Hide or Remove Safari Sidebar

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Hide or Remove Safari Sidebar

A few things, re: Mavericks:

How do I disable the Safari Sidebar now in Safari 7.0? I don't like it, I find it very annoying and it takes up too much screen space. You want to travel to a new page and hit your bookmarks icon and the side bar opens. Select your website and the side bar remains open unless you undertake another mouse stroke to close it and even then it will often freeze and not close. Note: it is more than annoying because I use two 30" Cinema displays that work as one 5 foot display so I've got to travel like a mad man to the left hand side of Safari to close up the thing.

When Apple adds these types of features do they ever take customer input?

What's going to happen is that I will end up dropping Safari for SeaMonkey or Firefox.

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 3.6GHz 32G RAM 32TB HD Memory

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 10:05 AM

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olviana

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Nov 28, 2013 6:44 AM in response to TheOS2Guy

Hello,

All you have to do is use the following keyboard shorcut to open and close the sidebar:

hold down the shift key, the command key and the letter L

Good luck,

olviana

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Jasonoff

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Sep 10, 2015 7:20 PM in response to TheOS2Guy

Lol at some of the lemming replies here. Yup, this "feature" very annoying.

I would also like to DISABLE the sidebar. As a workaround, I've been running Safari in a window stretched out as large as I can make it instead of fullscreen.

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CT

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Nov 28, 2013 7:05 AM in response to TheOS2Guy

Also: View menu has "Hide Sidebar" (and "Show Sidebar").

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furrytoes

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Sep 30, 2014 3:29 AM in response to genoa

I'm very thankful for this answer and amazed that there's nothing obvious in the UI to indicate how to achieve it.

Mind bogglingly bad interface.

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Nov 25, 2014 11:35 AM in response to olviana

Thank you very much for the helpful answers to this question. The sidebar appeared on my screen after I must have hit some keys without realising, and it's been bugging me ever since. Please be assured that your advice is much appreciated by many!

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