Q: how to open a new tab in safari

to open a new tab "file >new tab"

copy and paste

command+c

command+v

here is a list of apple keyboard shortcuts: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

Command + T on your keyboard opens a new tab or from the Safari menu bar click File > New Tab

Drag your mouse over the text you want to copy then press Command C

Go to the window you want to  paste and press Command V

Is it just me, but all other browsers have an obvious button to add a new tab yet safari has not, why?

emilayyx4 wrote:

 

how do i open a new tab in safari

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4550>

how do i copy and paste a simple sentence?

<http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/>

If choose to Show Tab Bar, then there will be a + sign on the right hand end of the Tab Bar, to Create a new tab.

WazHuis wrote:

 

Is it just me, but all other browsers have an obvious button to add a new tab yet safari has not, why?

Once you have at least two tabs open then there's a plus sign on the right of the tabs that you can use to add more tabs.

Also, if you open the 'View' menu and select 'Customise Toolbar' then you have the option to add a 'New Tab' button.

Thanks.   Although really needs to be a + sign even when a single tab is open.  Just like IE.

on my Mac Book Pro running 10.7.3, if I have the Show Tab Bar selected, then the + sign shows when I have a single tab open.

Yeah that works.   Thanks for that.  Didn't realise you have to select that option after you open the first tab

if you press 'command' 'shift' 't' then you should have the option for the '+' to open a new tab even if only one tab is open on snow leopard, idk about lion. its also in 'view' 'show tab bar'

Safari DID have a + option to add a new tab, with google in the right upper corner, but with the new awful iOS, it's just another void we have to live with.  I really don't like the new OS if you couldn't tell.  I think Apple is going backwards toward the Windows ways.  I'm glad to know about the Command T option for a new tab so thanks to the one who offered that!

Thanks, use icab as an alternative browser and it has such a button in its customisable toolbar and tried looking in the same place in Safari. Do not like keyboard commands........showing my age.