They’re taking up too much screen space and it’s extremely obnoxious and unnecessary.
With a 16 inch MacBook I shouldn’t have trouble viewing things but the url box and tab bar combined takes a literal inch of screen space.
Plus the centimetre at the top with the options combined can’t be something they actually thought people would be ok with.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.0
Is there a way to hide the tab and url bars?
Yes. Use Safari's View menu to show or hide the Favorites bar and anything else you do not wish to see. Use Customize Toolbar... to remove the Search / URL field. You will be left with nothing but the Safari page's contents, which can be a totally blank page also, if you wish.
Actually I found in settings under tabs a tab layout option and I selected compact and it combined both fields together.
the view option did not yield anything useful as favorites was already hidden and it wouldn’t allowed anything further.
Are you saying you can squish this even further without going fullscreen option?
In your case, it seems to me you would prefer to use windows over tabs.
With only one window there has to be a way to select which tab you want to open, and it you don't want all of them (or even a tab group) to appear then just open new pages in new windows instead. You can swipe back and forth between them, or cycle among open windows with a key combination.
One more thing — you don't need to display the Mac's menu bar all the time either. That setting is found in Change Dock & Menu Bar preferences on Mac - Apple Support. If you do that, you will definitely maximize your screen "real estate"... until Apple decides to build Macs with bigger screens (like they used to).
Lol what? No I don’t wish to have to search each window to find what I’m looking for again 😂
John, I showed you a picture. I found my answer, yours was not what I asked.
But I wanted to know more about your suggestion of hiding the url bar entirely so the distance of usable space between the top of the monitor and the bottom is greater.
Is there a way to hide the tab and url bars?
