

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The option is still there, it's just moved.

1. Open Safari
2. Don't open any tabs so just a bare window is open
3. From the View menu, choose "Show Tab Bar"

I suspect it's the same under Windows and it's much simpler than editing a preference file.

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Yeah, the option still exists, under the View menu or by Shift-Command-T

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NO,NO

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I love when people find complicated solutions for simple problems. This reminds me of when Firefox 2 came out there was a hint somewhere about turning on session restoring by going to about:config and changing some property... then someone pointed out that you just select an option in the preferences.


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I sometimes think this site should be called "Mac OS X complicated solutions for simple problems"!

I jest though... lots of clever people here, and I do find cool tips. But it *is* funny sometimes. :-)

But as someone who's been using Macs since System 7 days, the whole point is its a simple OS to operate. I wasn't one of those Mac users who said if Apple ever adopted a command line I would go to Windoze (what where they thinking), since I already used stuff like IRIX, Solarus, MkLinux and BeOS, but it's funny how people are polarized about this.... some refuse to do things the easy way, and some refuse to do things using the available BSD tools.

It's like the one button mouse. (I have a 7 button mouse)

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Yeah, there is the new "Show/Hide Tab Bar" menu item, Shirt-Command-T.

Which is a shame, because I had Shift-Command-T in the services menu for "View in Tofu", a column-based text reading program. Does anyone have any hints for reclaiming this key command for the Services menu, rather than having it attached to a menu item I'll never touch?

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Go to Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and click the + button to add a new shortcut. Make a new Shortcut for "Hide Tab Bar" and a another (separate) one for "Show Tab Bar" (they can be the same keys or different). This will free up the default shortcut.

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Ha! So it does! Shift-Option-Command-T it is for the useless command.

Many thanks!

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Wow. That was a lot of work. You like a lot of work?
defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool YES

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That's even too much work! Command-Shift-T!

It always cracks me up when all these (new) Mac users want to do everything in the terminal, or by writing a script, when they are already standard GUI options.

The best one is when people use the terminal to select certain files in a folder for deletion. All that typing! Just open the folder, Command click to select the files and press Command-Delete! There's no way anyone will convince me they can type faster than someone can select files by looking at them. And I try to use the mouse as little as possible, and I'm a fast typist.

I think it's the "look at me, I'm a power user" syndrome!

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I'd like to see you Command-click the 1,000 GIFs that start with an vowel and end with an even number in a folder of 10,000 files faster than I delete them in the command line. I'm probably even quicker than you downloading and installing A Better Finder Select to help you with that task. Scripting may look complicated and take time but it's better scalable than manual operation.

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Hmmm here is a tricky one. How do I force to open webpages in new tabs instead of new windows (ie Camino style)???? Setting up a shortcut for merge all is not an option, cause my fingers hurt from pressing it =)))))

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How do I force to open webpages in new tabs instead of new windows

Command click the link, and it will open in a new tab. You can also right click and select that option.

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