How to put the focus on the address bar, when opening a new tab in Safari?

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How to put the focus on the address bar, when opening a new tab in Safari?

Dear users, I'm using Safari 6.0.3 (8536.28.10) under OSX 10.8.3. Until recently, whenever I opened a new tab in Safari, the focus was always on the address bar, which was quite useful. However, since last week, maybe after an update (I don't know exactly), the focus of a new tab is always on the page, not the address bar. How can I go back to the previous configuration? I changed no options, it simply got sudeenly different, and it's quite annoying. Thank you for the help.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Mar 26, 2013 5:45 AM

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Linc Davis

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Mar 26, 2013 7:21 AM in response to morceg@o

From the Safari menu bar, select

Safari ▹ Preferences ▹ Extensions

If any extensions are installed, disable them and test.

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morceg@o Author

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Mar 28, 2013 4:52 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks, it worked. I had only one extension installed, Buffer, which I use for integrating my blog, Facebook, and Twitter. It's really odd, as this extension causes no trouble in my MacBook, but it is causing this "focus" trouble on my iMac. Do you know how could I solve it without giving up this useful extension?

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Linc Davis

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Mar 28, 2013 6:13 AM in response to morceg@o

You'd have to ask the developer of that extension.

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Nov 1, 2013 8:06 AM in response to Linc Davis

I turned off all extensions and the focus does not go to the address bar any more in Safari 7

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jencorti

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Nov 6, 2013 3:05 PM in response to morceg@o

I agree! Before updating recently I used to be able to open a new tab (via keyboard shortcuts), and immediately start typing in the website I wanted to visit. Now when I "command t", it waits for google (my homepage) to load and then types the back half of my typing in their search engine. I have to physically move the mouse up to the address bar to type in a website.

So annoying!!!

Jen

If anyone finds a fix please post!

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Nov 19, 2013 5:46 AM in response to morceg@o

You have to change your preferences. Go to preferences > general > New tab opens with: and set it to Empty page. Your new cmd + open tabs will now focus to the address bar.