Safari browser-how to keep tabs all in one window

How do I keep the tabs all in one window like you do with the Opera browser. It's the one thing keeping me from using Safari. I asked this question about one year ago and I tried something but it didn't work and then it caused problems with my Desktop and with other functions of my computer. Since then, I have updated the operating system (10.6.8) and the Safari browser 5.0.5.


Is there an easy way of doing that? I often have 30 or more tabs open at the one time and I do not like to scroll or use the arrows or whatever to see the last ones. I prefer to have them in the one window.


I am asking because I found Safari the fastest browser to use and would like to keep using it. The tabs thing though is the deal-breaker for me.

MacBook Air late 2010, 2.16 GHz 4GB RAM OS10.6.4, MacBook Air Rev C, PowerbookG4, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Nov 20, 2011 9:40 PM

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Nov 21, 2011 1:34 AM in response to applecore_eater

I don't need a keyboard shortcut; I want to see all the tabs in the one window. I don't want to have to click on the arrow to see the other tabs.


For example if I open thirty tabs, I want to see all 30 tabs at the top in the one window. So I can click on any tab to open it right in the window without having to click on the arrow to get a list of tabs.

And how did you create those 30 tabs in the first place? Once upon a time you opened them one by one (cmd-t or open a link into a new tab). And they must have been layed out one next to the other. But there's a limit and that's you browser's window width. So the browser must make some convention to handling a large number of tabs. Safari shrinks the titles up to some minimum and then creates a list for the excess. I use firefox and have an addon (TabMixPlus) which allows me to have all my tabs in multiple rows, for example,


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Maybe safari has an addon to do this, maybe not. A quick google search did not turn up any safari addon for this. So if there isn't any, you'll just have to decide if you can justify safari's "faster" speed with the inconvenience of selecting some of the tabs from a list.

Nov 20, 2011 11:24 PM in response to X423424X

I don't need a keyboard shortcut; I want to see all the tabs in the one window. I don't want to have to click on the arrow to see the other tabs.


For example if I open thirty tabs, I want to see all 30 tabs at the top in the one window. So I can click on any tab to open it right in the window without having to click on the arrow to get a list of tabs.

Jan 27, 2012 9:32 AM in response to applecore_eater

Glims is a freeware addon to Safari. Once installed, you can go the the Safari preferences to find the Glims preferences. In the Tabs Misc. there's an option to "Show Favicon on tab lablel", which puts the URL graphic on each open tab. There's a second setting "Set minimum tab labels size to favicon" which will alow your tabs to shrink to the size of the small graphic. This lets me get about 70 tabs open in one window in Safari 5 with a fullscreen 1920x1200 resolution monitor.

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