Snapback completely disappeared

(Hello to all from a newbie poster)

Yes Snapback is a very useful feature in Safari. It's been there for years using the apple optionS shortcut, .... and yes mine disappeared as well!!!!... which is very annoying!!!

Have tried the solution suggested by Mathias above (which suspect loads a google cookie?) and it has returned. Well, it's returned after a fashion, in that the keyboard shortcut is back and the search SnapBack is now available in History>Search Results Snapback,..... but no sign of the SnapBack icon in the Safari Tool Bar or any reference to the SnapBack icon in View>Customise Toolbar...

...which leads me to say that the problem is only partly sorted by this workaround.

Bill, welcome to Apple Discussions!

What you mean is/was page snapback. That was removed by Apple in Safari 4 (see also http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2034824&tstart=0), so only search snapback is available.

Well, FWIW: here the Snapback button came back when, in Google [images search], I clicked on one of the o's in the Google logo (bottom of the search page) instead of 'Next' or on a page #.
I'll keep you posted…

Thanks, Matthias. It took a bit of exploring Google before I discovered the link and for people who are also searching for it: it is only visible when you go to the Google.com homepage. And then it works exactly as Matthias describes it. Snapback is back!

I too have snapback again after changing the URL to google.com
Thanks for your help.

Thanks mate. Meant search snapback.

Mine is still working OK and have got the little button icon back in the search window.

Hey thanks for the tip about using Google.com.It gave me back my SnapBack button.Now I have my HomePage set to Google.com.au (Oz) so I can just type what I'm searching for into Safaris' search bar if I want SnapBack,and I can just press the + (New tab) button if I need the local Google Oz.Great job.Thanks!

Still bad in Safari 5, although if I change search to Yahoo or Bing it works fine (I'm in the UK).

Interestingly, if you switch to Bind, search, click away, snapback, then switch to Google, search, the snap back button is there, but takes you back to the Bing search results.

It might be a Google change that causes the problem, but it's Apple's problem to keep up.

"To do this enter in the URL bar google.com, you will be redirected to your country then look for "Go to Google.com" below the search bar, click on it, and bingo, snapback is back."

Doing just this with Safari 5 worked for me. No Safari reset or computer restart necessary. Thanks a lot Rafael!

My SnapBack vanished about a year ago, and I've been missing it ever since. So it seems that Google broke it with the country-specific sites. It only works with the main Google.com site. Also, for anyone else with Safari 5, SnapBack seems to work fine (I only tried it a bit) with Bing and Yahoo!. So another solution is to use those search engines instead of Google. 😀

Update: This also fixed the problem on my PowerBook, Leopard 10.5.8, Safari 4.0.4

My SnapBack is back on both computers! 🙂 Thanks again Rafael.