hide tab bar

Hi mary had a little lamb,

Thanks for the follow up post!

There seems to be some confusion in what you're trying to get rid of in Safari. The tab bar is only going to show you the web pages you currently have open (if you currently have more than one website open in Safari), so it sounds like you might be talking about something different than the tab bar.

Perhaps you're talking about the Favorites bar? If so, you can close this by selecting View > Hide Favorites Bar.

Customize the Safari browser window on Mac

Cheers!

Hi mary had a little lamb,

We understand you're unable to select the Hide Tab Bar option in the View menu. Do you currently have multiple tabs open in Safari? If so, that would be why the option is unavailable/grayed out.

You'd want to close out additional tabs so you only have one tab open in Safari, and then you should be able to select the Hide Tab Bar option in the View menu.

Cheers!

Hi mary had a little lamb,

Thanks for including the images. So it's displaying icons because you have so many tabs open that there isn't enough room to display the full website name in the tab.

Now it sounds like when you quit Safari and reopen it, it restores all those previous tabs. To stop that, go to Safari up in the menu bar and select Preferences. In Preferences go to the General tab, then under the "Safari opens with" section, change that from "All windows from last session" to "A new window".

Hope this helps!

Hi mary had a little lamb,

So it sounds like your missing the "A new window" option in the Safari settings. There's one more setting you'll want to check then. Go to System Preferences > General, then towards the bottom where it has the "Close windows when quitting an app" option, make sure that is checked.

If it is currently unchecked, that would be why the "A new window" option is missing from Safari. Check the box, then go back to the Safari settings and see if the option for "A new window" becomes available in the Safari opens with section.

If the option is still missing, or you still can't get Safari to stop reopening all tabs when opening it, we'd recommend contacting Apple for assistance: Get Support

Cheers!